59204 Gloucester 18th November 1996
A photo that's been sat in the box for years and never seen the light of day is one of National Power's 59204 during a crew change at Gloucester whilst hauling 4Z91 Aberthaw to Ferrybridge on 18th November 1996. Bit of a challenge to get the slide looking correct and even after some slider bar activity in Photoshop its still way off in my eyes.
Very few pictures or information seems to exist of this and it's associated working. It started out as 4Z90 Ferrybridge to Avonmouth BHT on 16th November 1996. It was then loaded with coal at the bulk terminal and worked over to Aberthaw as 4Z93 13.35 Avonmouth to Aberthaw on the 17th. Once at Aberthaw it was named "Vale of Glamorgan" on the 18th as Aberthaw was a National Power power station. After unloading it worked back to Ferrybridge as per photograph.
Working at the BBHT the day it turned up it was the first instance I came across of a privatised railway. The loco had a number of National Power staff on board and we were told it was nothing to do with us and they would do all the run/round, loading and paperwork themselves. They had no idea what they were doing with little or no training but this was the start of the modern railfreight railway as we know today. Progress!
The loco entered service for National Power in October 1995. It eventually became a EWS machine after NP sold out of the rail haulage business and in time became a regular at Westbury where I was to spend 100's of hours with it on Mendip services before it transferred (sold) to Freightliner after they won the MRL contract.,
Pentax 6 x 7 Scan
© Neil Higson
59204 Gloucester 18th November 1996
A photo that's been sat in the box for years and never seen the light of day is one of National Power's 59204 during a crew change at Gloucester whilst hauling 4Z91 Aberthaw to Ferrybridge on 18th November 1996. Bit of a challenge to get the slide looking correct and even after some slider bar activity in Photoshop its still way off in my eyes.
Very few pictures or information seems to exist of this and it's associated working. It started out as 4Z90 Ferrybridge to Avonmouth BHT on 16th November 1996. It was then loaded with coal at the bulk terminal and worked over to Aberthaw as 4Z93 13.35 Avonmouth to Aberthaw on the 17th. Once at Aberthaw it was named "Vale of Glamorgan" on the 18th as Aberthaw was a National Power power station. After unloading it worked back to Ferrybridge as per photograph.
Working at the BBHT the day it turned up it was the first instance I came across of a privatised railway. The loco had a number of National Power staff on board and we were told it was nothing to do with us and they would do all the run/round, loading and paperwork themselves. They had no idea what they were doing with little or no training but this was the start of the modern railfreight railway as we know today. Progress!
The loco entered service for National Power in October 1995. It eventually became a EWS machine after NP sold out of the rail haulage business and in time became a regular at Westbury where I was to spend 100's of hours with it on Mendip services before it transferred (sold) to Freightliner after they won the MRL contract.,
Pentax 6 x 7 Scan
© Neil Higson