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Coal from Holditch Colliery.

Shortly before the closure of Holditch Colliery, Newcastle under Lyme, a pair of BR class 25 Diesel Locomotives cross Lower Milehouse Lane accelerating their train through the manually operated gates towards the centre of Newcastle. At the junction on the western side of Liverpool Road they will perform the first of two 'run round' reversals necessary to gain access to the WCML at Madeley.

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Uploaded on January 5, 2008
Taken in May 1985