Uploads from Kingmoor Klickr, tagged carlisle, with geodata

Denton Holme Goods

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:05:12 -0700

'K4' 2-6-0 No.61994 'The Great Marquess' hauls the 'Fellsman' charter empty coaching stock north out of Carlisle Citadel station on Wednesday 19th June 2013, passing the site of the former Denton Holme Goods Yard and glimpsed through the River Caldew bridge latticework of the former freight avoiding line.

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Almost a Bridge too Far

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:12:37 -0700

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Having photographed the 6L65 Sellafield-Carlisle Yard service in Cummersdale I thought my chance of getting another bite at the cherry was a bridge too far. Despite being unlucky with the sequence of traffic lights through Carlisle city, I arrived at the Etterby bridge, Kingmoor, just in time to make the necessary camera settings for depth of field and speed and was satisfied to capture 37259 yet again on this unusual working, near its home depot and the Carlisle Yard destination for the empty ballast wagons following weekend engineering work on the Cumbrian Coast Line. Thanks are due to the Carlisle PSB for regulating the service in the station area!

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Crossing the Eden

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:19:58 -0700

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Just a few minutes before I heard the distinctive Stanier 'hooter', signifying its departure from Carlisle Citadel, I was observing an otter swimming upstream close to the river bank where I was standing, and I don't know who was more surprised! Just before 8.00am on Saturday 14th June 2013 Stanier 'Black 5' 45407, with its support coach, heads from Grosmont to Fort William, to take up its summer duties on the West Highland 'Jacobite' services.

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Crown Street, Carlisle

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:24:27 -0700

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A juxtaposition of old and new in many respects. 'K1' class 2-6-0 No.61994 'The Great Marquess' crosses Crown Street, Carlisle, with the empty stock for the return 'Fellsman' charter to Lancaster on Wednesday 12th June 2013, catching a mother and child by total surprise. Not a 'composite' image; exactly as it happened. Sometimes the risk pays off. The stone wall to the right of the advertising hoarding looks suspiuciously like it has incorporated some stone blocks from the ancient city walls.

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Caldew River Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:15:55 -0700

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Direct Rail Services 20304 and 20302 accelerate away from the Border City through Cummersdale and across the recently repaired Caldew river bridge heading the late-running 6M22 Hunterston to Sellafield on Tuesday 4th June 2013.

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Eden Crossing

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:45:58 -0700

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Colas Railfreight 56302 heads the 6J37 Carlisle Yard to Chirk log train over the Eden river bridge, on the approach to Caldew Junction. The concrete bridge was construced by the LMS in 1942 to increase freight capacity north of Carlisle, the military ordnance depots in the region undoubtedly influencing the decision on the installation at the time. I am standing on the site of the former power station fireless locomotive steam charging shed, the coal sidings here at one time serving the now closed Willowholme Power Station adjacent to the south bank of the River Eden and fed by conveyor belt from the sidings. Noteworthy is the concrete 'refuge' in the foreground falling away from the main structure of the bridge due to erosion of the ground below.

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The Lakelander

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:23:21 -0700

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DB Schenker 90026 (with 67028 on the rear) heads the return 1Z63 16:53 Carlisle to London Euston 'Lakelander' charter near Carleton on Saturday 1st June 2013. A very pleasing locomotive and stock livery combination.

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Etterby Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:46:16 -0700

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Colas Railfreight 56302 winds its way along the freight lines, shortly after leaving Carlisle Yard, heading the 6J37 timber to Chirk on Saturday 1st June 2013. Signs of the steam age are still visible beneath the high arched bridge at Etterby where access/egress was gained with the former Scottish Region (Caledonian Railway) shed at Kingmoor, which was just to the right of this scene beyond the bridge. The DRS Kingmoor depot can be seen behind the log wagons.

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Eden River Idyll

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 03:23:03 -0700

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Sitting and listening to the vibrant birdsong and watching the salmon leaping for insects, it was hard to believe that this scene is less than one mile from a city centre. The tranquility of this riverside idyll was momentarily disturbed by the growl from the passing of West Coast Railway Company's 37516 powering the 5Z70 Carnforth to Fort William empty coaching stock move away from the Border City on Saturday 1st June 2013.

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Border City Departure

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:10:48 -0700

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Gresley 'A4' Pacific 60009 'Union of South Africa' gets underway from the Border City returning the 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' to Worcester on 27th May 2013.

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Poles Apart

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Wed, 29 May 2013 02:00:58 -0700

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The rotting tongue and groove wooden fencing panels and supporting rusting ironwork alongside the former taxi and Royal Mail access ramp to Carlisle Citadel station, complete with cobweb strand, and the neglected trackwork in the former coaching stock sidings, are in marked contrast to the immaculate presentation of John Cameron's 1930's-built Gresley A4 Pacific No.60009 'Union of South Africa'. Modern and traditional front locomotive headlamps are also a noteworthy comparison of age differences.

