Coal production and rail traffic declined rapidly throughout the 1950s.

Coal delivered by rail from Newcastle's mines to Seattle fueled the growth of the Port of Seattle and attracted railroads, most notably the Great Northern Railway.

Between 1901 and 1913, for example, the Parker Run Coal and Coke Company operated a mine just east of Rivesville, shipping coal by rail and barge.

Coal containers ( called " loose boxes " or " tubs ") were soon deployed on the early canals and railways and were used for road / rail transfers ( road at the time meaning horse drawn vehicles ).

Coal mined inland of Bowen in Collinsville and other towns in the Bowen Basin is brought by rail to a deepwater pier to be loaded on bulk carriers.

From 1858, at least ten failed attempts were made to build a rail line up the Coal River.

Coal was transported by rail from the mine to a jetty at Sandon Point where it was loaded onto ships.

In September 2009 mining firm Xstrata Coal signed a deal with Freightliner Australia to haul export coal in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, commencing in late 2010 and allowing Xstrata to avoid the current incumbent rail operators.

An important rail customer was Arthur Dreyer & Sons Lumber and Coal Co. near Union Avenue bridge.

The Reading Company was created to serve as a holding company for the Reading's rail and coal subsidiaries: the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, respectively.

Coal that is mined from other regions in Botswana, such as Selebi-Phikwe, is sent by rail to Palapye.

Coal revenues also led the forging of a rail link to the Midwest, eventually reaching Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo in Ohio and Chicago, Illinois.

Coal for smelting is supplied to the city from nearby Kaiyuan to the north, located on the rail line to Kunming.

Coal is delivered by highway truck, rail, barge, collier ship or coal slurry pipeline.

Coal was brought by rail from Darlington to the terminus for road transport to destinations in South Durham and North Yorkshire.

Kłobuck also has a rail station, along Polish Coal Trunk-Line, which since 2006 has been used freight trains only.

After failed attempts by others, the Coal River and Western Railway Company established scheduled rail service along the river at the dawn of the 20th century.

Coal cars would ride up the trestles and release coal into hoppers parked under the trestles.

Coal cars at the Danville, West Virginia yard in 1974.

Some coal operators remained outside the coal pool, and for these the Reading Railroad devised a new annoyance: continuing to load coal cars with Coal & Iron Co. anthracite even beyond the Reading's allotted tonnage, then lining these loaded cars on side tracks, thus limiting the availability of empty cars for hauling the other mine operators ' output.

Coal was the principle commodity for the line during its entire existence though passenger trains and, after the late 1920s, self-propelled gas-powered passenger cars ( known as the PS & N as " Hoodlebugs ") also ran on the route until they were discontinued in 1935.

Coal cars by The Shack Community Center in the 1930s

* Coal tipple, a structure used for loading coal into railroad cars

To reach the switching yard, visitors had to walk the spiraling passageway through the miniature landscape that expanded the basement to enormous size — a landscape filled with railroad stations ; houses ; bridges ; factories ; a cliff-side gravel road that ran under a concrete arch supporting a steel railroad bridge in front of a hydroelectric dam with a generating plant beside it topped with twin round chimneys and, above and behind it on a plateau, a solitary white two-story wood frame house ; railroad crossings ; shacks ; coal companies ; a three-story brick ' Central Light And Power Company ' with a brick smoke stack that dwarfed it, cars loaded with coal from the ' Ynysybwl Coal Company ' waiting out front, and high-tension power lines running up the mountainside behind ; small town streets lined with banks and stores ; and even a careful and detailed reconstruction of the diner in Edward Hopper's famous painting Nighthawks, complete with customers, nested up against a two-story beige brick building that had beside it an equally tall red brick building, upon the wall of which was mounted a billboard for an ' East End Hardware ' store with their slogan ' Nuts To You!

Then the skiff hove into sight, just a dot of light at first against the roiling blackness and crimson streaks of the Coal Sack.

Only a dozen or so were taken by British Columbian stations, nearly all of them in 1953 at Coal Harbour.

The last 15 – 20 years has also seen Hobart's wine industry thrive as many vineyards have developed in countryside areas outside of the city in the Coal River Wine Region and D ' Entrecasteaux Channel, including Moorilla Estate at Berriedale one of the most awarded vineyards in Australia.

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

Coal mining takes place in the three mountainous regions at 40 distinct coal beds near Mesozoic basins.

* March 9 – March 11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Kentucky.

The principle was at the heart of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) in the Treaty of Paris ( 1951 ), following the " Schuman Declaration " and the later the Treaties of Rome establishing the European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the European Atomic Energy Community ( EAEC ).

* Susan Marsden, Coals to Newcastle: a History of Coal Loading at the Port of Newcastle New South Wales 1977 – 1997 2002

Coal devils are common at the coal town of Tsagaan Khad in South Gobi Province, Mongolia.

The highest elevation occurs at the south of the island, the mountain of Labua reaching 6, 950 ft. Coal and other minerals have been discovered.

* Coal production, which was at its lowest ebb.

After a brief period as medical officer for Hatfield College, Durham, and temporary work for the National Coal Board, he became a GP at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in 1977.

Franklin continued to meet the requirements of the National Service Act by working as an Assistant Research Officer at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association ( BCURA ).

Mining operations developed by Dolch at Dolchburg and by the Olmos Coal, Coke, and Oil Company at Olmos were the largest coal producers in Texas around the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

It lies at the northern edge of the Coal Region, northwest of the Poconos.

Smith worked at one of the estate's older mines, the Mearns Pit at High Littleton, part of the Somerset coalfield and the Somerset Coal Canal.

Mayo through Paintsville in Johnson County, 1914. Coal was important for Johnson County and the rest of eastern Kentucky even before the Civil War, but its development halted at the start of the war.

Cottage Point Kiosk and Boat Hire, built around 1918, is situated at Cottage Point at the entrance to Coal and Candle Creek.

Coal mining began about the start of the 20th century at Virginia City.

Coal Mine Canyon at sunset

Coal Hill is located at ( 35. 436998 ,-93. 672307 ).

In 1939 the Coal Valley High School was built at the cost of $ 70, 000 and that fall forty-six pupils were enrolled.