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Coal transport / Locomotive

Most collieries owned their own locomotives for transporting the coal and men around the colliery site and to the main railway lines. The first locomotives were steam which eventually gave way to diesel and then electric.

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"Pollie" "Pollie" after 65 years Diesel locomotive Workmen' train
"Pollie"
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"Pollie" after 65yrs
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Diesel Loco
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Workmen' s train
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