Raids were carried out simultaneously on Wednesday morning at three houses in Eggborough, North Yorkshire and Knottingley, West Yorkshire.

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That is the point of the National Coal Mining Museum in Overton, about 13 miles south-west of Knottingley, on the site of the former Capstone colliery.

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But Network Rail said it would be "using diversionary routes and putting trains along the lines that they don't normally run on" including a freight line between Knottingley, West Yorkshire, and Doncaster via Goole.

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