Is Mother Nature entering the coal market?
ONE of the biggest issues in the heritage railway sector at the moment is coal – or a shortage of it.
Fears of global warming have led to the Government refusing permission for new mines to be opened, and this has led to steam coal for our heritage lines having to be shipped to the UK from Kazakhstan, Colombia, or even Australia – where possible.
As we reported last issue, the Fros-Y-Fran mine in