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Northwich locoshed in the early 1980s. Old oil tank wagons being used to provide a fueling point for the class 25 locos used on the ICI hopper trains.

Although I can't confirm this, it was said at the time that the tanks were mounted on elderly underframes from pre-grouping loco tenders.

 

In steam days this was where the coaling facilites were,

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Uploaded on March 30, 2020