Over its lifetime the colliery worked the Wath Wood, High Hazels, Parkgate, Haigh Moor and Barnsley seams.
In the 1890s, the chairman of the colliery company was William McConnel, the owner of the Talyllyn Railway[3] and a number of other English coal mines.
The following year Tinsley Park Collier Company made an offer to acquire J. and G. Wells' Eckington Collieries, with pits at Holbrook, Norwood and Westthorpe.
This line had short branches to many of the big works along its route, the longest of these at over a mile, served Tinsley Park Colliery Company.
Some of this was provided in discussions on GCRS guided walks and trips along the Sheffield Canal) 2: The Selby Coalfield straddled the border of North and West Yorkshire