This loader was closed in 1988 after the closure of the Hexham Coal Washery. It has the distinction of commissioning the country's first coal washery in 1951. A cyclone is the heart of the washing unit in a Heavy Media Washery. This loader was closed 1988 after the closure of the washery. Thus, a small gold washery was established in Weer. Other mines and a washery at Leadhills were also connected. Now all that remains is a coal washery and coal processing plant. It had a red-brick winding house, pithead baths and a coal washery. The creek also supplied water for a washery at the Underwood Colliery. Ash and waste water from the washery were flushed into the Susquehanna River. Dalkeith Colliery ceased production in December 1978, leaving only a coal washery at the site. The Hexham Coal Washery, opened in 1953, remained operating after the coal loader closed. Siding then zig-zagging forwards up the valley side to the washery. Madhuban coal washery is also under the adminstrtive control of Block II Area. The Pennsylvania Coal Company historically had a washery that discharged into the stream.