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47330 Shell Chemical Plant Partington 28th November 1984
Having drawn its train of loaded polypropylene bogie tankers forward to the limit of the loading sidings compound, 47330 deposits its match truck before recoupling to its Baglan Bay bound train at the Shell chemical plant at Carrington on the 28th November 1984. The last train ran in 1993 at which time a VDA wagon was used as a barrier vehicle. This time the VDA was left just inside the compound confines where is stayed stranded for many years until it was presumably demolished when the loading facilities were removed and the track lifted. Remarkably some thirty eight years later 47330 still survives to this day having been rebuilt as 57312 and now sports Northern Belle livery and is owned by DRS.
47330 Shell Chemical Plant Partington 28th November 1984
Having drawn its train of loaded polypropylene bogie tankers forward to the limit of the loading sidings compound, 47330 deposits its match truck before recoupling to its Baglan Bay bound train at the Shell chemical plant at Carrington on the 28th November 1984. The last train ran in 1993 at which time a VDA wagon was used as a barrier vehicle. This time the VDA was left just inside the compound confines where is stayed stranded for many years until it was presumably demolished when the loading facilities were removed and the track lifted. Remarkably some thirty eight years later 47330 still survives to this day having been rebuilt as 57312 and now sports Northern Belle livery and is owned by DRS.