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From 'The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation': Roundwood staithe, photographed in 1950, was typical of several rail-fed colliery loading points on the S. & S. Y. N. Coal from both Roundwood and Silverwood (Dalton Main) collieries was loaded into barges here, on a 6 am to 2 pm shift at the rate of 5 vessels per day. The 10 ton end-tipping wagons were pushed by a steam locomotive up an incline, whence gravity took over and they were run down one by one into the covered part of the staithe, being tipped by their own momentum and pouring coal down the chute. The two collieries were connected underground, the shafts at Roundwood having been closed in 1909. Coal from Aldwarke was also shipped to barge here from the mid-1920s, as its own staithe became workable due to subsidence, containing a coal-fired cooking range and a boiler for hot water, where the keelmen's wives were able to do their laundry and baking whilst waiting to load. The wooden motor barge Reliance, owned by Waddingtons of Swinton, is seen preparing to load coal for Doncaster gasworks. Barnsley Canal Group