Class 20s 20 214 and 143 haul a train of MGR wagons through the rapid loading bunker at Lounge Disposal Point on the 27th March 1991.  The site was built in the late 1980s to service the Lounge Open Cast site to the north east of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire.  Most of the coal went to Willington Power Station.  After a life of about ten years the open cast site was closed and the area became part of the new National Forest .  The site was cleared of most of the buildings but the rails remained and were used as a run round facility for the various open cast sites which were opened on the Ashby - Moira stretch of the line.

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