61xxx 1964c Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy
LNER B1 4-6-0 with an Up freight passing Seafield Colliery Kirkcaldy in c1964. Seafield Colliery was in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Work on the colliery was started on 12 May 1954 and production began in 1966. Despite it being said that it had a life of 150 years, with millions of tons, much of the coal being deep under the bed of the Firth of Forth, Seafield Colliery was closed in 1988 and in September 1989, the twin towers were demolished.
Photo: W.J. Verden Anderson / Rail Archive Stephenson