Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Abandoned Engineering on Yesterday channel
This episode featured the Bucyrus-Erie, between Allerton Bywater & Swillington (just north-west of Castleford), known as Odd Ball
http://www.walkingdragline.org/history/
It's a big beastie, I've been there a few times myself. & after the draining of the open-cast, toured the site, on an open day
Slightly worrying being so deep in the ground, having known what had happened there
This episode featured the Bucyrus-Erie, between Allerton Bywater & Swillington (just north-west of Castleford), known as Odd Ball
http://www.walkingdragline.org/history/
It's a big beastie, I've been there a few times myself. & after the draining of the open-cast, toured the site, on an open day
Slightly worrying being so deep in the ground, having known what had happened there