Virtually nothing remains of the North pit-top mine-car circuit except for the trace of the tracks on the empty side of the shaft.  All else was destroyed when the concrete base on the full side was excavated away.

The full mine-cars were pushed off the cage by the empty one being rammed on and then gravitated down-slope away from the shaft, the L and R hand side tracks converging. The cars were halted in front of the tippler by an pneumatic arrestor and were automatically rammed into it and emptied.

After leaving the tippler, the mine-cars ran onto a steel-plate turntable which directed them back towards the empty side of the shaft. They were carried up-slope by a Lofco creeper which brought them to the high point in the circuit from where they gravitated onto another plate turntable. This directed them back towards the shaft-side, with a set of automatic points switching between R and L tracks after every second mine-car, the empty mine-cars finally coming to rest on the stop catches in front of the shaft side, ready to be loaded onto the cage.

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30 Mar, 2010