0-6-0T locomotive Mary

[randyrippley]

The 1905 photo looks like a saddle tank. Presumably the newer one.

 

[Bevan Price]

There was at least two other locos there. Lord Kenton, an IC 0-6-0ST - HE 289/84, which was scrapped in 1909 and an early IC 0-6-0ST Manning Wardle, which was acquired from a dealer - MW 76/63. This was presumably scrapped quite early on.

Info from the same IRS source.

The locos are all listed in the book "The Industrial Railways of Bolton, Bury and the Manchester Coalfield, Part 2, The Manchester Coalfield", by CHA Townley, CA Appleton, FD Smith & JA Peden.

Started by James & William Roscoe in about 1850, Peel Hall Colliery & New Lester Colliery were owned by James Roscoe & Sons from 1892, and then Peel Collieries Ltd. from about 1938. Peel Hall Colliery closed in 1931, but New Lester Colliery survived until about 1944. After WW2, an opencast disposal site was opened nearby by the Ministry of Fuel & Power, passing to NCB in 1948, and operated by Sir Alfred McAlpine under contract, and using their own locos.

Photos of "King George V" & "Lord Kenyon" (not Kenton) appear in the above-mentioned book.

The collieries were initially connected to the Eccles to Bolton Great Moor Street line via an LNWR branch from Little Hulton Jn, but were later also connected to the L&YR line via Atherton.