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In 1910 the Billingsley Colliery Company was formed to buy the colliery. At the time the Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News reported that the new company was ‘about to lay down a line of railway to connect its mineral property with the Severn Valley Line at Eardington’. In the event, the route of the line joined the existing Kinlet Railway, connecting to the Severn Valley Railway via the same [[Kinlet and Billingsley Sidings signal box | sidings]] as Kinlet Colliery.
In 1915 the colliery was sold to the Highley Mining Company. Mining was nationalised during the First World War and while under government control, wages, hours and safety improved. By 1921 around 250 were employed at Billingsley. Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s decision to return the mines to their original owners in 1921, with the likely reversal of these benefits, brought about a miners’ strike. During that strike, Billingsley Colliery closed. ==Gallery==<gallery>File:Colliery5 Robert Evans.jpg | The overhead tramway at AlveleyFile:Colliery1 Robert Evans.jpg | Tramway machineryFile:Colliery2 Robert Evans.jpg | Loading a tramFile:Colliery3 Robert Evans.jpg | Two tramsFile:Colliery6 Robert Evans.jpg | The river bridge and tramway.File:Colliery4 Robert Evans.jpg | Miners at Alveley</gallery>
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