Immingham Mineral Quay, 59003
This one really needs you to hit "L" and "F11" to get the full effect.
I didn't put this up at the time but it did appear in the January 2015 Rail Express so I suppose I need to add it so it can go in my published images album.
The published image was cropped down such that the ship had lost it's funnel.
The date is Saturday 11th October 2014 and I've called in after a morning shift, a morning that saw black skies with some beautiful patches of glorious light breaking through for short periods. After my arrival I sat for quite some time waiting for the sun to pop it's head out one more time but of course it didn't.
The occasion, of course, is the repatriation of 59003 to this country. Having been unloaded from it's ship it sits in Mineral Quay Sidings, Immingham over the weekend of 11th & 12th October before being towed to Eastleigh on Monday 13th October.
Mineral Quay sidings are predominantly used by GBRf to store their wagon sets over the weekend and they also store the odd loco here, generally one will sit here a seen in this shot then upon arrival of another empty coal set the engine from the later arriving coal set will couple up to the loco seen here and the pair will run light to Doncaster Roberts Road.
59003 & 66703.
Immingham Mineral Quay
14.40 on Saturday 11th October 2014.
Published : Rail Express, January 2015
Immingham Mineral Quay, 59003
This one really needs you to hit "L" and "F11" to get the full effect.
I didn't put this up at the time but it did appear in the January 2015 Rail Express so I suppose I need to add it so it can go in my published images album.
The published image was cropped down such that the ship had lost it's funnel.
The date is Saturday 11th October 2014 and I've called in after a morning shift, a morning that saw black skies with some beautiful patches of glorious light breaking through for short periods. After my arrival I sat for quite some time waiting for the sun to pop it's head out one more time but of course it didn't.
The occasion, of course, is the repatriation of 59003 to this country. Having been unloaded from it's ship it sits in Mineral Quay Sidings, Immingham over the weekend of 11th & 12th October before being towed to Eastleigh on Monday 13th October.
Mineral Quay sidings are predominantly used by GBRf to store their wagon sets over the weekend and they also store the odd loco here, generally one will sit here a seen in this shot then upon arrival of another empty coal set the engine from the later arriving coal set will couple up to the loco seen here and the pair will run light to Doncaster Roberts Road.
59003 & 66703.
Immingham Mineral Quay
14.40 on Saturday 11th October 2014.
Published : Rail Express, January 2015