The second of three "Mac Rats" on merry-go-round coal train in just 20 minutes that morning! 26003 Prestonpans 130886 (emgr to Blindwells OC)
26003 - Prestonpans - 1005 - 13/08/86 (Un-identified [Headcode - probably an "as ordered" trip or target working, but without the weekly coal programme I'am unable to confirm the working / Origin - assumed to be Millerhill S.S ot Leith Docks / Departure time] empty merry-go-round coal train to Blindwells Opencast Disposal Point, which consisted of 25 individually numbered empty HAAs without canopies (I assume the rain that day would keep the dust from blowing off the wagons).
Two minutes earlier 26005 had headed the other way with an empty train from Cockenzie Power Station & this was followed just 16 minutes by 26004 (shame about the order, otherwise it could have been 3, 4 & 5!) on a loaded train to Cockenzie Power Station:-
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The second of three "Mac Rats" on merry-go-round coal train in just 20 minutes that morning! 26003 Prestonpans 130886 (emgr to Blindwells OC)
26003 - Prestonpans - 1005 - 13/08/86 (Un-identified [Headcode - probably an "as ordered" trip or target working, but without the weekly coal programme I'am unable to confirm the working / Origin - assumed to be Millerhill S.S ot Leith Docks / Departure time] empty merry-go-round coal train to Blindwells Opencast Disposal Point, which consisted of 25 individually numbered empty HAAs without canopies (I assume the rain that day would keep the dust from blowing off the wagons).
Two minutes earlier 26005 had headed the other way with an empty train from Cockenzie Power Station & this was followed just 16 minutes by 26004 (shame about the order, otherwise it could have been 3, 4 & 5!) on a loaded train to Cockenzie Power Station:-
www.flickr.com/photos/151904976@N08/54784930358/in/datepo...