| An afternoon and evening spent at Carlisle Citadel station. Many types of DMU along with the ubiquitous Voyagers and Pendolinos make up the passenger services here.
Freight from the north may be routed across the Settle and Carlisle route or the WCML, amongst others, making Carlisle an important and fairly busy junction. In fact, the afternoon proved quiet but traffic picked up significantly in the evening onwards. Locos pausing for crew changes enabled me to have my first try at night photography. Loco types seen included 20s, a 37, 57s, a 60, 66s and 92s. |
66508 and 57301 in the sidings south of Carlisle station. 1024x683 Buy Print |
A Pendolino approcahing from the South. 1024x683 Buy Print |
The steep incline just south of the station can be seen in this shot. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Northern Rail 142039 waits to depart for Lancaster from bay platform 2. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Northern Rail 156490 wearing vinyls advertising the End of Steam exhibition at the NRM. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Thunderbird 57305 has just been started and is about to leave in a southbound direction. This locomotive was a celebrity engine in 1977 as 47164, being adorned with painted Union Jack flags by Stratford depot to mark the Queen's Silver Jubilee. It was later numbered 47571 and then 47822. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Freightliner's 66508 is heading for Carlisle yard to pick up its train. 1024x683 Buy Print |
DRS 20301 'Max Joule' and 20305 run light engine towards the station. 1024x683 Buy Print |
158849 in Northern Rail livery. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Recently restored to traffic is 57012 in DRS livery. 1024x683 Buy Print |
57012 was the last of a batch of 12 57s converted from class 47s for Freightliner. It re-entered traffic in April 2000, having previously been 47204. 1024x683 Buy Print |
66415 on a DRS intermodal service. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Northern Rail's 142050. 1024x683 Buy Print |
There was a fair crowd of people waiting to board 153332 1024x683 Buy Print |
66555 has just come off the Hexham trans-Pennine line, on 4S15 10:46 Drax Power Station-Killoch empties. 1024x683 Buy Print |
92007 with EWS 'Enterprise' service 6X12 17:20 Carlisle Yard-Eastleigh 1024x683 Buy Print |
66563 was believed to be on 4S68 14:07 Drax-Killoch, this time routed via the S&C 1024x683 Buy Print |
Advertising vinyls on 158790. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Northern Rail's 158790. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Freightliner's 66513 and Strathclyde PTE liveried 156494. 1024x683 Buy Print |
66513 at the head of a southbound loaded coal train. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Mail unit 325011 heading South. 1024x683 Buy Print |
As the sun sets, a Pendolino stops at platform 1 with a northbound service. 1024x683 Buy Print |
158872 still carries 'Alphaline' colours from its days with the Arriva Wales and West TOC. 1024x683 Buy Print |
EWS 66162, heading a working of empty MGR coal wagons. These HAA wagons are now in the minority, having once been used in their thousands for coal trains. 1024x683 Buy Print |
66405 heads through the station with the early-running 4M48 18:59 Grangemouth-Daventry 1024x683 Buy Print |
Another shot of Malcolm liveried 66405 on the 'Tesco Express'.... 1024x683 Buy Print |
...a few minutes later the DRS intermodal service operated on behalf of Malcolm was powered by 66423. 1024x683 Buy Print |
86607 + 86613 double-head 4L81 19:41 Coatbridge-Tilbury 1024x683 Buy Print |
86607 + 86613 double-head 4L81 19:41 Coatbridge-Tilbury 1024x683 Buy Print |
92037 leads 6S73 16:12 Bescot Yard - Mosssend, with 57301 on the right. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Mail unit 325013 brings up the rear of this northbound service, operated by GBRf. 1024x683 Buy Print |
EWS 66196 with 6E92 15:00 Greenburn-Drax Power Station. 1024x683 Buy Print |
A Pendolino in platform 3 at Carlisle 1024x683 Buy Print |
60062 was hauling empty steel carriers on a service diverted from the ECML. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Another EWS Enterprise service, 6M66 18:20 Mossend-Wembley, hauled by 92019. 1024x683 Buy Print |
66201 and 92009 both pause at Carlisle Citadel with southbound freights. 1024x683 Buy Print |
92009 was hauling 4M67 17:40 Grangemouth-Trafford Park intermodal. 1024x614 Buy Print |
66201 with loaded MGR wagons forming 6M18 17:41 New Cumnock - Earles sidings 1024x644 Buy Print |
Freightliner's 66544 was hauling an unidentified southbound coal train. 1024x591 Buy Print |
Back to earlier in the day and 66544 had been seen heading north. 1024x683 Buy Print |
153301 in Northern Rail livery 1024x683 Buy Print |
57305 'John Tracy' stabled at Carlisle. 1024x683 Buy Print |
37688 running light engine in a southbound direction with 57305 in the background 1024x683 Buy Print |
Another shot of DRS 'heavyweight' 37688. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Northern Spirit livery still carried by 156481. 1024x683 Buy Print |
57305, 66508, 57301. 1024x683 Buy Print |
Ageing class 86/6s 86605+86628 double-head a southbound Freightliner service 1024x683 Buy Print |
