Birch Coppice 2 - The End of the Line. Traditional Cache
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Birch Coppice 2 - The End of the Line.
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Birch Coppice Pit 2 – The End of the Line
This is a quick cache and dash close to M42 J10.
The cache is a small clip lid container.
When at the site you will see the end of the railway line where the coal was loaded for transportation. At the side of the line you can see the spoil heap that was produced by the pit.
Behind you can see the railhead where containers are loaded and unloaded for transport to the docks for going abroad. If you walk down towards the railhead you can see the branch line that goes into TNT. This brings all the Volkeswagen parts from Germany into Birch Coppice for distribution to the UK.
Sometimes at weekends the barrier is across the road at the entrance to the estate but that is not a problem as the walk to the cache is only about 450yrds.
27th March 1987 marked the official closure date of Birch Coppice Colliery, although the final tonne of coal had been mined at the pit some time before that.Mining in the Dordon area started in 1860. Fifteen years later two Birch Coppice shafts were sunk by the company Morris & Shaw Limited.Between 1911 and 1924 another shaft was sunk to a depth 1,397 feet initially to raise coal but between 1921 and 1966 it was used for ventilation, pumping water and transporting men and materials.A major reconstruction took place at Birch Coppice Colliery in 1933. The scheme involved new steel head frames, modification of the winding engines, a new surface screening plant and a completely redesigned underground layout, working the coal by a method which was modern for its time ~ longwall advance.In 1947 Britain's coal mines were nationalised. In 1957 a second major reconstruction took place at Birch Coppice, deepening both the main shafts to a depth of 1,092 feet. Steam winding on all shafts was replaced with electrically powered winders
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