Views in Camera
A Civil Engineer's day Out at the coast on the old N.E.R. line at Bridlington & Carnaby - 0727+737
Another visit to the area just south of the east-coast seaside resort of Bridlington, in order to deal with other matters and during the time there, from Tues, 19th to Monday 25th, Network Rail were in the area, again apparently, attending to the old N.E.R.'s single track, further south, between Driffield and Beverley. Unfortunately, in a way I mean, there is no report of track movements on the section of line once outside Hull in the south and York in the north, though local trains reverse at Scarborough. This means it is difficult to know exactly where an Engineering train is lurking along the line until such time as it is due in a station, here it has to be Bridlington or Scarborough as the intermediate stations tend not to register the passage until its too late; this was chiefly the cause of missing two of the 5 daytime moves outwards, the inbound workings, 6Y29 & 6Y30, coming in very early Saturday morning at 00:50 and 01:24. As the weather was mainly good the whole week, photographing the moves facing south was fraught with bright, overhead sunlight as this 1st pair of 3 sets, shows. In the background of the view on the left, looking due south-west, the line curves around right and heads in a more westerly direction before turning gently south-west once more heading to Driffield where the line comes about to the south to head to Hutton Cranswick and on to Beverley. The engineering working looks to have been here a while and has come up form the possession between Driffield and Beverley with a pair of class 66 Freightliners, 66588 and at the back, 66505, top-and-tailing the engineering working, now heading towards York and then on to Doncaster. This is the 1st of the two moves out on Saturday, 6Y31, with the time-table showing departure from Bridlington Station, just behind the camera, in around 10 minutes at 14:30. On the track to the right of the front of the loco is an NR 'STOP' board mounted on the rail-head, the Freightliners of course being on the 'wrong line' here, will pass through the station and onto the single track section north to Bempton, Hunmanby and Filey and so on to Seamer Junction for reversal, then to head to York. A tall semaphore signal is at the track side for correct moves away from the camera on the left line and a MAS signal is in the right corner for moves into the station, all controlled from the large N.E.R. box, Bridlington South Box, to be seen in a later picture. At far left, now much overgrown, are the extensive sidings, still with their 3, short-arm semaphore, mounted on a single post, now long disused. At right, about 8 minutes later, the driver had been given authority to proceed and in a cloud of 'clag', the 66588 got underway with is rake of 16 or so YKA, Rail Carriers. More of the sidings and the cross over, between up and down lines, can be seen in this picture, and this is one of the diminishing numbers of semaphore signalled installations which still exist around the country, particularly the hard-hit Beeching area of Lincolnshire, Norfolk and East Yorkshire.
A Civil Engineer's day Out at the coast on the old N.E.R. line at Bridlington & Carnaby - 0727+737
Another visit to the area just south of the east-coast seaside resort of Bridlington, in order to deal with other matters and during the time there, from Tues, 19th to Monday 25th, Network Rail were in the area, again apparently, attending to the old N.E.R.'s single track, further south, between Driffield and Beverley. Unfortunately, in a way I mean, there is no report of track movements on the section of line once outside Hull in the south and York in the north, though local trains reverse at Scarborough. This means it is difficult to know exactly where an Engineering train is lurking along the line until such time as it is due in a station, here it has to be Bridlington or Scarborough as the intermediate stations tend not to register the passage until its too late; this was chiefly the cause of missing two of the 5 daytime moves outwards, the inbound workings, 6Y29 & 6Y30, coming in very early Saturday morning at 00:50 and 01:24. As the weather was mainly good the whole week, photographing the moves facing south was fraught with bright, overhead sunlight as this 1st pair of 3 sets, shows. In the background of the view on the left, looking due south-west, the line curves around right and heads in a more westerly direction before turning gently south-west once more heading to Driffield where the line comes about to the south to head to Hutton Cranswick and on to Beverley. The engineering working looks to have been here a while and has come up form the possession between Driffield and Beverley with a pair of class 66 Freightliners, 66588 and at the back, 66505, top-and-tailing the engineering working, now heading towards York and then on to Doncaster. This is the 1st of the two moves out on Saturday, 6Y31, with the time-table showing departure from Bridlington Station, just behind the camera, in around 10 minutes at 14:30. On the track to the right of the front of the loco is an NR 'STOP' board mounted on the rail-head, the Freightliners of course being on the 'wrong line' here, will pass through the station and onto the single track section north to Bempton, Hunmanby and Filey and so on to Seamer Junction for reversal, then to head to York. A tall semaphore signal is at the track side for correct moves away from the camera on the left line and a MAS signal is in the right corner for moves into the station, all controlled from the large N.E.R. box, Bridlington South Box, to be seen in a later picture. At far left, now much overgrown, are the extensive sidings, still with their 3, short-arm semaphore, mounted on a single post, now long disused. At right, about 8 minutes later, the driver had been given authority to proceed and in a cloud of 'clag', the 66588 got underway with is rake of 16 or so YKA, Rail Carriers. More of the sidings and the cross over, between up and down lines, can be seen in this picture, and this is one of the diminishing numbers of semaphore signalled installations which still exist around the country, particularly the hard-hit Beeching area of Lincolnshire, Norfolk and East Yorkshire.