Pit to Power- A Personal Recollection of Coal Trains in the 1990s

This book is focused as a decade of change and how the collieries and coal-fired power stations of the era are now long gone. During this period, Chris Booth photographed the collieries, trains and power stations that coal powered and amassed a large collection of photographs. Through these images, he was able to illustrate the potted history of the Worksop Train Crew Depot that opened in 1991. Commencing with a brief look at Worksop in the late 1980s and into the 1990s, including the run-up to the railway privatisation, this is followed by the subsequent new freight companies, which brought changes in coal operations before the wholesale decline in production. Also, there are photographs taken in the Nottingham, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire coalfields as well as descriptions of each colliery and power station and maps show where these were located. There are power station track diagrams, tables and coal plans to illustrate where power station coal originated.