Saturday 28 September 2024

Freight on Shap, 31st August 2024

 


66623 Lest We Forget running downhill with a typically early-running  6H51 11:31 Hardendale Qry Shap (Fhh) - Tunstead Sdgs.

The flow of limestone to the kilns at Shap appears to have stopped two weeks after this, as the quicklime product was sent to the Port Talbot blast furnace which is now being shut down. The kilns may in future start a flow to steel making in the Netherlands.


The consist was of empty MWA wagons, with 81.70.5891.533-8 as the last wagon, which was seen in Eastleigh on a rarer working on 22nd September 2023.


88010 Aurora leading 4S43 06:40 Daventry Drs (Tesco) - Mossend Euroterminal.


This is the Tesco working, here a container is seen on IDA wagon 39.70.4901.068-9.