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"JOCK"
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 27918
Steam engine 'JOCK' at Bickershaw Colliery April 1952

Comment by: peter on 5th June 2016 at 07:59

`Jock`0-6-0
came to Bickershaw in 1946 six coupled tank engine built by Bristol firm Peckett and sons

Comment by: Stuart on 9th June 2016 at 14:16

This engine was built in 1946 and was the last loco delivered to Bickershaw Colliery before nationalisation. It spent all it's working life at Bickershaw and was scrapped at Kirkless in 1959

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