tarboat's photos with the keyword: smoke

JS 6261 is in charge as another load of burning spoil is deposited on the tip at Sandaoling opencast coal mine.

Some of the waste material being removed by the stripping shovels at Sandaoling opencast coal mine was on fire. This material was taken to a specific tip where it could burn itself out. The clouds of dust and smoke in the distance are from a wagonload of spoil just being tipped.

Darkness falls as another load of burning spoil is deposited on the tip at Sandaoling opencast coal mine.

At the Sandaoling opencast coal mine there are a number of spoil tips, but only one for receiving the waste material from areas that have suffered spontaneous combustion of the coal and other carbonaceous material. Trains can arrive with the wagon contents well alight and this is quickly tipped adjacent to the track before the special plough wagon is brought up to push the material over the edge of the tip. Here JS 6430 is completing unloading of its train as the core of the bank continues to smoulder.