NCB
The pit jocko. R3 was one of the three Ruston 0-4-0 shunters employed by the NCB to shunt the colliery sidings. The engine is standing just before the weighbridge, in front of the gates over Inkersall bridleway.
Another photo of one of the shunters, this time on the north side of the gates. The picture shows the blue livery of these engines. A rare photograph of its steam predecessor is here.
An NCB 7-plank wagon in the cripple siding next to the loaded sidings. These type of wagons were used internally within the colliery.
End view of the wagon which seems to have suffered from a little rough shunting. A couple of new-looking HEA hopper wagons in the background in the loaded sidings.
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Hi Clyde,
re NCB 99 I would say this picture was took after the Midland line was shut,as if you look to the rhs of the HEA wagons you can see a big pile of coal on the GC side,if I remember right Roy Edge and myself got a lift back from Clipstone on the last train out via the Midland.
Clyde,
up date on HEA hoppers,if this picture was took before the signal box had shut,then they was the Westbury train I told you about.