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Colliery truck is a rare link to the past.


A RARE rail coal truck will provide a symbolic link In Unix, a file that points to another file or directory. It is used to allow a variety of sources to point to a common destination. The Windows 2000 counterpart is the "virtual directory." When URLs are redirected, it is called "URL mapping.  to the past for a major new Midland business park - thanks to a Birmingham museum.

The 1920s colliery wagon was hunted down at The Birmingham Railway Museum The Birmingham Railway Museum Trust in Birmingham, England operates two subsidiaries: Tyseley Locomotive Works and Vintage Trains. The latter exists to run standard gauge trains in the area, particularly to Stratford-upon-Avon.  at Tyseley, by IM Properties, owners of the 400-acre Birch Coppice Business Park, in North Warwickshire, which stands on the site of the former pit. The wagon will be renovated in the livery of the former owners of the private mine in the early 20th century, Morris & Shaw, and then put on display at the site.

IM commercial manager Mick Jones is pictured at the Railway Museum with chief engineer Bob Meanley and a model of the truck.
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Title Annotation:Business
Publication:Birmingham Mail (England)
Date:Sep 5, 2006
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