Harry Crofts Colliery was a small, short lived coal mine within the parish of

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, near

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. The colliery was sunk between 1924 and 1926 and closed in 1930. It was situated about two miles east of

Kiveton Park railway station Kiveton Park railway station serves Kiveton Park in South Yorkshire, England. The original station was opened by the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway in 1849, situated to the east of the level crossing and opened with the line. It was ...

and was on the north side of the main line of the L.N.E.R. almost at the junction of the west curve to the

Great Central and Midland Joint Railway The Great Central and Midland Joint Railway, formerly, before 1897, Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee, was a collection of joint railways, mainly in the Manchester and South Yorkshire areas. Description of route In the South Y ...

at Brantcliffe West Junction. This line was closed before the colliery opened and was used for wagon storage into the 1960s.

References

* ''East of Sheffield'' by Roger Milnes, "Forward", the journal of the Great Central Railway Society, No.16, March 1974. ISSNB 0-141-4488. Other information was taken from unpublished notes when researching for the article. {{coord, 53.331, -1.207, display=title, region:GB_scale:10000 Coal mines in Rotherham Coal mines in South Yorkshire 1924 establishments in England 1930 disestablishments in England Non-renewable resource companies established in 1924 Non-renewable resource companies disestablished in 1930