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66 001 winding its way through the Ribble Valley at Newsholme.

With a meadow full of buttercups, daisies and dandy lions DB Schenker red liveried 66 001 amble past on the hillside above the River Ribble with freight 6K05 12.18 Carlisle Kingmoor Yard to Crewe Basford Hall Yard. The train is at Milepost 31 on the northern approach to the closed station site at Newsholme in an area known as the Trough of Bowland. This area renown for dairy farming is fertile rolling countryside sandwiched between the Yorkshire Dales to the north and the Pendle Hills of Lancashire to the south.

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Uploaded on June 10, 2013
Taken on June 10, 2013