West Coast Electrics Archive
Being brought up within a mile of the West Coast Mainline as it climbs the fells I've been a life long fan of the unassuming but nevertheless mighty AC Electrics. From a young age watching them on the tough north bound restart out of Oxenholme, climbing Grayrigg and Shap and rolling into the Citadel. After getting my first SLR camera in 1998 I set about recording them in the Cumbrian landscape in the days when you didn't need any 'gen' as everything was loco hauled.
Now with all passenger services in the hands of units running a fairly intensive timetable we now only have a handful of daytime freights to go after.
Anyway, here's some of the dregs of whats left with some of my efforts from more happier times……
Read MoreNow with all passenger services in the hands of units running a fairly intensive timetable we now only have a handful of daytime freights to go after.
Anyway, here's some of the dregs of whats left with some of my efforts from more happier times……
90150 with 37603 dead inside pass Oxenholme with 4S54 16:18 Bassford Hall - Coatbridge freightliner, 2/5/2001.
The then EPS 37/6 was on its way to Scotland for the West Highland Line aluminium traffic.The 37 is now with DRS and Skoda50 having caught fire back in 2004 is now a stripped out shell at Crewe destine never to run again.
