37239 in the sidings at Markham Main Colliery, Armthorpe, on the eastern edge of Doncaster, in the late 1980s. The wagons are FPAs with Russell 30' containers conveying house coal bound for Scotland on one of the two daily Speedlink Coal trunk trains operating from Yorkshire at that time - for final tripping to container railheads at Gartcosh, Aberdeen and Inverness.

Location: Markham Main Colliery (former)

Original line: South Yorkshire Joint Railway (Great Central Railway, Great Northern Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Midland Railway and North Eastern Railway)

Photographer: David Spaven

Contact photographer: David Spaven

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Image number: 40949

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