Locomotive, ‘No.31’, or 'Nineteen Fifty Four', built by Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited, Leeds, in 1955, is seen here, working, at Parkhill Colliery, near Wakefield, on 21/09/1966.
Built by Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited, Leeds, to Works No.1881, in 1955, and delivered, new, to the National Coal Board, Sharlston Colliery, New Sharlston, where it is believed to have acquired the name, 'Nineteen Fifty Four', although it was subsequently renamed, as , ‘No.31’. The locomotive was transferred, from Sharlston Colliery, to Park Hill Colliery, between April, and September 1962; and it was subsequently returned, from Park Hill Colliery, back to Sharlston Colliery, between September 1985, and March 1966. It is also believed that this locomotive may have spent a very brief time, on-loan, at St. John’s Colliery, on, or about August 1966; (Parkhill Colliery, and St. John’s Colliery having been connected by a common link-line). Following its return back from St. John’s Colliery, the locomotive was to remain at Park Hill Colliery, until it scrapped, on-site, there, by Wakefield Metal Traders Ltd, in June 1968.
Photographs of this locomotive, whilst still at Sharlston Colliery, New Sharlston, and taken, on 27/09/1958, can be found in the separate album that I have set up for that colliery.
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