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Mr. Jha said improved wagon availability and supplies to customers helped the company to bring down the coal stocks at pitheads to about 52 million tons.

Coal India's Net Profit Soars Saurabh Chaturvedi 2011

The magnificent castles and palaces of Lord Londonderry, Lord Durham and Lord Fitzwilliam were paid for out of the pitheads they could see from their attic windows.

In the Realm of Peers 2010

The Allied bombing campaign in the Ruhr was not aimed at the pitheads or production centers, but at transportation arteries that led in and out of them, all of which passed through the enormous marshaling yards of the Reichsbahn.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

The Allied bombing campaign in the Ruhr was not aimed at the pitheads or production centers, but at transportation arteries that led in and out of them, all of which passed through the enormous marshaling yards of the Reichsbahn.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

I went on at the pitheads, and, after a week or so, a miner gave me a chance to go below with him.

Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

On their left were two pitheads whose double wheels revolved rapidly in smooth silence, and the puffing engine-house and all the trucks and gear of a large ironstone mine.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

To the east rose pitheads, chimneys, and kilns, tier above tier, dim in their own mists.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

As of now, 48 million tonnes of coal are lying at the pitheads.

UPDATE 1-Coal India may miss FY11 output target as stocks pile | Reuters 2010

The Prime Minister also assured the Chief Minister that he would look into the problems afflicting the Haldia Port, and at setting up industries at pitheads of mines and formulation of a separate jute policy to boost export.

The Hindu - Front Page 2009

When the war ended, six million tons of coal were sitting at the Ruhr pitheads waiting for transportation; see Drew Middleton, “German Industry’s Fate Studied,” NYT, July 15, 1945, 40.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006