Today would prove extremely interesting in terms of freight operations around Leeds. We picked the car up from Leeds again, not being a 4x4 meant we could not do much trackside driving, but we drove over to Leeds Midland road where there were one or two Freightliner 66's stood ready for service, we saw where all the vandals had broke into the site and stolen all of the copper.
We stood on the bridge overlooking Stourton and Leeds Midland Road and watched various trains go past at high speed, and, yes you guessed it! the tamper we saw yesterday, now learning the Leeds - York section of line. Anthony then took me to the old Stourton box which can still be switched in if York IECC goes down, it was very smelly, dank and....empty! we watched some trains approach on the panel and then went outside and watched them pass, we then decided it was time for dinner.
We bought our dinner from the local Fish & Chip shop and parked up directly next to a Freightliner 66
We had previously seen this loco doing shunting movements at the container depot in Stourton, it was amazing to see a 66 up close. We then remembered that we still had to watch the signallers change over at Hebden Bridge, so pedal to the metal and we drive over to Hebden Bridge, where we meet a nice talkative chap on duty, about 15 minutes later his relief arrives on time on his bike, and, almost as if a curse, the tamper we have seen 3 times previously arrives at Hebden Bridge learning Manchester - Hebden Bridge, and we watched him turn around at Hebden Bridge.
After a brilliant day, we call it a day and head home.
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