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……
With the light fading fast 87002 Royal Sovereign with WSMR liveried 67012 A Shropshire Lad dead in tow thunders through Oxenholme with the return leg of the 2010 3 Peaks Challenge charter from Fort William to Euston which the Sovereign took over from Braidhurst Loop at Motherwell, 26/6/2010.
The Sovereign hauling an 11 coach train + the dead 67 performed with flying colours. In fact it was being held up by a "modern" 3 coach 185 unit which was let out in front of it at Carstairs. Progress!!
