Acoal bin, coal storeorcoal bunker is a storage container for coal awaiting use or transportation. This can be either in domestic, commercial or industrial premises, or on a ship or locomotive 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-fuel central 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 of industrial plants,[3] and were found on steam 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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