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A small series of images from the Farmer's Loop Transfer Site West.
Some of you may know the Fairbanks area transfer sites include a covered "reuse/recycle" platform, yet many useful items are still deposited in the dumpsters. But daily people pick through the dumpsters looking for somethings or another, and some of these people place items they find that they cannot use themselves, items that are in good condition, they place them on or outside of the dumpsters as shown here. They do this not for themselves but for others. Typically the people who do this are of simple means, or "poor", yet they have a compassion and an ethic that goes beyond those who treat our resources and goods with disregard and abandon.
Film: Fujicolor 200. Camera: Olympus Stylus Zoom.
Processing: Blue Moon Camera.
Epson Perfection4490 scan.
Freightliner Class 66 No 66598 heads north at South Muskham Church Lane Level Crossing on the ECML with the 0522 Felixstowe North FLT to Leeds FLT on 3rd January 2025
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
A well documented car, indeed it has appeared on several photostreams in the past but I must stress the past bit as it sadly was involved in an accident serious enough to write it off a short while later, and was spared out to other cars through a notable Datsun specialist. I was quite lucky to see this, I had just arrived in Brighton and the light was fading, and it had just parked up right next to me. Neither the first or last person to take a photo of it but happy enough to see it before its untimely demise, most likely the last Laurel of this age still in daily use.
A short series of images from the Farmer's Loop Transfer Site West.
Film: Fujicolor 200. Camera: Olympus Stylus Zoom. Processing: Blue Moon Camera.
Epson Perfection4490 scan.
90008 and 90010 rest for the afternoon having not long arrived with 4M45 from Felixstowe, the pair having taken over the service from Ipswich. They headed back there later that evening with the 4L60 19:46 departure..
Colas Railfreight Class 60, 60047 is seen leaving the East Coast Mainline at Newark Crossing East Junction and heading towards Lincoln with a rake of empty EWS oil tanks.
6E82 12:16 Rectory junction - Lindsey oil refinery.
Freightliner Class 66, 66569 is seen crossing the Newark Flat Crossing on the East Coast Mainline with a intermodal working.
4L87 08:47 Leeds FLT - Felixstowe North FLT.
Spending the Bank Holiday weekend at Garston FLT, former Greater Anglia 90014 'Over the Rainbow' is seen sat awaiting Tuesday morning. The loco is currently planned to work 4O14 05:36 off Garston to Southampton Maritime (as far as Crewe Basford Hall) on Tuesday.
The loco arrived in the early hours of Saturday on 4M98 23:09 ex Crewe BH and, due to engineering work on in the Runcorn area, has unusually spent the weekend here. The loco had worked 4M98 the day before also before returning back again on 4014 on Friday morning.
The terminal closed in March 1991. The whole area is now used for the vehicle check-in for ferries to Ireland. Freightliner services were initially diverted to the Cawoods terminal at Ellesmere Port and, following that terminals closure, transferred to Seaforth, Liverpool. The two ship to shore cranes had a new liife in Dublin Port.
1999 Audi A4 1.9TDI SE.
Previously registered T975 AFC.
285,780 miles at its last MoT test in January 2022.
Photo with kind permission of [https://www.flickr.com/photos/34679063@N04].
For a short while, there was an opportunity to get a messy shot of morning departures from Garston FLT, obtained around the back of St Michaels Church. These days the immediate foreground has grown up all out of control plus the service depicted here, 4K64, is now a light engine movement Mon-Fri.
In this shot though, 90044 is seen slowly edging it's way out of the terminal after shunting the 2 halves of the train together.
In the background lingers 66591 which was the Shunter that week. For a period in 2015-2016 Freightliner would send a loco down on a Monday morning (via 4F45) which would stay at Garston until Saturday (barring failures or exams) for shunting. The days of a dedicated Class 08 having long gone. 08624 having the honor of being the last FL Gronk allocated here in the early 2000's which in turn had displaced long term BR Blue resident 08891, which was released for an overhaul.
86614 and 86628 can also be seen in the background. These would later run light engine to Ditton before working 4L92 to Felixstowe (as far as Ipswich).
Freightliner Class 70 70019 departs from Garston FLT running light engine 0F72 to Ditton Reception Sidings. 66541, the current shunt engine at Garston, lurks in the background.
I haven't posted anything from the FLTS for quite a while. Found some photo stuff and some large color transparencies on the ground outside a dumpster. So naturally I shot them. Transparencies to follow.
Fairbanks Alaska, Farmer's Loop Transfer Station. Found discarded art canvases. I sort of wish I would have taken the one on the left.... I think it would have looked good on a high spot in our garage.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the FLTS, you can view the set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/dr_ozda/sets/72157617519670066/
And a tip of my mouse to bcg~art.