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| Taff Merthyr Colliery identification of principal surface features |
1. Administration offices 21. Electricity sub station
2. Explosives stores 22. South shaft winder
3. Working offices 23. Ventilation fans
4. Survey offices 24. Transfer house
5. Canteen 25. Stone extractor plant
6. Medical centre 26. Preliminary coal grading plant
7. Lamp room 27. Raw coal treatment plant
8. Pithead baths 28. Thickener tank
9. Boiler house 29. Fines separation plant
10. Colliery workshops 30. Settling tower
11. Stores 31. Storage and blending bunkers
12. Stores and office 32. Shale (waste) stockpile
13. Downcast shaft (north) headframe 33. Settling ponds
14. Water tower 34. Railway
15. Methane gas extraction plant 35. Sampler house
16. Upcast shaft (south) headframe 36. Conveyor to rail loading bunker
17. Tram tippler (disused) 37. Rail loading bunker
18. Conveyor from Trelewis Drift Mine (disused) 38. Wagon weighbridge
19. North shaft winder 39. Surge hopper
20. Compressors 40. Settling tank (disused)
Taff Merthyr Colliery Process Recording Links:
1. Raising coal and stone extraction
2. Preliminary coal grading
3. Raw coal treatment (washing)
4. Fines separation
5. Preparation of treated coal for market
6. Shale disposal and reclamation of surface water
7. Identification of principal surface features
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