Hidden promise
From the days when Ellesmere Port was receiving shiploads of coal for onward transport to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, a Freightliner class 70, unit 70002, powers up the bank towards the little used Ince & Elton station hauling a rake of empty hoppers seeking out a refill of the black stuff.
The train is the 7.26am Fiddlers Ferry PS - Ellesmere Port Manisty Wharf (4F02) and, at just after 8am on a September morning, it's seemingly coming almost directly out of the sun. The train was scheduled to return some four hours later, fully loaded, under the headcode 6F02.
Sadly for the enthusiast this freight flow has long since ceased to operate, and of course Fiddlers Ferry PS is no longer operational either having closed in 2020.
Ince & Elton station (from where I took the shot) hardly fares any better - it currently sees just two passengers trains per day: the 6.03am to Ellesmere Port, and the 6.25am to Leeds. Little point in buying a Day Return ticket then.
The shot replaces an upload of a few years ago with this more artistic interpretation.
8.08am, 2nd September 2014
Hidden promise
From the days when Ellesmere Port was receiving shiploads of coal for onward transport to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, a Freightliner class 70, unit 70002, powers up the bank towards the little used Ince & Elton station hauling a rake of empty hoppers seeking out a refill of the black stuff.
The train is the 7.26am Fiddlers Ferry PS - Ellesmere Port Manisty Wharf (4F02) and, at just after 8am on a September morning, it's seemingly coming almost directly out of the sun. The train was scheduled to return some four hours later, fully loaded, under the headcode 6F02.
Sadly for the enthusiast this freight flow has long since ceased to operate, and of course Fiddlers Ferry PS is no longer operational either having closed in 2020.
Ince & Elton station (from where I took the shot) hardly fares any better - it currently sees just two passengers trains per day: the 6.03am to Ellesmere Port, and the 6.25am to Leeds. Little point in buying a Day Return ticket then.
The shot replaces an upload of a few years ago with this more artistic interpretation.
8.08am, 2nd September 2014