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Little Boxes.

6Z43, the 0510 Crewe Coal Sidings - Drigg (Low Level Waste Repository), top and tailed by 37607 and 37602 heads away from Silecroft on 27 February 2013.

 

The train consists of eight PFAs carrying low level nuclear waste from Winfrith, loaded in six half height (1.3m) and a couple of third height (0.86m) ISO containers. The third height boxes are for carrying dense heavy material like soil or rubble to ensure weight restrictions are met.

 

I originally posted a version of this with more of a brown cast (the brown grassland showing through the frost) hence the "desert" comments, as a response I've posted a slightly whiter version.

 

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Uploaded on September 5, 2021
Taken on February 27, 2013