Order and Chaos.
East of Greenesfield, a forest of lamp posts, a clutter of street furniture and perpetual grid-lock marks out one of Tyneside's most congested road junctions, located at the Gateshead end of the Tyne Bridge.
But, right in the middle of the bedlam, a friendly conversation, and above it all a coal train, sedately snaking through the sharply curved elevated section of the Durham coast line.
The scene was captured on 30 September 2011, a time when Lynemouth power station was using imported coal to supplement diminishing supplies of suitable locally mined coal, this example being 6N95, GBRf's 1413 Tyne Dock - Lynemouth headed by 66736. Trains like this continue to ply this route from Tyne Dock to Lynemouth power station but, conveying imported biomass rather than coal.
Order and Chaos.
East of Greenesfield, a forest of lamp posts, a clutter of street furniture and perpetual grid-lock marks out one of Tyneside's most congested road junctions, located at the Gateshead end of the Tyne Bridge.
But, right in the middle of the bedlam, a friendly conversation, and above it all a coal train, sedately snaking through the sharply curved elevated section of the Durham coast line.
The scene was captured on 30 September 2011, a time when Lynemouth power station was using imported coal to supplement diminishing supplies of suitable locally mined coal, this example being 6N95, GBRf's 1413 Tyne Dock - Lynemouth headed by 66736. Trains like this continue to ply this route from Tyne Dock to Lynemouth power station but, conveying imported biomass rather than coal.