19850223_ZD_AdrianNicols
Old King Coal, still a West Coast staple.
DB Schenker owned 66 221 sits in the humid afternoon sunshine on the up avoiding line alongside Carlisle Kingmoor Yard. It is waiting time with loaded coal train 6E68 15.02 New Cumnock Crowbandsgate Coal Terminal to Drax Power Station. The bulk of the west coast coal traffic tends to be operated by Freightliner Heavy Haul these days but DB Schenker still have regular flows from the Scottish Opencast mine loading points at New Cumnock and Greenburn running to Drax and West Burton with occasional workings to Ratcliffe and Cottam. The rest of DB Schenker's Anglo-Scottish coal traffic tends to involve coal to cement works using open box wagons with the notable exception of Hope Works in Derbyshire which can deal with the 102tonne HTA's more commonly associated with power station flows.
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