Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway, Furnace Sidings, Garn-yr-Erw, Blaenavon, Pontypool 28 August 2017

This might look like a train wreck waiting to happen, but the locomotive Mechanical Navvies on the left, was stationary.

Mechanical Navvies, 71515, was commissioned by the War Department in 1945 from Robert Stevenson and Hawthorns as WD71515, but, with WW2 all but over, was quickly put to work at the Swalwell Disposal Point in what was then the county of Durham, but is now Tyne & Wear. At the time the opencast disposal point was worked by Mechanical Navvies Limited, and it is in that company’s livery that the loco now appears.

Coming down the track on the right is the 31/1 D5627 diesel locomotive Steve Organ GM, owned by the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway.