Yorkshire coal for Lancashire, 1966
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Yorkshire coal for Lancashire, 1966
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: Unknown
The lights are coming on in Diggle on a mirky midwinter afternoon as a coal train emerges from Standedge Tunnel (behind the viewpoint) and heads downhill towards Manchester. The locomotive type was later known as class 40.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.568698
Longitude
-1.990902