Rainhill Trials #2
Still finding its feet after replacing a number of class 66 Shed diagrams on these workings, GB Railfreight Tug 60021, still sporting its Colas livery and one of several recently acquired by the company, passes Rainhill on Merseyside hauling the 11.14am Liverpool Biomass Terminal - Drax wooden pellets train (6E10).
Rainhill station is one of the oldest in the world opening in 1830, making it 189 years old when this shot was taken. The current station buildings are a little younger - built in 1860-1868 by the London & North Western Railway, they are now Listed Status.
Info courtesy of Wikipedia:
The Rainhill Trials were an important competition run in October 1829, to test George Stephenson's argument that locomotives would provide the best motive power for the then nearly-completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Five locomotives were entered, running along a 1 mile length of level track at Rainhill, which then lay in Lancashire. Stephenson's Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials, and was declared the winner. The directors of the railway accepted that locomotives should operate services on their new line, and George and Robert Stephenson were given the contract to produce locomotives for the railway.
12.24pm, 18th February 2019
Rainhill Trials #2
Still finding its feet after replacing a number of class 66 Shed diagrams on these workings, GB Railfreight Tug 60021, still sporting its Colas livery and one of several recently acquired by the company, passes Rainhill on Merseyside hauling the 11.14am Liverpool Biomass Terminal - Drax wooden pellets train (6E10).
Rainhill station is one of the oldest in the world opening in 1830, making it 189 years old when this shot was taken. The current station buildings are a little younger - built in 1860-1868 by the London & North Western Railway, they are now Listed Status.
Info courtesy of Wikipedia:
The Rainhill Trials were an important competition run in October 1829, to test George Stephenson's argument that locomotives would provide the best motive power for the then nearly-completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Five locomotives were entered, running along a 1 mile length of level track at Rainhill, which then lay in Lancashire. Stephenson's Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials, and was declared the winner. The directors of the railway accepted that locomotives should operate services on their new line, and George and Robert Stephenson were given the contract to produce locomotives for the railway.
12.24pm, 18th February 2019