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Acoal bin,coal store orcoal bunker is a storage container forcoal awaiting use or transportation. This can be either in domestic, commercial or industrial premises, or on a ship orlocomotive tender, or at a coal mine or processing plant.
Domestic coal bunkers are associated with the use of coal in open fires or for solid-fuelcentral heating. Free-standing bunkers were commonly made of wood or concrete and are currently sold in materials including plastic or galvanised metal.[1] Coal bins or bunkers could also form an outhouse[2] or be partly or fully underground.
Coal bins form or formed part ofindustrial plants,[3] and were found onsteam ships.[4]
All the houses had the old brick built coal bunkers which became redundant when central heating was installed.
... an undetected fire in a coal bunker at a coal-fired plant ...
... in the coal bunker between no 5 and no 6 boiler rooms.
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