Up coal train at Killamarsh West
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Up coal train at Killamarsh West
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 23 Jul 1951
View northward, towards Rotherham etc.: ex-North Midland Chesterfield etc. - Rotherham etc. Midland main line. One of the countless coal trains running over this line is headed, as usual in the 1950s, by a Stanier 8F 2-8-0: this is No. 48390 (built 1945, lasting until 5/68). (Cf. a view six years later, Image]).
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Image Location
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53.327188
Longitude
-1.330326