Unbranded Mainline Blue 58013 is about to pass under Bennerley viaduct on 19th August 1996 with 6T02, 17.00 Toton to Bentinck colliery with a 42 set of MGR's.

An April 1990 view taken over the iron railings at Trelewis, where BR 37889 was waiting for access to the loading pad at Deep Navigation Colliery. Once loaded, the MGR [6C84] would work to Aberthaw Power Station. Following refurbishment in late 1987, this Class 37/7 was briefly based at Stratford as a Petroleum Sector locomotive prior to joining the Canton Trainload Coal, Power Station pool.

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Recorded at Barry Junction in May 1990, Canton Heavyweight 37799 'Sir Dyfed/County of Dyfed' was heading to Aberthaw Power Station with MGR 7C86, the 11:45 from Deep Navigation Colliery.

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British Railways Class 60 60070 'John Loudon MacAdam' with Loadhaul Grey Livery powers through Berwick-upon-Tweed with MGR coal on the 29th June 1996.

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A view taken at the site of the former Nelson & Llancaiach station in February 1992, where Class 37/5 locos 37697 & 37689 had charge of the 7C90 loaded MGR, the 17:48 Cwmbargoed to Aberthaw Power Station.

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56118 plods up the Durham coast line with MGR empties on 2 November 1989.

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56074 Kellingley Colliery near Paddock with an MGR from Healey Mills to Fiddlers Ferry. 23 October 1982.

On 05/02/93 58047 departs from Toton with MGR empties to Denby, which were always identifiable around this period by the brakevans provided for the trainman to ride in to close the crossing gates after the train had cleared them, along the branch to Denby. This was later ditched in favour of a man in a van..

47290 passes Cardiff Central with a westbound MGR service on 19th April 1993.

Trowell Junction, 7th November 1988.

37162 with a lightweight coal train of HEA's passes some of the derailed MGR wagons still waiting to be cut and removed.

47349 heading an MGR train towards Wakefield Kirkgate has been halted for 37089 to take the route towards the Midland main line at Oakenshaw on 24th June 1982.

37692 DRIFTS DOWN TOWARDS TREHARRIS FROM LOADING AT TRELEWIS. 29.7.89 .

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56083 at Gascoigne Wood with the inevitable MGR working.

56030 passing Mirfield with empty MGR from Fiddlers Ferry. 12 November 1981.

A Saturday session near Aynho Junction in mid-February 1991 and BR Coal Sector 58017 was heading to Didcot Power Station with a loaded MGR forming the 7V49 08:16 from Washwood Heath Yard, Birmingham.

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56096 joining the ECML at Marshgate Junction with an up empty MGR off the Leeds line. 3 July 1986.

58043 at Banbury with mgr empties from Didcot, 8/7/88. I then cowered in the van while one of the most dramatic storms I have experienced in this country exploded around me.

60056"William Beveridge" passes Hinksey on 19/March/1993 with a MGR bound for Didcot P.S.

58017 approaches Radley station on 19/March/1993 with a Didcot P.S. bound loaded MGR from the Midlands

58007"Drakelow Power Station" pulls out of Toton yard on 02/May/1997 with a rake of MGR empties.

Railfreight Class 37/7 37895 passes Ystrad Mynach station with the empty MGR coal hoppers forming the 7C84 07:10 Aberthaw to Deep Navigation Colliery.

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60049 passes Denchworth on 19/Nov/1998 with a Didcot P.S. to Avonmouth with MGR empties

The 7C82 09:05 Tower Colliery to Aberthaw Power Station had just commenced its journey when recorded in the care of 37704 in late March 1991.

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56023 nearing Saddleworth on one of several Healey Mills - Fiddlers Ferry MGRs on Sunday 19 June 1983.

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58047 passes Codnor Park on 10/July/1991 with a southbound MGR

Class 50 locomotive number 50 021 is seen on an empty MGR working having just left Fiddlers Ferry Power Station.

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With a train of loaded HAA hoppers of coal in tow, [tripped from Mill Pit Colliery earlier in the day], BR Class 56 56080 commences the journey eastbound with 6Z32, the 18:25 Briton Ferry to Didcot Power Station.

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Eleven years on from previous shot sees 56117 passing Milford junction with a loaded MGR on 4/3/00.

A once typical early evening scene at Saltley, Birmingham where Railfreight Class 58 58013 was passing with a train of discharged HAA coal hoppers being returned from Didcot Power Station. In the distance, a Class 31 can be seen banking a loaded MGR that was about to commence the climb to Bordesley Junction, while en route to Didcot.

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The last thing you need when you have a line of washing is a pair of class 31's idling next to it. The train would wait whilst the crossing gates at Coxbench Station were opened then trundle through until the brake van was clear, the guard would then close them and the train would proceed to the next set of gates. Coxbench station closed 01/06/1930 therefore it had been a private house for some time, I suspect today a garden on one side of a live railway and the house on the other would not be looked upon with great joy by H&S.

31261 and 31116 are taking an empty MGR set to Denby.

31261 was built as D5689 it entered service new to Sheffield Darnall. The loco was withdrawn 05/01/1987 and cut at Stratford depot in November 1990

31116 was built as D5534, it entered service new to March depot 11/06/1959, although older than 31216 it was not withdrawn until 04/02/2000, it was cut by T.J. Thomson (Stockton) in July 2003

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060803 56115 passes the limeworks with another MGR to Scunthorpe

58030 at Stanton Gate with loaded HMAs. 13th November 1996.

56085 between Diggle and Saddleworth on a Healey Mills - Fiddlers Ferry on Sunday 19 June 1983.

EWS 56068 was recorded at Tupton on the jouney southbound with a loaded MGR service in April 2002.

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56108 ACCELERATES AWAY FROM TOTON YARD WITH LOADED MGR, 14.5.1992.

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Working a coal train to fiddlers ferry power station, May 2002

60008 ` GYPSUM QUEEN II ` AT AVONMOUTH WITH EMPTY MGR`s WAITING TO BE LOADED. 02.05.2001.

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Registered as R778 KWS in October 2003.

3rd November 1991

56071 passing Featherstone with a loaded MGR for one of the West Yorkshire power stations

Class 56 56096 departs Brodsworth Colliery with a loaded MGR to Thorpe Marsh Power Station on 15th June 1990. Brodsworth Colliery was closed by British Coal on September 7th 1990. The surface plant was demolished in 1991. Photo: Ivan Stewart Collection.

The Midland Railway Goods Shed is behind the loco. The signal box, semaphore signalling and goods shed are long gone. This is now part of the Robin Hood Line.