First Train.
Heavy snow on 5 February 1996 closed the Cumbrian coast line until the arrival of the snow plough the following day. The first train to arrive at Whitehaven following the ploughs, was MerseyTravel pacer 142057, nominally forming the 1425 Carlisle – Barrow-in-Furness.
However - like the snow plough that preceded it - it did not travel any further south and was turned back north (presumably to Workington if its destination blind is to be believed). It was the next day – 7 February - before the entire Cumbrian coast line was cleared.
First Train.
Heavy snow on 5 February 1996 closed the Cumbrian coast line until the arrival of the snow plough the following day. The first train to arrive at Whitehaven following the ploughs, was MerseyTravel pacer 142057, nominally forming the 1425 Carlisle – Barrow-in-Furness.
However - like the snow plough that preceded it - it did not travel any further south and was turned back north (presumably to Workington if its destination blind is to be believed). It was the next day – 7 February - before the entire Cumbrian coast line was cleared.