After a disappointing couple of hours at Salterwath, I was just about to pack up and go when, ping, out came the sun with some extraordinary light. A couple of 'Pendo's' on the way. so I captured this service heading north. This is 390006 forming the 9S77 13.40 Euston to Glasgow Central. 26/3/2025
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Continuing my uploads of all the Class 60s and this is one of my favourites. EW&S liveried 60010 skirts the sea wall at Dawlish with a well mixed 6V70, 10:00 Cliffe Vale - St Blazey clay empties. The date was Tuesday 10th July 2001.
No Realtime info back then, it was a matter of climbing up to one of the benches above Kennaway Tunnel and waiting in the late afternoon sun with my trusty Pentax P30n.
Still in our early 20s, Mrs G. and I were spending a week in the Oceans B&B (visible on the far left with its red turret roof). The accommodation was fairly basic, but with excellent views of the railway. I don't think I could pull off such a coup these days!
Tags: Dawlish 60010 Class 60 EWS 6V70 China Clay
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25320 slows for its call at Craven Arms with a Crewe to Cardiff working.4/10/1977.
Tags: 25320 CravenArms
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37259 runs alongside the Dovey Estuary as it passes Picnic Island at Penhelig with the 6W91 0905 Crewe Basford Hall - Tywyn autoballasters on 25th Jan 09....This was the last of three consecutive Sunday Cambrian engineering possessions which featured DRS tractors just south of Barmouth Bridge which were some of the last before the Network Rail 97s took over. Having been out in the small hours at Oakamoor ,i must have been keen and more able to stay awake, to have managed to drive out here the next morning on the off chance this would run.....so it was certainly a relief to see it come into sight round the coast.
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A clean 37668 crosses a private crossing near Little Treviscoe with empty CDAs for the china clay driers at Treviscoe. The train is running through an area known as the Cornish Alps: an area dotted with spoil heaps resulting from centuries of china clay mining in the area.
This was the second day of a two day trip to Cornwall. The rest of the UK was covered by a blanket of cloud, but when driving west, once over Dartmoor the cloud cleared and stayed away throughout the two days. We spent the days focussing on china clay traffic.
While in 1998 the ‘red death’ of new EWS class 66s were spreading fast across the country, we expected the china clay branches would be safe for a while, expecting that the branches would have weight limits that would prevent the use of 66s. In reality the first 66s arrived early in 1999 and by the end if that year the class 37s had gone from these workings.
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