NRM Shildon
Among the many glamorous exhibits in the NRM at Shildon this narrow gauge mine locomotive, still in workaday condition, is perhaps passed unnoticed by many visitors but is a representative of thousands of similar machines that were such an essential part of the UK coal industry. Many probably still lie deep underground in the closed off workings. Reference to the Locomotion website shows it to be a product of Hudswell Clarke (a common supplier to the NCB) with buck eye couplers and 3ft gauge which was unusual - most were between 2'0' and 2'6' but this loco worked at Ellington (and has therefore worked over six miles out under the North Sea). Although Ellington used modern locomotives, including some Bo-Bo designs, it was also the last mine in the country to use ponies, which lasted until the pit's first closure in 1994. My thanks to Malcolm Chattwood for additional NCB information.
Location: NRM Shildon
Original line: National Railway Museum
Photographer: Mark Bartlett
Contact photographer: Mark Bartlett
Date: 27/11/2012
Image number: 76542
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