Bargoed Colliery "Buckets"

This photo shows (centre right) the buckets that I mentioned earlier in the blog. It only shows two going through the coal yard but there were many others that traveled right over the main road reminiscent of a Swiss Alp ski lift.

The photos below are after the colliery site reclamation scheme got under way but are here to show the distance that the buckets traveled from the colliery to the "new" tip