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Day: 28 February 2022

Building the Katoomba Coal Mine 1878 – 1882

Chapter Three – Building the Railway Siding. In 1882 J B North was setting up “The Shoots”, the area where the coal from his mine in the Jamison Valley would be transshipped into NSWGR rail trucks to be railed to Sydney.

Katoomba Coal & Shale Company Lease

John Britty North leases all his mines, beds, seams, measures and strata to the Company along with the right to erect and demolish plant and cut and sell any timber on the land. Dated 2/11/1881 numbered 128748.

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