Ereğlı TCDD | 1989
Workers' departure at Ereğli town beside its Black Sea harbour sees one of a pair of similar-likeness BRG8/2 employed on the line 45001 06.45 service to the coal mines at Armutçuk.
The Black Sea minerals line was unconnected to the national network, later becoming abandoned with eventual disposal of the pair of locos 45001/17 stationed there.
The railway ran from a large mine in Armuçuk to the port town of Karadeniz Ereğlı and the large Erdemir steel mill but passenger services also operated to small villages along the line, some as heavy 'mixed' trains.
The abandoned town alignments have become laid out as attractive boulevards.
Commercial scan / 35mm IlfordFP4.
14th May 1989
Ereğlı TCDD | 1989
Workers' departure at Ereğli town beside its Black Sea harbour sees one of a pair of similar-likeness BRG8/2 employed on the line 45001 06.45 service to the coal mines at Armutçuk.
The Black Sea minerals line was unconnected to the national network, later becoming abandoned with eventual disposal of the pair of locos 45001/17 stationed there.
The railway ran from a large mine in Armuçuk to the port town of Karadeniz Ereğlı and the large Erdemir steel mill but passenger services also operated to small villages along the line, some as heavy 'mixed' trains.
The abandoned town alignments have become laid out as attractive boulevards.
Commercial scan / 35mm IlfordFP4.
14th May 1989