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Exton Park Photograph: Courtney Haydon Collection (G-096-34)
		11/04/2012 from Dave Blower This location looks like Colsterworth on the High Dyke branch, as seen here:- http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwf2009/5537351933/?q=colsterworth quarry
		11/04/2012 from Mike Christensen I think that is in the pit at Exton Park. These little Yorkshire locos did some sterling work. It was a long drag out of the pit up to the summit, then a level stretch parallel to the road before an equally steep descent to the exchange sidings.
		11/04/2012 from Richard Pike location: Exton Park Is that Sundew in the background?
		11/04/2012 from Simon Layfield location: Exton Park Quarry Face, North looking South This is the rail trip organised by the RCTS on 24th June 1972. This is the train at the working face next to Ruston Bucyrus 100RB electric face shovel. The train ran with two Yorkshire Engine Co. Janus diesel electric locos, top and tail. The loco nearest is Works Number 2792 built in 1962, running number 1393, DE3. The loco at the rear (South) is Works Number 2791, running number 1395 DE5, now preserved at Rocks by Rail on the site of the exchange sidings.
		11/04/2012 from Simon Layfield location: Exton Park Quarry Yes that is Sundew in the background. The quarry closed on 29th May 1973, a year after this tour and Sundew walked from the quarry to Harringworth in 1974. Now restored to nature, a fottpath walk in Exton Park still allows visitors to look over the site of the final face.
		13/04/2012 from Cyril location: Exton Park A report on the RCTS tour of 24.6.72 appears in the August 1972 Railway Observer

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