Bright Sparks
GB Railfreight Class 92, 92033 leads classmate 92018 along with 66722 "Sir Edward Watkin" (both DIT) through an icy Hartford on 6O74 17:55 Irvine Caledonian Paper to Dollands Moor.
These were the empty china clay slurry tanks from the loaded train that ran a day late on Thursday 17th December and presented an opportunity to move the two 92s south to Wembley.
The positioning move to reduce the number of 92s in Scotland with the sleeper back down to one train in each direction per night, and also to facilitate 018’s onward transfer to Crewe ETD the following day for attention.
The 92s had earlier ran from Polmadie to Carlisle on 0M05.
66722 worked the train from the paper mill in Irvine to Carlisle and would also take the tanks onwards to Dollands Moor after the 92s came off at Wembley.
This was the first time since the night of 23rd August 2018 that a 92 had worked the china clays on the WCML (038 working 6M74 from Carlisle to Wembley on that occasion). Once a regular haunt of the Dysons, the flow is now the preserve of 66s, with the loaded train going via the (unwired) Settle & Carlisle route.
[To see a video of the working please click HERE.]
Bright Sparks
GB Railfreight Class 92, 92033 leads classmate 92018 along with 66722 "Sir Edward Watkin" (both DIT) through an icy Hartford on 6O74 17:55 Irvine Caledonian Paper to Dollands Moor.
These were the empty china clay slurry tanks from the loaded train that ran a day late on Thursday 17th December and presented an opportunity to move the two 92s south to Wembley.
The positioning move to reduce the number of 92s in Scotland with the sleeper back down to one train in each direction per night, and also to facilitate 018’s onward transfer to Crewe ETD the following day for attention.
The 92s had earlier ran from Polmadie to Carlisle on 0M05.
66722 worked the train from the paper mill in Irvine to Carlisle and would also take the tanks onwards to Dollands Moor after the 92s came off at Wembley.
This was the first time since the night of 23rd August 2018 that a 92 had worked the china clays on the WCML (038 working 6M74 from Carlisle to Wembley on that occasion). Once a regular haunt of the Dysons, the flow is now the preserve of 66s, with the loaded train going via the (unwired) Settle & Carlisle route.
[To see a video of the working please click HERE.]