Introduction

This tramway connected the Easthouses Extension Pit (opened 1909) to the Lingerwood Mine and Lady Victoria Pit an endless rope was employed (a cable hauled tramway). After nationalisation the National Coal Board replaced the rope in 1949 with a balanced-rope haulage system. In 1955 the cable was dispensed with and the route partly relaid, being singled and the route altered at Easthouses and Lingerwood. Between Lingerwood and the Lady Victoria Pit the standard gauge and tramway lines were reversed, afterwards the standard gauge from Lady Victoria Pit to Lingerwood Mine running to the south of the tramway. Hunslet locomotives were purchased in 1955 to operate the system. The Lady Victoria Pit's processing area was partly rebuilt and a new receiving area for coal from the tramway built.