The Sulzer power is piled on as freight 7A52 crosses Hoo Junction. 1988.
The secondman looks back to give the driver the tip when the rear has cleared the junction as a pair of Hither Green's finest get some stick lifting a heavily loaded marine dredged aggregate train off the Grain branch onto the North Kent mainline at Hoo Junction.
Sisters 33 048 leading and 33 047 trailing are working 7A52 10.10 Cliffe gravel terminal to Angerstein's Wharf on behalf of Brett Marine Ltd. The sea dredged gravel being used by Marcon Ltd at their concrete batching plant at Angerstein's Wharf on the Thames east of Bugsby's Reach in Greenwich. Although a relatively short distance of 25 miles these trains ran daily thus avoiding the congested roads in the South London area.
The structure on the left is the now closed Hoo Junction Down Staff Halt. It was still open back then but fell into disuse at privatisation. From memory I recall it was a god forsaken place to wait in the winter when there was a gale blowing across the Thames marshes.
The Sulzer power is piled on as freight 7A52 crosses Hoo Junction. 1988.
The secondman looks back to give the driver the tip when the rear has cleared the junction as a pair of Hither Green's finest get some stick lifting a heavily loaded marine dredged aggregate train off the Grain branch onto the North Kent mainline at Hoo Junction.
Sisters 33 048 leading and 33 047 trailing are working 7A52 10.10 Cliffe gravel terminal to Angerstein's Wharf on behalf of Brett Marine Ltd. The sea dredged gravel being used by Marcon Ltd at their concrete batching plant at Angerstein's Wharf on the Thames east of Bugsby's Reach in Greenwich. Although a relatively short distance of 25 miles these trains ran daily thus avoiding the congested roads in the South London area.
The structure on the left is the now closed Hoo Junction Down Staff Halt. It was still open back then but fell into disuse at privatisation. From memory I recall it was a god forsaken place to wait in the winter when there was a gale blowing across the Thames marshes.