Camouflaged 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.
Here No56 (D4068) is masked by trees as it heads through the fields 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.
I had rejected this slide in favour of others taken here that day which can be found elsewhere on my Flickr site, but decided to post it anyway.
Camouflaged 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.
Here No56 (D4068) is masked by trees as it heads through the fields 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.
I had rejected this slide in favour of others taken here that day which can be found elsewhere on my Flickr site, but decided to post it anyway.