Whittle class 10
NCB Whittle Colliery was located alongside the A1 road in Northumberland and connected to the ECML by a 6 mile branch line through woods and fields with a few minor road crossings.
After steam was displaced, it was worked by a fleet of ex-BR class10 shunters, most of which had additional headlights fitted at each end for working this branch in the dark.
This August 1981 view shows D4069 in the later corporate dark blue livery with a lengthy asset number applied. When the colliery was closed in 1985 it was cut up on site here.
Whittle class 10
NCB Whittle Colliery was located alongside the A1 road in Northumberland and connected to the ECML by a 6 mile branch line through woods and fields with a few minor road crossings.
After steam was displaced, it was worked by a fleet of ex-BR class10 shunters, most of which had additional headlights fitted at each end for working this branch in the dark.
This August 1981 view shows D4069 in the later corporate dark blue livery with a lengthy asset number applied. When the colliery was closed in 1985 it was cut up on site here.