LNER J38 0-6-0 No 65911 on a coal train passing Rothes Colliery in c1965. Rothes was planned to be one of the NCB’s ‘Superpits’ with an output of 5,000 tons of coal per day. Production began in 1957, but Rothes never achieved the intended tonnages; it closed in May 1962 it became the most spectacular failure of the NCB era in Scotland.

Photo: W.J. Verden Anderson / Rail Archive Stephenson