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Alex Coomber Alex Coomber on Train Siding: A rope worked incline once connected a coal mine on the clifftop at Whitehaven with the harbour below. Steam haulage in the form
of NCB...

Alex Coomber on Train Siding: A rope worked incline once connected a coal mine on the clifftop at Whitehaven with the harbour below. Steam haulage in the form
of NCB...

A rope worked incline once connected a coal mine on the clifftop at Whitehaven with the harbour below. Steam haulage in the form of NCB saddle tanks continued to operate around the harbour sidings well after the end of the main line steam in Cumbria. Here's an NCB 0-4-0ST No. 8 shunts a rake of coal wagons in 1968.