37521, 37372 Crediton 10th January 2001
37521, 37372 catch the low winter sun as they arrive slowly at Crediton so as to allow the token exchange at the signal box just out of view. The train of railway ballast in JRA continental box wagons was destined for Eastleigh VQ had come down from Meldon Quarry at Oakhampton. The train was running as 6G99 10:30 Meldon to Westbury and ran for approximately a year.
Class 37's were used as it was found that class 66's had a more severe initial brake application that had caused a number of bad wheel flats on several trains.
Mamiya 645 Slide scan
© Neil Higson
37521, 37372 Crediton 10th January 2001
37521, 37372 catch the low winter sun as they arrive slowly at Crediton so as to allow the token exchange at the signal box just out of view. The train of railway ballast in JRA continental box wagons was destined for Eastleigh VQ had come down from Meldon Quarry at Oakhampton. The train was running as 6G99 10:30 Meldon to Westbury and ran for approximately a year.
Class 37's were used as it was found that class 66's had a more severe initial brake application that had caused a number of bad wheel flats on several trains.
Mamiya 645 Slide scan
© Neil Higson