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Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield

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Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield Synopsis

The old Bridgewater Trustees mineral railways were to become the Central Railways of the huge Manchester Collieries concern, which was formed in March 1929. The landscape with its changing, suddenly abrupt and often fierce gradients was to be a cruel one for these colliery locomotives which were worked virtually constantly to their limits. From Worsley to Linnyshaw Colliery, east of Walkden, the average gradient had been 1 in 52 with the occasional 1 in 30 stretch! The locomotives were varied but post-war included many of the Hunslet-designed Austerity, as well as a series of ex-North Staffordshire Railway locomotives. Alan Davies, in a companion volume to his previous work on Walken Yard itself, tells the story of the locomotives that were based there, were maintained and repaired there and that sometimes finished their working lives at Walkden Yard.

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ISBN: 9781445634838
Publication date: 15th February 2014
Author: Alan Davies
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 224 pages
Series: Locomotives of the ...
Genres: Trains and railways: general interest
Mining technology and engineering