Скачать или смотреть Coal, Class 58s & Lost Lines – Thoresby Colliery to High Marnham, 1996

A working railway scene that no longer exists. Nottinghamshire’s Thoresby Colliery, the last deep coal mine in the county, was still in full swing, sending out loaded MGR coal trains to fuel High Marnham Power Station. In this short film, a British Rail Class 58 locomotive arrives with empty wagons, runs around its train, and heads down the short branch to Thoresby. After loading, it sets off eastwards, crossing the East Coast Main Line near Tuxford before arriving at High Marnham—both destinations now lost to history.
Filmed nearly two decades before Thoresby’s closure in 2015, this is a look at the everyday workings of coal freight trains in the 1990s. Today, the mine site has been redeveloped for housing, the power station demolished, and the Class 58s themselves withdrawn—making this footage a interesting snapshot of this type of British Rail freight operations in their final chapter.