 Coal was transported by canal and a railway connection to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 's Beswick branch built in the early 1900s , but most of it was used locally , transported by road using horse and carts and motor lorries , much of it destined for the adjacent Bradford Ironworks . The company bought a 0 @-@ 4 @-@ 0 saddle tank locomotive , Bradford , from the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol in 1928 to shunt wagons to the colliery siding . 
