Empties for Thornton Junction
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Empties for Thornton Junction
Image: © roger geach Taken: 10 May 1985
An empty merry-go-round (MGR) coal service heads back to Thornton Junction yard from Longannet Power Station after discharging its load of coal. During the '70s and '80s class 20 locomotives out-based at Thornton Junction were the staple motive power on the many coal services that loaded from the mines and open cast sites in Fife. Now this line the Fife Circular has a regular passenger service but back in the 80s this was a freight only railway apart from a few morning and evening passenger service to and from Edinburgh.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.152664
Longitude
-3.21694