Pit to Power Station – a personal recollection of Coal Trains in the 1990s

Pit to Power Station – A Personal Recollection of Coal Trains in the 1990s, by Chris Booth  (Fonthill 2022)

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Focusing on the 1990s as a decade of change, all of the collieries and most of the coal fired power stations of that era have now gone. During that decade the author made a point of photographing the collieries and power stations, and the trains that moved the coal, and so amassed a large collection of photographs. Being based at Worksop he is able to give a potted history of the Depot, commencing with a brief look at the area in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. The run-up to the privatisation of the railways is followed by the new freight companies which brought changes in coal operations, before the wholesale decline in coal production. There are images taken in the Notts, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire coalfields. Brief descriptions of each colliery and power station illustrated are given, with maps to show their location, along with power station track diagrams, tables, and coal plans to show where power station coal originated. The book concludes with a few instances of locations that Worksop-based drivers served.

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