Rails Through Barnsley. A Photographic Journey - 2018.pdf

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A pair of

Class 37 locomotives head a train of empty merry-go-

round wagons to Dodworth Colliery in the summer of 1983. The

picture was taken from Gawber Road bridge looking back towards

Barnsley station and the leafy setting makes it hard to believe that

this is just half a mile from the town centre. The train will return

loaded with coal for the Aire Valley power stations. The last coal

train from Dodworth ran in 1987 and today the line is used only by

the Huddersfield-Penistone-Barnsley-Sheffield passenger service.

Alan Whitehouse