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Its one of the three 15" Hunslets that worked at Bickershaw colliery in the 1950s.

So thats:

BICKERSHAW (HE1699)

LYON (HE1809)

BILL (HE1901)

 

They were built 1933-1938 and stayed at Bickershaw colliery until 1956-1959.

 

I do not think they have survived to this day but others have.

Here is one at Embsay, on a foggy November morning.

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Photo References:

The industrial railways of the Wigan coalfield, Part 2, North and East of Wigan by C.H.A Townley, F.D. Smith, J.A. Peden ISBN 1-870754-23-9 - BILL (D L Chatfield) on page 483.

A Lancashire Triangle, Part 2 by D.J. Sweeney ISBN 0-952-9333-22 - BICKERSHAW (B Roberts) on page 299.

 

Any further information on these locos, especially photographs, would be welcome.

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