A railway enthusiast’s railtour train leaves the Knowsley Freight Terminal near Kirkby on Merseyside hauled by DB Cargo diesel locomotive no 66125
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Colin Wareing / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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2420 x 3630 px | 20.5 x 30.7 cm | 8.1 x 12.1 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
11 March 2017Location:
Knowsley near Kirkby England.More information:
On Saturday the 11th March 2017 Pathfinder tours ran a enthusiasts railtour from Didcot in Oxfordshire up to the North West of England. The tour was called The Waste Train as the idea was to visit two waste loading depots. The train first visited the Knowsley Freight Terminal near Kirkby on Merseyside. From here some of Merseyside’s domestic waste is containerised and loaded on to freight trains that take the waste to a incinerator on Tyneside. The 2nd place to be visited was Bredbury in Greater Manchester from where again domestic wasted is taken to Runcorn again for incineration in a waste to power plant. Both of these sites are not normally accessible on a passenger train. The train had a DB Cargo diesel locomotive on either end of the carriages to enable the train to run into sidings and always have a locomotive leading when they came out again. Here the train with locomotive no 66125 leading is leaving the siding alongside the single track railway line that runs from Kirkby to Rainford before going on to Wigan. Sister locomotive 66002 is on the rear of the train. The train ran under headcode 1Z31 and left Didcot at 06.41 that morning and returned at 23.04hrs.