2nd May 2016
The cramped nature of the site is much apparent in this image. Beyond the signal box, with its CCTV camera sympathetically painted to match, D1120 is stabled with a Southern Railway luggage van.
D1120 was built in 1966 by English Electric for the National Coal Board and worked at Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley, Staffordshire. The colliery was in fact the NCB's first coal mine it built, the pit being sunk in 1954 and the first coal being lifted in 1960. Producing up to 1 millions tons of coal per year it supplied the newly-built Rugeley "A" Power Station from 1963, followed by an even newer Rugeley "B" Power Station in 1972. The colliery closed in 1991, followed by the "A" power station in 1995.
D1120 was built in 1966 by English Electric for the National Coal Board and worked at Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley, Staffordshire. The colliery was in fact the NCB's first coal mine it built, the pit being sunk in 1954 and the first coal being lifted in 1960. Producing up to 1 millions tons of coal per year it supplied the newly-built Rugeley "A" Power Station from 1963, followed by an even newer Rugeley "B" Power Station in 1972. The colliery closed in 1991, followed by the "A" power station in 1995.
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Also in: Midsomer Norton, North Somerset
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