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Bill and Ben watch Harry Hunslet propel a short rake of empties up the 1 in 20 grade into the colliery. A good run up generally ensures success, though too much speed can result in the occasional derailment.
On cold wet days when the track is extra slippery, an additional engine is occasionally used, a popular sight much enjoyed by the drinkers in The Pedant & Armchair pub to the right. There is always much squealing on such days from the regulars as they nurse their warm half pints of flat shandy sustained with jam and pickled onion sandwiches made by ‘mother’.
Note the former private owner ‘Denaby’ coal wagon but with a British Railways numbering, this was not an uncommon sight in the olden days when money wouldn’t be wasted repainting wagons soon to be scrapped.
Meanwhile the omnipresent Bob Geeza Cat is keeping an eye on things, I wonder what he has planned?
And finally, this photo was going to be posted yesterday on Monochrome Monday, but I didn’t process the film in time which is Ilford HP5 through a 55mm Micro Nikkor on my Nikkormat which dates from the steam era.
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