The Portable looks well alive there
I can remember the first time I saw one of those...I was about 5 or 6 years old when my grandfather took me to the colliery where he was surface manager at the time and I saw my very first two full size steam engines plus the portable which I was later told it had been there to belt drive a generator to provide power for bringing the miners back to surface during wartime blackouts and also on site lighting and if I also remember rightly one of the full size engines was a Ploughing engine which was also used for bringing miners back up to the surface in emergency. I have never seen anything of this mentioned during my time on TT and was wondering if anyone else recalls engines being used for these purposes !.
Cheers
Tez
5th January 2014, 06:46 PM
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