Download or read book Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield written by Alan Davies and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Walkden, near Wigan, the Lancashire Central Collieries locomotives were based. Serving all the local mines, the little tank locos hauled wagons of coal to the large yards there for onward travel to all points. Alan Davies tells the story of the locos of the coalfield.