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Aggregates train from the Old Coopers Scrapyard at Attercliffe - 1866+1868
Sunday and not much happening on the network ... except two moves, the 1st from Pontefract, a Civil Engineers train of 1000 tonnes operated by DBS and due to sit in the Brightside Up/Down East Slow line for an hour awaiting passage back north to Doncaster. This is a circuitous route south from Pontefract through Moorthorpe and Masbrough to Brightside for reversal, only for it to go back north, taking the east-bound turnout at Swinton, through Hexthorpe to the yard at Doncaster. It wasn't always this way however as the south-bound line crossed the Doncaster line at South Elmsall, making north to east moves possible and there was a similar connection on the south side of the Doncaster line for west to south moves. These two connections were still in situ in 1913 between what was then the south-bound, S&K (Swinton & Knottingley) line and the West Riding & Grimsby line (of the G.N & G.C.R) and the southern connections was still present in 1953 as it still is today allowing moves from the south to and from Wakefield. The northern connection had been taken out by the early-1950s and it is this curve which would have proved useful today, unless it was a driver, route learning exercise in which case the jaunt along to the loop at Brightside may have been for other reasons. The working is sat at the end of the loop in these shots off beyond the postal sorting office seen in the next pictures and Arfadint has a picture of that situation here-
www.flickr.com/photos/49068127@N06/22089872390/
and shows the Freightliner class 66, 66053 sat at the end of the loop with its short rake of wagons as DBS 60024 approaches on the outside road, the 60 itself set to run round its train once the 66 has departed on the 6T60, Pontefract Baghill to Belmont Down Yard working. These pictures show the working of DBS class 60, 60024, coming along the curve out of the site of the old Coopers Scrapyard, now occupied by both EMR, European Metal Recyclers, and Cemex Cement and although this may look like scrap train, the wagons hold aggregates. This is yet another location which is becoming more and more festooned with vegetation though not quite close enough to the tracks to warrant any NR action... unfortunately.
Aggregates train from the Old Coopers Scrapyard at Attercliffe - 1866+1868
Sunday and not much happening on the network ... except two moves, the 1st from Pontefract, a Civil Engineers train of 1000 tonnes operated by DBS and due to sit in the Brightside Up/Down East Slow line for an hour awaiting passage back north to Doncaster. This is a circuitous route south from Pontefract through Moorthorpe and Masbrough to Brightside for reversal, only for it to go back north, taking the east-bound turnout at Swinton, through Hexthorpe to the yard at Doncaster. It wasn't always this way however as the south-bound line crossed the Doncaster line at South Elmsall, making north to east moves possible and there was a similar connection on the south side of the Doncaster line for west to south moves. These two connections were still in situ in 1913 between what was then the south-bound, S&K (Swinton & Knottingley) line and the West Riding & Grimsby line (of the G.N & G.C.R) and the southern connections was still present in 1953 as it still is today allowing moves from the south to and from Wakefield. The northern connection had been taken out by the early-1950s and it is this curve which would have proved useful today, unless it was a driver, route learning exercise in which case the jaunt along to the loop at Brightside may have been for other reasons. The working is sat at the end of the loop in these shots off beyond the postal sorting office seen in the next pictures and Arfadint has a picture of that situation here-
www.flickr.com/photos/49068127@N06/22089872390/
and shows the Freightliner class 66, 66053 sat at the end of the loop with its short rake of wagons as DBS 60024 approaches on the outside road, the 60 itself set to run round its train once the 66 has departed on the 6T60, Pontefract Baghill to Belmont Down Yard working. These pictures show the working of DBS class 60, 60024, coming along the curve out of the site of the old Coopers Scrapyard, now occupied by both EMR, European Metal Recyclers, and Cemex Cement and although this may look like scrap train, the wagons hold aggregates. This is yet another location which is becoming more and more festooned with vegetation though not quite close enough to the tracks to warrant any NR action... unfortunately.