Colliery Lines

Newdigate Colliery: misc_newd264

The third of a set of five photographs showing a rake of derailed loose coupled Newdigate Colliery wagons lying in Coventry Canal. This view shows the exchange sidings in the distance, the junction is to the right, with many Newdigate Colliery wagons on show. The photograph also shows that the unloading siding was shorter than the other siding and it was this siding that the wagons overshot. The second siding was used to stable unloaded or loaded wagons. Shunting single wagons from one siding to another would have been undertaken by employing horses which could easily handle a full wagon. If there was an incline, a second horse would hitched up in tandem to prove the additional 'horsepower'.

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