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W.J. Rumbelow Coal Merchants
W.J. Rumbelow Coal Merchants
Lyn Parkinson posted that her father worked for RUMBELOW BROS Coal Merchants at the CAMBRIDGE Depot at 52 BECHE ROAD with Herbert John Rumbelow.
In the early days of the railways, most freight wagons were of an open design, and were used to carry all manner of goods. If the load was more delicate, it was often protected with tarpaulin sheets. These wagons got progressively larger as locomotives became more powerful and demand for rail freight increased.
In 1923, the Railway Clearing House (RCH) set out standards and specifications for open wagons. 7 & 8 plank wagons were generally produced for the transport of coal and coke and they were extremely numerous. All these types of wagons were used well into the 1960s.
In 1999, model train manufacturer Hornby released the Hornby R6086 7 plank wagon with the livery of W J Rumbelow Wagon for a limmited time (1 year). It referenced the rolling stock used from the 1800s to current times.
Coal industry is fighting for its life
Coal industry is fighting for its life
Chorley Guardian
Vanessa Taylor
Thursday 18 January 1990
British Coal is fighting for its survival on the open market competing with cheap coal imports to provide fuel for the electricity board, a public inquiry heard this week.
Council for the British Coal, Mr Anthony Rumbelow, told the reopened inquiry at Chorely Town Hall into British Coal's plans for opencast mining at Ellberbeck West, Coppull, that since the last inquiry many changes has happened in the industy.
anticipated that the 1.35 Counsel for the Brit- British Coal was due to million tonnes from the ish Coal, Mr Anthony happen. That closure collieries in 1986/87 had Rumbelow, told the re- had an almost immedi- been expected to in.opened inquiry at ate effect with the loss of crease to 15 million Chorley Town Hall into 0.6 million tonnes. Since tonnes by March last British Coal's plans for then another pit at the year But with the pit opencast mining at complex closed leaving ¢losures only 0.94 million Ellerbeck West, Coppull, only one,” said Mr was being produced at that since the last in- Rumbelow. the complex. | guiry m%ny ch⩾̸lad He said that Brmgh appened in the indus- i Coal had also been hit by try. ngh cost applications for opencast He said that local He said that most of mines being refused and opencast output had de- that coal is going to pow- thrown out on appeal. clined, pits in Yorkshire er stations in Yorkshire Another problem Britand Lancashire had and was high cost coal at ish Coal faced was the closed, a new import ter- £1 .84 per gigajoule (a opening in February minal had opened at Liv- measure of energy used 1988 of an import termierpool to enable cheaper in the fuel industry). nal at Gladstone Dock, bulk coal imports and “That is a high cost Liverpool, which could the privatisation of the compared with the an- cater for bulk coal imelectricity supply indus- ticipated production ports. Up until then only try would free operators costs at Ellerbeck West small shipments had of the Fiddlers Ferry of not greater than £1.09 heen brought in but now power station to buy gj "he added. ships up to 60,000 tonnes coal from other sources Mr Rumbelow said the could berth bring coal diand only the most com- majority of the coal for rectly from Colombia petitive of British coals Fiddlers Ferry was com- and North America. was likely to be used. ing from opencast sites Mr Rumbelow, in his in Cumbria, with a small
Cheapest
Mr Rumbelow said that now more than ever British Coal had to produce coal competivitively as the privatised power stations were not oblidged to use British coal, they
opening remarks, said amount (17,000 tonnes) p . that of the four pits at from Yorkshire and the Barnsley Westside 66,000 tonnes from Staf- that now more than ever complex in Yorkshire fordshire. British Coal had to proproducing 17 million The partial closure of duce coal competitively tonnes of coal per year at the Bickershaw three as the privatised power the time of the previous colliery complex has hit stations were not obliged inquiry, two were closed coal output hard, Mr to use British coal, they within weeks. “It happened suddenly [ and was certainly not known at the time by Reports by Vanessa Taylor could now go for the cheapest on the market. “British Coal’s estimate is that the delivered cost of imported coal to Fiddler's Ferry is about £1.40 per gj. The operating costs of the deep mines in the region are Agecroft £1.40 gj, Point of Aire (North Wales) £1.53, Parkside, £1.55, Sutton Manor £1.62 and Bickershaw £2.18. The cost of working the Ellerbeck site would be, as indicated at the previous inquiry, not more than £1.09. It is self evident if there is to be competition with imported coal, opencast coal has an important role to play,” Mr Rumbelow added. Evidence has yet to be given by British Coal experts supporting opencast mining and objections from Lancashire County Council, Coppull Parish Council, Adlington Town Council, residents and the Council for the Protection of Rural England. The inquiry is not expected to end before Friday. |
Walter Rumbelow (right) and Raymond Rumbelow (left) at West Row.
Rumbelow coal yards. West Row 1997.
Letter from Walter Rumbelow
14 Pothall Rd. West Row via Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk
28/10/1952
Dear Madam,
I and my two sons are in the coal business and get a decent living, we also farm 12 acres of land, growing barley, potatoes, and sugarbeet, though I do not work much at my age.
Yrs. etc.
Walter Rumbelow
West Row via Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk
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