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Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield

By Alan Davies

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About the book

The old Bridgewater Trustees mineral railways were to become the Central Railways of the huge Manchester Collieries concern, which was formed in March 1929. The landscape with its changing, suddenly abrupt and often fierce gradients was to be a cruel one for these colliery locomotives which were worked virtually constantly to their limits. From Worsley to Linnyshaw Colliery, east of Walkden, the average gradient had been 1 in 52 with the occasional 1 in 30 stretch The locomotives were varied but...Show more

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ISBN

9781445634838

Publisher

Amberley Publishing

Published year

2014

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1

Original title

Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield

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Paperback

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