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No, the Pemberton Colliery site. Long after mining ceased, it continued as screening, washer, and rail-head.

My dad was a haulage contractor and coal merchant at that time.

Strangely, we would take a truck load of opencast-mined coal into the place, dump it into the hopper, then drive around to the loading silos (if we were lucky, otherwise hand-bail the coal from rail trucks) and take another load of coal out again!

Only one customer got their coal directly from the opencast excavations, without it passing through NCB site, that was US base at Burtonwood.