Long Freight
Class 70s
Class 66s
Cracking Day for Freight at Hellifield
Despite the Rain!
22 May 24
A trip to Hellifield on what proved to be a very wet day! Thank goodness for the historic canopies and the 24H Cafe, museum and shop to keep me warm. All this after scorching weather only a couple of days before!
[Correction]
We have a Class 150 unit doing route learning trips from Clitheroe to Blea Moor and return in anticipation of a Saturdays only service from Rochdale via Manchester Victoria, Bolton, Blackburn and Hellifield to Ribblehead from the June timetable.
We see the train of cement empties heading for Castle Cement at Clitheroe.
The Gypsum empties from British Gypsum at Kirkby Thore returning to Teesport hauled by an appropriately named Class 66.
We have a new traffic flow of aggregates from Carlisle to Dewsbury.
There's 6K05 Engineer's train from Carlisle to Crewe Basford HAll
The logs run for the first time this week from Carlisle to Chirk
And finally the Weedkilling train from GBRf! Its second of three planned runs over the S&C.
All this fitted between the passenger services on the Settle & Carlisle line and the Bentham line to Lancaster and Morecambe.
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