Nuclear Bunker.
Before 1995 some reactors in mainland Europe dispatched their irradiated nuclear fuel to Sellafield by rail, crossing the channel (and in some cases the North Sea) by rail ferry. After the Channel Tunnel was opened in 1994, rail ferries were no longer viable but nuclear cargo was excluded from the tunnel, leading to all that traffic going by sea to the Port of Barrow-in-Furness.
One of the Ferry-wagons utilised for flask traffic from the continent is seen here marshalled into an ordinary freight in July 1995, 6F47 the 1234 Workington to Warrington, Arpley sidings powered by 47308, passing Seascale Golf course. The wagon is not carrying nuclear material and has just been “cut into” the consist at Sellafield to return it to the continent via rail ferry.
Nuclear Bunker.
Before 1995 some reactors in mainland Europe dispatched their irradiated nuclear fuel to Sellafield by rail, crossing the channel (and in some cases the North Sea) by rail ferry. After the Channel Tunnel was opened in 1994, rail ferries were no longer viable but nuclear cargo was excluded from the tunnel, leading to all that traffic going by sea to the Port of Barrow-in-Furness.
One of the Ferry-wagons utilised for flask traffic from the continent is seen here marshalled into an ordinary freight in July 1995, 6F47 the 1234 Workington to Warrington, Arpley sidings powered by 47308, passing Seascale Golf course. The wagon is not carrying nuclear material and has just been “cut into” the consist at Sellafield to return it to the continent via rail ferry.