Fiddlers Ferry, Railfreight 37678 & 37688 6H45 08.03 (Carterhouse Peakstone - Topley Pike) July 3rd 1987.
Railfreight Red Stripe liveried 37678 & 37688 with the returning Peakstone empties from Carterhouse in Widnes pass Fiddlers Ferry power station in July 1987.
This working arrived approx 06.00 and I managed to photograph it once with the sun coming up over the canal in the reverse direction to this shot.
* Up until closure of the Latchford to Skelton Junction line in July 1985 this working went the direct route via Latchford, Skelton Jct and South Manchester as did the MGR's from Yorkshire to Fiddlers Ferry.
** The Sankey Canal in the foreground predates the Railway here, it was an extension from Fiddlers Ferry where the existing canal (1757) entered the River Mersey and went across the salt marshes here direct to Widnes close to where the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway terminated.
Fiddlers Ferry, Railfreight 37678 & 37688 6H45 08.03 (Carterhouse Peakstone - Topley Pike) July 3rd 1987.
Railfreight Red Stripe liveried 37678 & 37688 with the returning Peakstone empties from Carterhouse in Widnes pass Fiddlers Ferry power station in July 1987.
This working arrived approx 06.00 and I managed to photograph it once with the sun coming up over the canal in the reverse direction to this shot.
* Up until closure of the Latchford to Skelton Junction line in July 1985 this working went the direct route via Latchford, Skelton Jct and South Manchester as did the MGR's from Yorkshire to Fiddlers Ferry.
** The Sankey Canal in the foreground predates the Railway here, it was an extension from Fiddlers Ferry where the existing canal (1757) entered the River Mersey and went across the salt marshes here direct to Widnes close to where the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway terminated.