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Having crossed Farrington Junction and approaching Leyland station, Colas 56096 is seen at the head of the 6Z30 Carlisle Yard to Warrington Arpley wagon transfer this afternoon. In transit are 3 PCA 'Silver Bullet' wagons.
My thanks go to Tim Moran for the heads up on this one.
66774 heads north along the Ribble Valley at Rimington with 6S94 04:28 Wembley to Irvine Caledonian Paper china clay slurry. 11/7/2018.
Now boarding at gate D71, Cathay SilverBullet service to HKG...don't see that everyday I don't think.
37406 works the Corpach tanks on a local trip to Fort William having detached from the sleeper to do so.
GB Railfreight Class 92, 92033 leads classmate 92018 along with 66722 "Sir Edward Watkin" (both DIT) through an icy Hartford on 6O74 17:55 Irvine Caledonian Paper to Dollands Moor.
These were the empty china clay slurry tanks from the loaded train that ran a day late on Thursday 17th December and presented an opportunity to move the two 92s south to Wembley.
The positioning move to reduce the number of 92s in Scotland with the sleeper back down to one train in each direction per night, and also to facilitate 018’s onward transfer to Crewe ETD the following day for attention.
The 92s had earlier ran from Polmadie to Carlisle on 0M05.
66722 worked the train from the paper mill in Irvine to Carlisle and would also take the tanks onwards to Dollands Moor after the 92s came off at Wembley.
This was the first time since the night of 23rd August 2018 that a 92 had worked the china clays on the WCML (038 working 6M74 from Carlisle to Wembley on that occasion). Once a regular haunt of the Dysons, the flow is now the preserve of 66s, with the loaded train going via the (unwired) Settle & Carlisle route.
[To see a video of the working please click HERE.]
92032 'IMechE Railway Division' at Red Bank on the first GBRf operated 6S94 02:03 Dollands Moor - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp tanks on 04/01/17.
92044 'Couperin' + 66727 'Maritime One' at Preston on 6S94 02:30 Dollands Moor - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 12/04/17.
Photos inside and around a sadly neglected QR 2000 class "Silver Bullet" railmotor, built in 1970/71. I can find evidence of this now marooned train running in 2003, but I doubt it will ever run again.
Gbrf duo 92032 `IMechE Railway Division` + 66705`Golden Jubilee` pass Beck foot working 6S94 the 02.03 Dollands moor to Irvine silver bullets 07/06/2017.
There was night skiing on the Silver Bullet run of the Blue Mountain Ski Resort - despite the fact that we've had unusually warm weather, which made for a green Christmas.
Thanks to Skire for this shot. I vividly remember that day, Snatch popped down to see who these 2 upstarts were, and later told us he'd done the beats for SilverBullet - 20 Seconds To Comply. Rise did a nice piece that day. Last time i saw him was at 'Joe Friday's' club Westcliff circa 1994. Need him and Daz out urgently.......
37418 on the Corpach to Fort William yard trip with the not so silver bullets in tow.
An old camera and crop so not the best of shots.
92032 ‘IMechE Railway Division’ + 66727 ‘Maritime One’ at Euxton on 6S94 05:12 Wembley Euro Freight Ops Centre - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 25/10/17.
66733 Cambridge PSB heads north at Waitby (north of Kirkby Stephen), working 6S94 Wembley - Irvine Caledonian Paper china clay slurry, the so-called "silver bullets" when the wagons were clean.
There is nowhere on the S&C you can photograph this train with the sun on the front (unless it runs very late), but this is probably the closest. Having got into position, I realised that if I used the pole I could reduce the amount of grass in the immediate foreground and also include the full height of the dry stone railway boundary wall. I nearly went back to the car to get it, but decided that it would give me an excuse to come back!
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GB Railfreight's MD, John Smith, rides shotgun alongside Driver Jones in Class 66, 66787, as it hauls the loaded Wednesdays-Only china clay slurry tanks through a grey and damp Acton Bridge en route from Dollands Moor to Irvine Caledonian Paper as 6S94.
Back to the usual 6S94 tanks this week as GB Railfreight Class 66, 66703 "Doncaster PSB 1981-2002" hauls the china clay slurry tanks through Hartford on 6S94 04:28 Wembley Yard to Irvine Caledonian Paper. Driver Willy brightening up a dull and damp morning with a little tune and a big wave!
