GROVE PIT

Photos by Bill Pearce

04 arrives with wagons for coal loader. Previous train bound for the loader.

15" Hunslet sorting wagons and the loader. With house coal deliver, the cart passes the canal cottages.

08 on duty. Hunslet on shed while the Y7 passes.

Operation is a set sequence with empties in and loads out. The coal is fed from a hopper within the loader building. A plan of Grove Pit is shown below.


04 arrives with wagons for coal loader.	Previous train bound for the loader.

15" Hunslet sorting wagons and the loader.	With house coal deliver, the cart passes the canal cottages.

08 on duty.	Hunslet on shed while the Y7 passes.
Operation is a set sequence with empties in and loads out. The coal is fed from a hopper within the loader building. A plan of Grove Pit is shown below.