An industrial railway from the archives.

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One of five GECT built diesel electric locos used to ferry coal from Littleton Colliery near Cannock to the exchange sidings at Penkridge (on the main Stafford to Wolverhampton line). They were built in 1977 and the colliery, and the branch-line closed in 1993



These three pictures were taken at the point where the branch crossed the Penkridge to Huntington B road. 
The following was taken from a website called "Working Life" -
"In 1992 Littleton Colliery in Cannock, Staffordshire, was deemed a 'core' pit by the then Tory Government and would therefore escape the fate of hundreds of other doomed mines up and down the country. A year later, on 10th December 1993, Littleton was closed and 800 people lost their jobs." (http://workinglife.org.uk/littletoncollier.html).

This website has a good selection of images relating to this colliery and the people who worked there along with a history of the pit.


Here the train of empties head towards the colliery.






The colliery can be seen in the distance. 




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