The 50-year coal mine fire

Born into a family where the previous five generations of men had been miners, Danny Scott , 60, was expected to follow suit. Instead, he became a writer and in his new book he paints a vivid picture of his upbringing in a Nottinghamshire mining village

Margaret Thatcher’s administration had spent 1984 battling the miners and dismantling the coal industry. But with that fight almost won, as the clock ticked into the New Year, she had another of the U

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Three lives lost in Hanger 79 fire

I always used to regard Class 31s as Western or Eastern Region locos. I most strongly associate them with depots like Old Oak Common, Finsbury Park, Stratford, Immingham or Gateshead. They were famili

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