Derelict weighbridge on approach to Newbold tunnel
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Derelict weighbridge on approach to Newbold tunnel
Image: © Richard Green Taken: 15 Apr 2011
The remains of two weighbridges in the cutting approaching Newbold tunnel. The line, which served New Lount colliery, closed when the mine closed in 1968. These walls are the remains of the two weighbridges that weighed the wagons individually as they passed over the bridge. The loaded waggons pulled by the train passed by the weighbridges and into the tunnel before reversing back over them.
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