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Title: WAGON HANDLING AT DALKEITH

Reference number: 5662

Date: 1953

Director: d. Peter Pickering

Sponsor: National Coal Board Film

Producer: NO

Production company: DATA

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.59 mins

Description: Overview of preparation cycle and route of wagons at Dalkeith coal preparation plant.

Titles from the National Coal Board record on deposit in SRO.

Credits: p. W.Suschitzky
ed. Eric Pask
SOUND RCA SYSTEM
A DATA Production, 1953.

Shotlist: title, gvs Dalkeith site, map of route of coal through tipplers, traverser and preparation plant (2.04) camera pans sidings where wagons gravitate (2.45) tipplers in action, one man in charge of tippler and weighbridge where coal is weighed (3.42) wagons being emptied into hopper (4.01) coal on conveyor belt, empty wagons being returned to weighbridge. Next full wagon pushes empty one off weighbridge (5.01) empty wagons resting against automatic stop, carriage draws them onto traverser (5.40) traverser moving empty wagons onto rails to preparation plant, man operating traverser. View from traverser which then moves to loading point (7.22) electrical power of traverser, trailing cable from counterweighted drum in demonstration (8.20) gallery at preparation point, man operating a mule which passes under empty wagon to move them below loading chute (9.35) belt loading coal into wagon (10.02) gvs bunker to collect dirt discard from coal preparation plant, aerial ropeway. Full wagons on gradient, resting on one another (11.30) overview of full wagon traverser. Wagons weighed and then taken off on one of 6 rails depending on grade of coal (12.47) view from traverser operators cabin where he controls wagons heading for weighbridge (14.24) train load of washed and graded coal passes incoming lines of wagons of mined coal (14.40) THE END (14.59)