With five different types of wagon, this train could easily be mistaken for a Speedlink service, but this picture was taken nearly two years after the wagonload Speedlink network was abandoned. 47312 passes Winwick on 25 March 1993 with the 6S61 Warrington Arpley to Dalry, which would cross the Pennines via the Calder Valley route, and then head to Scotland via the East Coast Mainline. This was because some of the traffic was dropped off at Tyne Yard. The red sheeted hoppers at the rear are conveying salt from Middlewich to Dalry. They were notoriously leaky, and the salt often caused track circuit problems! |