Haulage / Transport disasters

Underground or surface tramway, tub and haulage-rope accidents.

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1 disaster.

• Silverwood Colliery Paddy Mail Disaster
  3 February 1966 · Haulage / Transport · South Yorkshire · 10 fatalities
  A runaway underground materials train collided with a man-riding train carrying miners to their shift at Silverwood Colliery, killing ten men and injuring 29 — one of the worst underground transport accidents in the South Yorkshire coalfield.