Penkridge Wharf on the Penkridge Exchange Sidings to Littleton Colliery Branch was easily visible from to southbound M6 Motorway but has now been completely obliterated. Shortly before the closure of Littleton Colliery, a Chris Milner organised Charter re-enacted former times as Hunslet Austerities "Wimblebury" and "Whiston" brought from the Foxfield Railway prepare to do battle on the ascent from the Wharf to the Colliery on empty MGR Wagons on 12th November 1993.
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