Welcome to the National Coal Board's Whitehead Opencast Disposal Point
British Rail National Coal Board
Open Cast Coal Engine Shed
Open cast coal is quarried rather than mined and in this case trucked to a loader oddly called an opencast disposal point
A class 09 arrives with empty wagons
Repositions the break van
Then goes back to the junction
A J94 comes off the engine shed
Moves the empty wagon to the loader
Coal arrives and is dumped on the
From the dump house coal is moved by conveyor to wagon loading house
Where its dumped into wagons
The engine shed
The diesel tank
The coal stage with ash below and a hose to water the engines
Oddly coal is delivered as the local coal is unsuited to steam locos
End of the line and managers car
Panoramas of the layout
