Scunthorpe 1986
I do not normally purchase slides but whilst browsing on E Bay this gem caught my eye.
The whole image just oozes atmosphere and the fact it is in monochrome I think just adds something more than a K64 slide could do.
We see an everyday scene of 47340 building up the amps on the Down Main with 30 HAA MGR Hoppers running as 6V60 09:27 Scunthorpe Coal Handling Plant to Seven Tunnel Junction. The empty MGR wagons will be loaded at Oakdale Colliery and sent back to Scunthorpe.
Next to the 47 is 56009 with 7D48 06:57 Worksop Up Yard to Scunthorpe Coal Handling Plant loaded working the coal being sourced from Dinnington, Thurcroft or Manton Collieries waiting to get the road into the CHP.
The large building dominating the back ground is the coal handling plant itself. The goods yard is full of SNCF registered steel wagons and will no doubt be loaded with product from the Steel Works for the Dover Trainferry.
Along with Frodingham Depot in the back ground a 31 and some class 20s can be seen waiting next duties along with some SPA wagons in the wagon repair sidings. The other side of the mainline also shows Entrance 'A' into the steel works and in Trent Lower Yard another set of coal hoppers waiting a slot into the CHP to be unloaded. JS Collection
Scunthorpe 1986
I do not normally purchase slides but whilst browsing on E Bay this gem caught my eye.
The whole image just oozes atmosphere and the fact it is in monochrome I think just adds something more than a K64 slide could do.
We see an everyday scene of 47340 building up the amps on the Down Main with 30 HAA MGR Hoppers running as 6V60 09:27 Scunthorpe Coal Handling Plant to Seven Tunnel Junction. The empty MGR wagons will be loaded at Oakdale Colliery and sent back to Scunthorpe.
Next to the 47 is 56009 with 7D48 06:57 Worksop Up Yard to Scunthorpe Coal Handling Plant loaded working the coal being sourced from Dinnington, Thurcroft or Manton Collieries waiting to get the road into the CHP.
The large building dominating the back ground is the coal handling plant itself. The goods yard is full of SNCF registered steel wagons and will no doubt be loaded with product from the Steel Works for the Dover Trainferry.
Along with Frodingham Depot in the back ground a 31 and some class 20s can be seen waiting next duties along with some SPA wagons in the wagon repair sidings. The other side of the mainline also shows Entrance 'A' into the steel works and in Trent Lower Yard another set of coal hoppers waiting a slot into the CHP to be unloaded. JS Collection