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==Kinlet Colliery==
[[File: Kinlet_OS.jpg|thumb|300px|right| Kinlet Colliery Railway (OS Map extract, 1888-1913 series)]]
Kinlet Colliery (3) was the most southerly of the mines in the Highley area, being located just south of Bourne Borle Brook. When built by the Highley Mining Company, the site had no road access, so the mining leases granted by the Kinlet Estate of William Lacon Childe also made provision for a railway connection. A short branch was taken off the Severn Valley railway around 1900, the route of which can be seen on the extract from the Ordnance Survey Map, 1888-1913 series. The branch was worked by a small 0-4-0ST locomotive named Kinlet. This locomotive was built by Andrew Barclay & Sons as Works No 782 of 1896, and survives as a static exhibit at the Iron Bridge Gorge Museum’s Victorian Town site.
Production at Kinlet Colliery started in the late 1890s but the mine proved difficult to work, due to basalt rock affecting the only seam to produce coal. The colliery employed around 150 men by the turn of the century, rising to around 300 by the start of the First World War, by which time the annual output was about 50,000 tons.
