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Originally Posted by HM181
The week before the Miners Strike started, I was on a MGR job which entailed 2 Trips with etys to Wath and load back over the S and K.
As we came into Wath Yard we could see the fires of the Cortonwood Pit Picket Line.
The closing of Cortonwood was the start that ignited the long stuuggle to come.
When history is written Maggie T will get the blame for wrecking this countries energy supplies..
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And thousands of other jobs too.
Heavy engineering suffered greatly with places like Brush, Dougty & Dosco losing 1,000s of jobs & many of these companies suppliers also suffered job losses.
And of course 100s of railway workers jobs went too yards like Tinsley & Toton relied on coal for most of their traffic.