Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Steam-hauled freight on the Settle and Carlisle



70039 Sir Christopher Wrenn hauling a freight moves off northbound followed by an 8F Southbound. To the north end of the loops the double headed 'Blackburn Rails' continues the climb to Ais Gill.

2 comments:

Democracy Man said...

Great video

Tim (Kalyr) said...

Interesting contrast to the Shap one you posted a few days ago.

Then as now the two lines serve very different purposes; Shap sees the faster express freight, while the Settle and Carlisle sees the slower-moving mineral traffic that would have got in the way of the WCML's passenger traffic.

Given the current volume of coal traffic along the S&C, it would have been very short-sighted to have closed it in the 1980s, as so nearly happened.