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Crown Street Cameo

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Tue, 28 May 2013 14:31:21 -0700

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Gresley 'A4' Pacific No.60009 'Union of South Africa' sets back onto the coaching stock forming the return 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' charter to Worcester Foregate Street. The juxtaposition of certain older elements of railway infrastructure and the modern tangle of overhead electric wires at the south end of Carlisle Citadel station makes for an interesting cameo, taken from what was the site of the former Crown Street Goods Depot.

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Heading for Ayr

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Tue, 28 May 2013 12:30:11 -0700

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DRS 37605 (with 37607 on the rear) working the 1Q14 Derby Railway Technical Centre-Blackburn-Ayr Falkland Yard across the Eden river bridge, Carlisle, on Tuesday evening 28th May 2013.

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Metal Bridge Steel

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Tue, 28 May 2013 08:54:43 -0700

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Making a welcome change from the usual dominating coal and intermodal workings, DB Schenker 66027 crosses the River Esk at Metal Bridge, Mossband, heading the 6E30 13:32 Dalzell to Tees Yard empty steel in the drizzle on Tuesday 28th May 2013.

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West Coast Departures

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Tue, 28 May 2013 00:22:17 -0700

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The crew of the 1Z56 Carlisle to Worcester Foregate Street 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' charter are anxious for the right away and Gresley 'A4' Pacific No.60009 'Union of South Africa' is well-prepared for the journey ahead. At forty minutes down on deaprture time, the charter service waits for a clear path to follow close behind in the tracks of a Glasgow to London Euston Vigin 'Pendolino' service which just gets underway and snakes out of Carlisle Citadel station.

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Whopping Great Logs

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Mon, 27 May 2013 14:53:21 -0700

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Colas Rail 56302 effortlessly powers the 6J37 Carlisle Yard to Chirk Kronospan loaded logs train through Carlisle Citadel station, passing Wapping Sidings, on Monday 27th May 2013.This 'Grid' was originally built at Crewe Works in 1983 as 56124 primarily for use on MGR coal traffic. The class 56 fleet was dealt a massive blow in 1998 with the introduction of new General Motors Class 66 locomotives, with a total of over half of the original fleet of 135 being stood down and stored at various locations around the country. Freight operator Jarvis Fastline returned 56124 to the mainline in the guise of 56302 following an overhaul, but due to a downturn in traffic Jarvis withdrew the loco in 2009 and it was subsequently stored in Roberts Road depot in Doncaster until 2010 when it was moved for further storage at Hitchin. 56302 was saved for preservation by Edward Stevenson and returned to mainline use, being hired to Colas Railfreight in late 2012 and painted in their striking orange, yellow & black colour scheme.

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Crown Street Shunt

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:28:02 -0700

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With the Crown Street road underbridge lights still on in Carlisle, it is 5.39 am on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 and Stanier 'Black 5' No.44932 has just arrived from Carnforth (10A) shed to take over the 'Fylde Coast Express' a little over two hours later. With cylinder drain cocks open and the exhaust filling Crown Street and Citadel station with smoke, Driver Gordon Hodgson opens the regulator and eases forward to Wapping Sidings to take on water and build up the fire in preparation for the journey ahead over the 'Midland Route' to Hellifield and on to Preston and Blackpool. What a way to start a most memorable day!

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Black Five Dawn

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:46:02 -0700

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Carnforth depot-based Stanier 'Black 5' 4-6-0 No.44932 has just arrived at Carlisle and the loco is being prepared to take over 'The Fylde Coast Express'from a 'Brush Type 4' which is bringing the train in to Ciatdel station from Kilmarnock. The Victorian cast-iron structure of the Rome Street Gasworks provides a suitably period backdrop with the clouds in the western sky picking up the colour tones from the rising sun. The sky shimmers aginst the heat from the boiler of the 'Black 5' as its fire is built up and the tender is topped up for the journey ahead over the Midland Route and on to Preston and Blackpool. The resident urban seagulls complete the dawn scene at 5:49am.

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Cummersdale Clag

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:01:30 -0700

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With Carlisle Cathedral standing proudly on the horizon, Direct Rail Services 57011 and 57007 (with 37194 DIT) power through Cummersdale at Blackwell Hall, the 6C22 06:40 Carlisle Kingmoor to Sellafield nuclear flask working (ex-6M60 from Seaton the previous afternoon). Friday 7th June 2013.

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Upperby Depot Remains

nobody@flickr.com (Kingmoor Klickr) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:26:56 -0700

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The usual middle of the day arrival for charter trains into Carlisle never makes for easy photography on a sunny day. I chose a high viewpoint, from the location of the former Upperby motive power depot engineman's lodgings (now a hotel), looking across the roofline of the long-abandoned Upperby motive power and carriage shed (12B), now becoming engulfed in trees. The site of the former roundhouse is just out of view to the bottom right. With the sun virtually straight down the track, DB Schenker 90026 reaches its destination heading the 1Z63 'Lakelander' charter from London Euston on Saturday 1st June 2013.

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