Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory as being 165,000 tons. In 1933, it was given by the same source as 260,000 tons. Railways The colliery had its own network of railway sidings, connected to the former Grand Junction Railway just north of Hamstead station. A tramway connected the pithead to a basin (since filled in) on the nearby Tame Valley Canal. World's deepest colliery At one point the mine was the deepest in the world. The experience gained by the mining engineers was put to good use in the English mining industry and their expertise was so world renown that the American Government requested assistance from the engineers that had solved many of Hamstead Colliery's problems, to establish deep coal mining in America, this enhancing the growing co-operation in science and technology between the two countries. Brickworks A brickworks was operated next to the colliery, on the opposite side of Old Walsall Road and so (from 1929) just inside Birmingham, making bricks using clay dug out in the process of making new mine tunnels. Legacy The Hamstead Miners Memorial Trust, a registered charity (number 1098711) exists to record and commemorate the mine and those who worked there. The trust erected, and maintains, a memorial on the junction of Hamstead Road and Old Walsall Road, near the former pithead. Erected in 2008, on the centenary of the disaster, it comprises a derailed tramway wagon full of coal, with a buffer-stop, and commemorative plaques. Further reading References External links Hamstead Miners Memorial Trust Coal mines in England 1876 establishments in England History of the West Midlands (county) West Bromwich