The three 1500 Class locomotives were sold into preservation at the Severn Valley Railway, with 1502 and 1509 providing a kit of spares to refurbish 1501, before they were scrapped at Cashmore's, Great Bridge in October 1970. 1501's boiler certificate expired in 2006, and is currently undergoing overhaul on the SVR. The colliery company/NCB owned and operated locomotives were:  After British Coal handed the site over to the local authority in 1996, the site was divided into three areas:  After the closure of the Homefire plant in 2000, that area was also redeveloped as part of the distribution park. Retaining its connection to the national rail network via Network Rail, the site also has road connections to the M6 motorway. In 2008, a memorial was erected to the former miners of the colliery and workers at the smokeless fuel plant.