Prototype
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.
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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