 (Dott dates the "final uprooting" of the original line to "about 1896".The usage as a modern railway continued until the closure of Fleets Colliery in 1959.Above Meadowmill, a section of the original waggonway was subsequently used as a storage siding for National Coal Board coal wagons in the 1960s; this part of the route had therefore been in railway use for about 240 years.