WORKINGTON TRANSITION
The raw materials for rail making arriving and the finished product leaving Workington Yard in July 1987. 37504 & 37505 have arrived from Lackenby with “the blooms”, steel slabs that will be rolled into rails like those behind 47591 which is about to back down past Workington Main No.2 ‘box where it will be released onto the main line.
To the left of the trains the loading gauge survives and beyond the railway, land is cleared for the construction of Derwent Howe Retail Park. Immediately to the left of the trains was the Langton Park Sidings which once fed the steelworks' ore stocks and after that it was a massive scrapyard containing all kinds of works railway locos and rolling stock. In the middle distance, grass grows where - a decade before - the houses, shops and school of The Marsh (a thriving Workington community) had stood. On the right of the picture the sidings on the up side are full of wagons.
On the horizon, proper docks cranes at the Port of Workington.
WORKINGTON TRANSITION
The raw materials for rail making arriving and the finished product leaving Workington Yard in July 1987. 37504 & 37505 have arrived from Lackenby with “the blooms”, steel slabs that will be rolled into rails like those behind 47591 which is about to back down past Workington Main No.2 ‘box where it will be released onto the main line.
To the left of the trains the loading gauge survives and beyond the railway, land is cleared for the construction of Derwent Howe Retail Park. Immediately to the left of the trains was the Langton Park Sidings which once fed the steelworks' ore stocks and after that it was a massive scrapyard containing all kinds of works railway locos and rolling stock. In the middle distance, grass grows where - a decade before - the houses, shops and school of The Marsh (a thriving Workington community) had stood. On the right of the picture the sidings on the up side are full of wagons.
On the horizon, proper docks cranes at the Port of Workington.