In a typical show of inter-FOC cooperation down at the Tunnel, the tanks had been brought through "Le Hole" overnight by DB Cargo with their two remaining active Red Class 92s - 015 and 042.
66782, with GBRf Charity Railtours branding, at Lostock Hall on 04:28 Wembley Euro Freight Ops Centre - Irvine Caledonian Paper via the Settle & Carlisle clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 01/08/18.
Exactly half the size -
Flower's "Silver Bullet" 1957 BMW Isetta parked next to the adults at the Bob's Big Boy Downey Valentine's Day Car Show on Sunday, February 14th, 2010.
66424 hauling failed 92032 'IMechE Railway Division' at Greenholme on 0S94 16:45 Grayrigg – Carlisle Kingmoor TMD after the 92 failed hauling 6S94 02:03 Dollands Moor - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp ‘Silver Bullet’ tanks on 05/04/17.
66723 / ZA723 ‘Chinook’ + 92044 at Preston on 6S94 05:16 Wembley Euro Freight Ops Centre - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 23/08/17.
Another classic Cathay Pacific Cargo scheme that I would love to see come back on a CX 747-8F. Calling this one the "Silver Bullet."
B-HUP
Cathay Pacific Cargo
Boeing 747-467F
"Silver Bullet"
PANC- Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
October 20, 2012
The 6S55 WO 09:14 Burngullow ECC to Irvine, Caladonian Paper service was recorded passing Abergavenny in the care of a brace of Cardiff Canton's Civil Link liveried [Dutch] Class 37/0s, 37207 & 37035. The train comprised purpose-built TIA 'silver bullet' bogie tanks provided for this china clay service, that was the longest distance trainload freight operation on BR at 550 miles each way.
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Foi meio corrido, escrevi o texto ontem, fiz as unhas metade de madrugada e metade de manhã, as fotos no começo da tarde, a edição no fim, e só consegui postar agora à noite...
Amanhã viajo, devo passar um tempinho ausente, mas nem darão falta desta indivídua de recém-completos-vinte-e-cinco-anos que vos escreve...
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1 x n°7, So Smooth Base Coat
1 x Fortalecedor 4 x 1, Fortilon
2 x 336, Kiko
Flocos dourados com Guilty, Zoya, e prateados com Silver Bullet, BBF
2 x Verniz Extra Brilho, Impala.
An immaculate 66785 is seen leading its train of "bullet tank" wagons off of the Irvine Paper Mill branch as it begins the overnight journey to Wembley. This is the first leg of a long journey back to Antwerp (Belgium) where the wagons will be reloaded with Kaolin slurry.
The 66 will cover the Irvine to Wembley and Wembley to Dollands Moor legs before handing over to Class 92's for the trip through the Channel Tunnel. The Class 92s will be relived by European locomotives in Frethun.
Class 92s used to work the train between Carlisle and Dollands Moor with the 66 tucked inside for the unwired GSW leg, but this practice has been abandoned and a 66 now works all 400 (electrified) miles between Carlisle and Dollands Moor - a bit ridiculous if you ask me...
66785 is one of the 10 ex-DB Cargo locomotives acquired by GBRf a year or so ago. It was renumbered from 66132 on 18/05/2018 and has since been painted into the GBRf corporate colours and had modifications that bring up to a similar spec to the rest of GBRf's fleet.
92044 ‘Couperin’ + 66724 ‘Drax Power Station’ at Preston on 6S94 05:12 Wembley Euro Freight Ops Centre - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 20/12/17.
Ex QR Steam Locomotive 1072 is stabled alongside ex QR Railcar 2016 preserved by Zig Zag Railway on 7-6-09
1072, named City of Lithgow is a BB18 1/4 class 4-6-2 built by Walkers Limited in Maryborough which entered service in 1956. The loco was withdrawn from service in March 1970 and sold to Zig Zag Railway in 1975.
Railcar 2016 is one of 42 built for Queensland Railways by Commonwealth Engineering between 1956 and 1971.
Most were withdrawn in the early 1990's with the last withdrawn in January 2000.
24 of this class survive with Zig Zag Railway owning 7.
Another classic Cathay Pacific Cargo scheme that I would love to see come back on a CX 747-8F. Calling this one the "Silver Bullet."
B-HUP
Cathay Pacific Cargo
Boeing 747-467F
"Silver Bullet"
PANC- Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
October 20, 2012
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I still miss Alaska really badly, and I'm struggling to believe that we're less than six months from it being a decade ago!
