DSC_0188a No3 aka 20906 Earles Sidings
A couple more 20s shots from Saturday in the Hope Valley.
Around lunchtime and following the arrival of the Dewsbury to Earles, the main train loco had shunted its load back into the two sidings at the head of Earles Sidings and ran off to the stabling and fuelling point. Then secretly sneaking down the branch from the Hope cement works came HNRL No 3, formerly known as D8319, 20219 or 20906 to rejoin the two rakes of tanks to take the empties back up to Hope Cement works for filling.
The ghostly white livery is not the only secretive thing about this loco as it has been specifically silenced so sadly none of the English Electric whistle as it heads up the branch.
DSC_0188a No3 aka 20906 Earles Sidings
A couple more 20s shots from Saturday in the Hope Valley.
Around lunchtime and following the arrival of the Dewsbury to Earles, the main train loco had shunted its load back into the two sidings at the head of Earles Sidings and ran off to the stabling and fuelling point. Then secretly sneaking down the branch from the Hope cement works came HNRL No 3, formerly known as D8319, 20219 or 20906 to rejoin the two rakes of tanks to take the empties back up to Hope Cement works for filling.
The ghostly white livery is not the only secretive thing about this loco as it has been specifically silenced so sadly none of the English Electric whistle as it heads up the branch.