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Bickershaw colliery

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Bickershaw Colliery
Bickershaw Colliery
Photo: terry almond
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Item #: 24638
Bickershaw e90;s.

Comment by: winder on 27th January 2014 at 16:20

The Rapid Load Bunker pictured here was erected during the 84/85 strike. The "liner train" as it was known consisted of 2 engines at the front and 2 at the back. in between them were the coal wagons can't remember the exact number maybe about Forty, each carrying about 35 tons of coal.
It all went to Fiddlers Ferry power station.

Comment by: No 3 Winder on 2nd March 2014 at 21:06

The locomotives used were always Class 20s two at the front and two at the rear.

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