Robin Hood Line Storyboard_39
Most of the trains I witnessed along here in the 1960s were part of the coal traffic. Wagons got bigger but, with 4 wheels, always sounded like wagons.
Soon after it was formed, the English, Welsh & Scottish Railway Company (EWS) announced it was to buy a large number of new high-capacity wagons. One of the types identified for replacement was the HAA merry-go-round coal hopper, all of which were between 18 and 36 years old. The design selected became the HTA, and a total of 1144 were built at the reopened York works between 2001 and 2004.
Having bogies the sound of a coal train suddenly became different!
Here, on 2 November 2002, an unidentified Class 66 draws a rake of empty HTA wagons towards Kirkby-in-Ashfield station, as a Class 150 Sprinter takes the Robin Hood line towards Newstead.
The next video is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52128845979/in/album-...
Robin Hood Line Storyboard_39
Most of the trains I witnessed along here in the 1960s were part of the coal traffic. Wagons got bigger but, with 4 wheels, always sounded like wagons.
Soon after it was formed, the English, Welsh & Scottish Railway Company (EWS) announced it was to buy a large number of new high-capacity wagons. One of the types identified for replacement was the HAA merry-go-round coal hopper, all of which were between 18 and 36 years old. The design selected became the HTA, and a total of 1144 were built at the reopened York works between 2001 and 2004.
Having bogies the sound of a coal train suddenly became different!
Here, on 2 November 2002, an unidentified Class 66 draws a rake of empty HTA wagons towards Kirkby-in-Ashfield station, as a Class 150 Sprinter takes the Robin Hood line towards Newstead.
The next video is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52128845979/in/album-...