56 113 with the first working for Cloburn Aggregate.
With the recent acquisition of the former Scottish Coal owned Ravenstruther Coal Loading terminal by Cloburn Aggregate Ltd the first loaded train ran on Friday 3rd December. 56 113 stands in Kingmoor Yard the following morning with 6K30 10.09 ex Ravenstruther Stone Terminal loaded with red granite. I assume this will form Monday's 12.01 to Pinnox Branch Sidings, Longport.
Ravenstruther makes a welcome return to the freight network having not seen a train since the collapse of the Scottish Coal Co. in April 2013. The rapid loading bunker at Ravenstruther was demolished a few year back but the horseshoe shaped sidings remained in situ mothballed. Stone is brought by road from Cloburn Quarry a short distance away to the South East of Lanark and loaded onto the railway from a pad where the rapid loader used to stand. The company leased the site from Hargreaves Ltd in 2020 who took on some of the residual assets of what was Scottish Coal but last month Cloburn bought the site outright. The same red granite was used by BR as track ballast 30 years ago and loading back then was carried out from a wall siding in Carstairs Down Yard.
56 113 with the first working for Cloburn Aggregate.
With the recent acquisition of the former Scottish Coal owned Ravenstruther Coal Loading terminal by Cloburn Aggregate Ltd the first loaded train ran on Friday 3rd December. 56 113 stands in Kingmoor Yard the following morning with 6K30 10.09 ex Ravenstruther Stone Terminal loaded with red granite. I assume this will form Monday's 12.01 to Pinnox Branch Sidings, Longport.
Ravenstruther makes a welcome return to the freight network having not seen a train since the collapse of the Scottish Coal Co. in April 2013. The rapid loading bunker at Ravenstruther was demolished a few year back but the horseshoe shaped sidings remained in situ mothballed. Stone is brought by road from Cloburn Quarry a short distance away to the South East of Lanark and loaded onto the railway from a pad where the rapid loader used to stand. The company leased the site from Hargreaves Ltd in 2020 who took on some of the residual assets of what was Scottish Coal but last month Cloburn bought the site outright. The same red granite was used by BR as track ballast 30 years ago and loading back then was carried out from a wall siding in Carstairs Down Yard.