The Birmingham Coal Company was a coal mining company in the Pittsburgh Coalfield area.
[1] It operated mines along Becks Run,[2] as well as other mines south of the Monongahela River, such as the Bausman Mine and the American Mine.
It is named for Birmingham, Pennsylvania, a town which was later annexed to Pittsburgh.
Part of the company was the Birmingham Coal Company Railroad, a 3 ft 2 in (965 mm) narrow gauge railroad that ran Along 21st street.
Coal was transferred underground using a tailrope system from Spiketown to the mine entrance, and from there to the railroad on a gravity plane to the railroad.