Colliery Lines

Newdigate Colliery: misc_newd267

Looking from the exchange sidings towards the junction with Nuneaton being to the left and Coventry to the right circa 1982. The British Railways steel bodied mineral wagon on the left is standing on one of the exchange sidings. The ex-LMS signal next to the signal cabin has been pulled off to allow an up train through the junction. The signal might be set at clear for the day as it was standard practice on a Sunday to increase the length of block working on the line by temporarily taking out of use signal cabins when no branch traffic was being generated.

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