Black Country Living Museum on a boat operated by the Dudley Canal Trust. The museum's boat display consists of boats that it owns, are on loan or have mooring agreements. The museum owns: Other boats at the museum: The size of the museum site provides the opportunity to demonstrate many of the road transport exhibits which were both used and made in the Black Country. The Black Country Living Museum operates a trolleybus service on certain days, unlike the tram which is usually operated seven days a week. The route is one of the few double deck trolley bus services left in the world,
Coal mining in the Black Country was tipped off, thus forming the characteristic 'finger' spoil heaps of most small Black country pits. The rocky waste and clay was known as 'tocky'. The machine also on the rails behind the spoil wagon is an early electrical coal cutter the arm extending from the front moved through an arc and cut a corresponding arc in the coal seam which then allowed the coal to drop down in big lumps. One the shaft was established the sinking engine would either be dismantled and sold on or kept to use in an emergency. Coal mining in the Black Country Coal