Chasewater remembers end of Littleton Colliery 25 years on

IN 1993 Littleton Colliery wound its last coal and in early 1994 the final coal train ran, bringing an end to deep mining in the South Staffordshire Coalfield.

Twenty-five years afterwards, the anniversary was commemorated at the Chasewater Railway, with its April 6-7 Littleton Colliery Coal Train Weekend. A regular event in the railway’s