DSCF6240 Stagecoach East Midlands 34458 (YN53 ZRU) in New Houghton - 9 Oct 2014

Wednesday 8 October 2014 (1306) - Stagecoach (East Midland) 34458 (YN53 ZRU), a Transbus Plaxton Pointer bodied Dart new January 2004, seen passing through New Houghton when working the 1150 service 53 from Sheffield to Mansfield. The mining village of New Houghton was originally built in the 1890s to house workers from the nearby Pleasley Pit which opened in the 1870s closing in 1983. The grounds are now a nature reserve consisting of footpaths and lakes. The colliery is now a mining museum.