I guess a few things have changed at Ted Stevens Int'l Airport, Anchorage, since then, and I imagine the 744F is now a slightly less frequent visitor than it was back then?
One of Cathay Pacific Cargo's Silver Bullets is seen getting airborne.
GB Railfreight's Class 66, 66720 in its special "Night and Day" livery hauls the loaded china clay tanks (6S94) through Moore on their way to Irvine Caledonian Paper in Scotland.
66720's livery was unveiled in a special ceremony at the Nene Valley Railway on 3 July 2011 and was designed by a GBRf staff member's then six year-old daughter, Emily, who won a competition to design a locomotive at a previous GBRf family day.
GB Railfreight Class 66, 66707 "Sir Sam Fay" leads the china clay slurry tanks north past Moore Lane with the loaded 6S94 working to the Irvine Caledonian Paper mill.
The flow usually operates on a Wednesday, however with SNCF strikes disrupting traffic through France, this train was running unusually on a Thursday.
The china clay empties usually run from Irvine Caledonian Paper to Wembley Yard overnight on a Thursday so not a working that's often captured. However, due to disruption to the flow caused by SNCF strikes, the tanks were being returned on a Sunday afternoon / evening path.
GB Railfreight Class 66, 66706 "Nene Valley" clatters south with the rusty 'silver bullets' through a foggy Hartford station running as 6D74 (empties are usually 6M74).
DB Schenker 92042 passes just south of Kensington Olympia whilst working 6B45 Wembley to Dollands Moor china clay tanks
The Caledonian Paper Mill at Meadowhead south east of Irvine was built in 1988 and opened in 1989. It was rail connected from the outset with a 1 mile long branch off the Kilmarnock to Barassie line. Rail facilities were provided on site for inbound timber and china clay slurry traffic and outbound finish paper products loaded from a covered warehouse. To serve railway operations on site Caledonian Paper Plc bought a brand new 0-6-0DH from the Hunslet Engine Co. Leeds. (HE 9092/1988). The locomotive is seen here in the China Clay discharge terminal and seeing as it had to deal with lengthy air braked trains it was provided with a substantial compressor mounted on one end, it also turned out to be a historic locomotive as it was the last standard gauge diesel shunter built at the companies Leeds factory. The mill was served from the outset by the legendary "Silver Bullets" the longest single freight flow in the UK at the time bringing China Clay slurry from Burngullow in Cornwall twice a week. It was conveyed in the iconic stainless steel tanks built for this traffic in 1989 by Société ANF-Industrie at Blanc-Misseron in France. The 26 wagons in the fleet were owned by Tiger Rail Leasing and leased exclusively to ECC (English China Clays Ltd).
Whenever I see one of these little Airstreams on the road, it always gets my attention. I'm as enamored as anyone, I guess, of something that seems to represent an easier time and yet still has the promise of future adventures. I always wish that I were pulling that Silver Bullet, heading for, I don't know, anywhere but where I am. And that that means I could also be anyone else too. After passing the driver hauling this particular RV, though, I had the feeling that this wasn't a vacation for them, rather that it might be home and that they didn't necessarily know where they would land. Both car and its haul had seen better days; driver too by the looks of him. There was something so sad and serious about all the car's occupants that as we pulled ahead, I had to say a little prayer that if things were as I imagined, with time and travel they would eventually arrive at a better life.
90037 ‘Spirit of Dagenham’ + 90021 at Brock on 6S94 02:33 Dollands Moor - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 12/08/15.
Photos inside and around a sadly neglected QR 2000 class "Silver Bullet" railmotor, built in 1970/71. I can find evidence of this now marooned train running in 2003, but I doubt it will ever run again.
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Recorded passing South Brent on a dull July Sunday in 1989, Railfreight Class 37/5 pairing 37675 'William Cookworthy' & 37674 had charge of the 6S55 11:48 Burngullow ECC to Irvine clay slurry tanks. These purpose-built TIA stainless steel bogie tanks [silver bullets] were introduced in 1989 to work the twice weekly movement of china clay slurry to the Caledonian Paper plc factory in Scotland, each return service being worked throughout by a pair of Class 37s.
All images on this site are exclusive property and may not be copied, downloaded, reproduced, transmitted, manipulated or used in any way without expressed written permission of the photographer. All rights reserved – Copyright Don Gatehouse