The wagons discharged the peat into a hopper below the tracks. A winch was used to pull the wagons onto the hopper, as no loco was kept at the terminus for shunting. These photos were taken in June 1994, approx 6 months before the railway ceased operation.
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Usually there were two locos in use to shunt the loaded wagons up from the peat workings, because the track dropped down a considerable gradient onto the peat loading area. Here the two locos No2 and No3, have just hauled the loaded train onto the main line and await the arrival of the next set of empites.
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Once No5 arrives, the two smaller Simplex locos take the empties away for loading and No5 then backs onto the full wagons for the return trip back.
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