Stranded 'Beethoven' on 6O15 at Kingmoor Yard.
As dawn breaks 92 003 named 'Beethoven' stands waiting to go south with the previous nights 6O15 17.30 Mossend Yard to Eastleigh East Yard which is booked out of Kingmoor Yard at 21.42 but the call never came.
There had been a major lineside fire in warehouses at Leyland Wednesday evening resulting in the West Coast mainline having to be closed from early evening. A warehouse full of toilet paper had gone up in smoke setting fire to adjacent warehouse one of which had a large store of metal beer kegs that once heated started to fire into the air like canon balls. The mainline didn't reopen until 02.15 Thursday morning by which time the West Coast overnight freights were in total disarray. 6O15 was a casualty of the blockage and remained at Kingmoor Yard overnight and with no spare drivers Thursday morning it was subsequently cancelled to run in its booked path 24hrs later.
Stranded 'Beethoven' on 6O15 at Kingmoor Yard.
As dawn breaks 92 003 named 'Beethoven' stands waiting to go south with the previous nights 6O15 17.30 Mossend Yard to Eastleigh East Yard which is booked out of Kingmoor Yard at 21.42 but the call never came.
There had been a major lineside fire in warehouses at Leyland Wednesday evening resulting in the West Coast mainline having to be closed from early evening. A warehouse full of toilet paper had gone up in smoke setting fire to adjacent warehouse one of which had a large store of metal beer kegs that once heated started to fire into the air like canon balls. The mainline didn't reopen until 02.15 Thursday morning by which time the West Coast overnight freights were in total disarray. 6O15 was a casualty of the blockage and remained at Kingmoor Yard overnight and with no spare drivers Thursday morning it was subsequently cancelled to run in its booked path 24hrs later.