Deep Pit Circle

Deep Pit Circle

The two collieries on the Loop Line south of Tunstall were serviced several times a day by a circular trip that started and finished at Longport. It includied two reversals, travelled via Tunstall, shunted at either colliery, and completed the trip via Hanley and Etruria. This trip with an LMS Fowler 4F 0-6-0 visits the exchange sidings of the Hanley Deep Pit and the working is complicated because the link line from the sidings is on the up side of the line but it only directly connects to the down line. Moreover the sidings themselves are short, so the incoming train of empties has to be split at Cobridge and worked on to the colliery in two separate sections. Fitting this service in without disrupting the frequent passenger trains is difficult especially as this particular service is working at the commencement of the evening peak period.

The train of full coal wagons is taken up the Loop Line and then reverses into Etruria Up Yard. The 4F then takes two guards' vans from Etruria Down Yard to Longport Junction.

The session operates automatically, features 16 locomotives and lasts about 90 minutes.

Author: Andrew Howard (AndrewH)

Deep Pit Circle
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• licence.txt 1.47KB
• profile.dat 1.50MB
• profile.lyr 60 bytes
• profile.obs 3.30KB
• profile.rlr 36 bytes
• profile.trk 68 bytes