Currently I have Polbrook Gurney Colliery set up, not for any reason other than I haven't enjoyed it for a while. So what better than pointing a camera at it for some new snaps? Click on the photos below for bigger versions. At the time of writing; Polbrook Gurney Colliery's next out will be at the Rochdale Model Railway Group Exhibition 11/12 April 2015 Littleborough Coach House Lodge Street, Littleborough, OL15 9AE Saturday & Sunday 10am to 4.30pm Admission - £3.00 Under 16s accompanied by an adult - Free Layouts, Refreshments, Free Car Parking Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.  |
| Glowing in the morning light like jewel, a spankingly clean ex-works 'Class 33' is captured shunting around Polbrook Gurney Colliery and halt. September 1965. The engine will have a very light weathering when I have a spare moment. This is the view along the track that eye cannot normally see from a normal viewing angle. The vogue these days it get get everything in to focus, this breaks that. |
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| D2298 on loan to the NCB trips some internal wooden wagons down the 1 in 25 grade from Polbrook Gurney Upper Colliery. September 1965. |
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| An 'Austerity' 0-6-0 tank 'Radstock' carefully works its way under one of the screens at Polbrook Gurney Colliery. Note the ancient side tipping wagons and 'Crompton' on the main line. |
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| D2298 shunts wagons between the colliery and halt sidings at Polbrook Gurney |
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| An Austerity 0-6-0 tank 'Radstock' propels a short rake of empties up the steeply graded line in to Polbrook Gurney Colliery. Note the ancient side tipping wagons |
