Coalowner

Near-synonym: collier

The Staffordshire coalowner would benefit, because he would be saved from the competition of the Lancashire coalowner, but what would the Lancashire coalowner say if he were charged a prohibitive rate with regard to the London market?

Promoted by a group of coalowners who later joined forces with the Barry Railway, the Vale of Glamorgan [Railway] was originally planned to go right up to Tondu, but the G.W.R. succeeded in resisting any incursion beyond Coity Junction.