Colliery Lines

Daw Mill Colliery: misc_dm127

View of British Rail Class 58 028 is seen passing the rapid loading bunker at Daw Mill Colliery. The NCB locomotive shed can be seen in the background at the centre of photograph. The British Rail Class 58 was a class of Co-Co diesel locomotives introduced in 1983 based on the American practice of modularisation. Designed for heavy freight they were built British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) at their Doncaster works. The subsequent inheritor of this class of locomotives [English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS)] withdrew them in 2002 after 20 years in service with 30 being subsequently hired abroad – four to the Netherlands, eight to Spain and twenty to France.

Roger Monk

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