What a fabulous video! As a young teenager I worked for a coal merchant who had bunkers at Coundon Rd. I vividly recall the shunt on Mon/Wed/Fri usually handled by a class 25. Once the wagons were left and the engine had departed we would use a tractor to put the wagons (mostly 15t) next to the bunker we were going to empty it into. The driver of the tractor would push the wagon and I would run alongside, jumping on the handbrake at the given moment and pushing the peg in to keep the brake on. The coal merchants I can recall are V. Egan, W. Morriss, S. Porretta & Sons, Co-Op.
What a fabulous video! As a young teenager I worked for a coal merchant who had bunkers at Coundon Rd. I vividly recall the shunt on Mon/Wed/Fri usually handled by a class 25. Once the wagons were left and the engine had departed we would use a tractor to put the wagons (mostly 15t) next to the bunker we were going to empty it into. The driver of the tractor would push the wagon and I would run alongside, jumping on the handbrake at the given moment and pushing the peg in to keep the brake on.
The coal merchants I can recall are V. Egan, W. Morriss, S. Porretta & Sons, Co-Op.
😊.. really does take me back to much more happier times. Life seemed so much more simple then.
That's because it was!!
Watched this hot on the heels of part one. Brilliant
Thanks.
Tile Hill was "my" station