N84-1911SS
West Hallam 1984 56083 is preparing to depart on the dinner-time departure for Toton Yard with loaded HAAs full of opencast coal from the opencast site between Mapperley, Smalley and Heanor. The loaded wagons were shunted after loading under the screens into 2 sidings as a loaded train was too long for one. 56083 has picked up one part-rake and backed onto the other part-rake ready to depart. The empty wagons on the left are on the arrivals siding, unusually still with the lamp in place but I suppose this would be transferred onto the loaded train as it departs. The sleeper crossing and the catch-point at the bottom of the run-round loop are the only things left here to remind you of the railway. The track on the right originally went up to Nutbrook Sidings from where you could go on to Shipley Colliery
N84-1911SS
West Hallam 1984 56083 is preparing to depart on the dinner-time departure for Toton Yard with loaded HAAs full of opencast coal from the opencast site between Mapperley, Smalley and Heanor. The loaded wagons were shunted after loading under the screens into 2 sidings as a loaded train was too long for one. 56083 has picked up one part-rake and backed onto the other part-rake ready to depart. The empty wagons on the left are on the arrivals siding, unusually still with the lamp in place but I suppose this would be transferred onto the loaded train as it departs. The sleeper crossing and the catch-point at the bottom of the run-round loop are the only things left here to remind you of the railway. The track on the right originally went up to Nutbrook Sidings from where you could go on to Shipley Colliery