Carnforth And Preston For The Day

Photo and Video Report

47802 Passes though Carnforth Station with 6C53 to Sellafield from Crewe Running about 20 mintures early with 5 flasks the train was worked tosay the 3rd november by 37038 37194 37510 47237.

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Shortly after the 47 had gone, we did not know if we had missed the sandite as it is normall earliy and was booked just before we got there, But in the end came 1 hour down with the sun out by this time and sat in the station for a bit in the sun.

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The 37's went into the loop for a few minutes to chnage ends ready to come back out and head once again upto Kingmoor via helifiled, This is one of the largest images i have ever uploaded to my site cause of webspace ect so may take a while to load, the image has not been edited apart from the slight watermark.

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37029 Power away on the rear into the station at Carnforth on 3J06, Image also not edited just as it was taken

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Shot of 37029 on the rear again as they go away not a great shot as sun haddent come up far enough yet behind the EWS staff box another thing not to like them for :-p

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86613 86604 Power though following 90016 which went north about an hour earlier sun still slowly rising in the sky.

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66411 Follows the 86's north a while later just running a few minutes behing time.Loaded fully as normall.

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92022 Powers though Carnforth with the loaded logs to warrington from mossend, The 92 had ealier in the week worked two doncaster on a very late running enterprise

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One of the new livered northen 156's turned up so though it was a good chance of a shot as it was full sun.

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One of the main reasons for heading to carnforth turned out to not be so good with the new Dreds not working its not looking good for DRS heritage traction and later in the day which was videoed 37610 taking 4 47's back to crewe which will go off lease.

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66414 On the rear of 6C51 from sellafield which ran slowly into the loop at carnforth then went after a few seconds

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90042 Returns south for the second time in less than 24 hours so has also been doing a lot of work

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37229 Sits in Preston station a few mintures down acording to trust 37029 was still on the train but was not and 37229 has been put back on which was a change form seeing 37029 again for the third time in two days. And the strage green light turned up on the bogies for sum reason onlt does it with sandite train lol will have to be edited out.

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37087 Sits on the front of the consist waiting to depart from preston with nice bit of thrash, Which can deffently class it as a beast again.

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Only one video from the day is one which is on the video page of 37610 47812 47815 47848 47843 on 0Z30 from Kingmoor back to carilsle as DRS do not need them any more, Which was two dark to photograph as we had left preston on the way home and ended up at layland but nice bit of thrash and horn!!

Thanks Oliver