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Pennine Snow Line.

56105 slogs up the 1:120 gradient near Keld on 4 March 2024, approaching Appleby with 6J37, Colas Rail Freight’s 1252 Carlisle Yard – Chirk log train (loaded to seventeen bogies).

 

The snow line beyond, is lying on the highest section of the Pennines, with Cross Fell (above the centre of the locomotive) and Great Dun Fell (topped with the Civil Aviation Authority’s air traffic control radome). Cross Fell and Great Dun Fell are the Pennine’s highest and second highest peaks respectively.

 

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Uploaded on March 8, 2024
Taken on March 4, 2024