<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Silverwood Colliery was a colliery situated between Thrybergh and Ravenfield in Yorkshire, England . Originally called Dalton Main, it was renamed after a local woodland . It was owned by Dalton Main Collieries Ltd . </P> <P> Dalton Main Collieries Limited became a public company which was floated on the London Stock Exchange in December 1899 . The purpose of the company was to buy out the business of Roundwood Colliery, purchase land at Silverwood, between Thrybergh and Ravenfield, and sink a new deep colliery there . These installations were to be connected to a boat staithe on the River Don by a railway . The first shaft commenced sinking in 1900 and coal was being worked by 1904 . </P> <P> The railway, with its own platform, which from Roundwood Colliery, became known as John Brown's Private Railway after the company which became sole owners of the Dalton Main Collieries from 1909 . There was also a line which ran from Silverwood, past Ravenfield, and down to join the existing line just north of Anston . </P>

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