Class 10 approaching
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 class 10 shunters, most of which had additional headlights fitted at each end for working this branch in the dark.
Here No56 (D4068) approaches a level crossing bringing another rake of empties back to the colliery from the BR exchange sidings at Warkworth in June 1981.
When the colliery was closed in 1985 it was cut up on site there
Class 10 approaching
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 class 10 shunters, most of which had additional headlights fitted at each end for working this branch in the dark.
Here No56 (D4068) approaches a level crossing bringing another rake of empties back to the colliery from the BR exchange sidings at Warkworth in June 1981.
When the colliery was closed in 1985 it was cut up on site there