coal bin

{{Short description|Storage container for coal}}

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A coal bin, coal store or coal 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.

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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.{{cite web|title=Coal bunker|url=https://www.thefiresideshop.co.uk/coal-bunker.html|publisher=The Fireside Shop|accessdate=31 August 2016}} Coal bins or bunkers could also form an outhouse{{cite news|title=10-year-old boy locked in coal bunker for a year by parents|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9220276/10-year-old-boy-locked-in-coal-bunker-for-a-year-by-parents.html|work=Telegraph|date=22 April 2012|quote=All the houses had the old brick built coal bunkers which became redundant when central heating was installed.}} or be partly or fully underground.

Coal bins form or formed part of industrial plants,{{cite book|last1=Stracher|first1=Glenn B.|title=Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies from Around the World|date=2007|isbn=9780813741185|page=33|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJU0WOABSWIC&q=%22coal+bunker%22&pg=PA33|quote=... an undetected fire in a coal bunker at a coal-fired plant ...}} and were found on steam ships.{{cite book|last1=Maltin|first1=Tim|title=101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic|date=2012|publisher=eBookIt|isbn=9781456608040|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jT-8P9ykSkcC&q=%22coal+bunker%22&pg=PT23|quote=... in the coal bunker between no 5 and no 6 boiler rooms.}}