Storm clouds begin to clear over Linby Colliery, north of Nottingham, in the 1980s as a pair of class 20s prepares to leave the sidings with a coal train. In its heyday Linby held the NCB record for the shortest time taken to produce one million tons of coal. The colliery closed in 1988.

Location: Linby Colliery (former)

Original line: Annesley Branch (Great Northern Railway)

Photographer: Ian Dinmore

Contact photographer: Ian Dinmore

Contact editor

Date: 1984

Image number: 17302

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