Image 40047, down freight, Dent station
40047, down freight, Dent station
40047, down freight, Dent station An absolutely superb mixed freight from a bygone era passes through the closed Dent station. I would have thought that this would be an unfitted freight given the vintage of the wagons in the consist but close examination of the rear of the train does not indicate a brake van. 40047 is leading the train on the final part of the more gentle climb of the fabled 'Long Drag' from the south with just a few miles to the summit at Ais Gill. I had haulage behind 40047 in March 1984 when it was one of the locomotives working The Conway Crusader railtour along with 50018 'Resolution'. The locomotive was withdrawn in late 1984 but lingered on eventually being cut up by January 1986 at Doncaster. Notice the cars parked in the former station car park, of particular interest, is a Fiat 124 (or, is it an early Lada version?) behind the Rover SD1, the inevitable Mini and a Scimitar GTE parked by the fence at the rear. Keywords: 40047 down freight Dent station
40047, down freight, Dent station An absolutely superb mixed freight from a bygone era passes through the closed Dent station. I would have thought that this would be an unfitted freight given the vintage of the wagons in the consist but close examination of the rear of the train does not indicate a brake van. 40047 is leading the train on the final part of the more gentle climb of the fabled 'Long Drag' from the south with just a few miles to the summit at Ais Gill. I had haulage behind 40047 in March 1984 when it was one of the locomotives working The Conway Crusader railtour along with 50018 'Resolution'. The locomotive was withdrawn in late 1984 but lingered on eventually being cut up by January 1986 at Doncaster. Notice the cars parked in the former station car park, of particular interest, is a Fiat 124 (or, is it an early Lada version?) behind the Rover SD1, the inevitable Mini and a Scimitar GTE parked by the fence at the rear. Keywords: 40047 down freight Dent station


An absolutely superb mixed freight from a bygone era passes

through the closed Dent station. I would have thought that this would be an unfitted freight given the vintage of the wagons in the consist but close examination of the rear of the train does not indicate a brake van. 40047 is leading the train on the final part of the more gentle climb of the fabled 'Long Drag' from the south with just a few miles to the summit at Ais Gill. I had haulage behind 40047 in March 1984 when it was one of the locomotives working The Conway Crusader railtour along with 50018 'Resolution'. The locomotive was withdrawn in late 1984 but lingered on eventually being cut up by January 1986 at Doncaster. Notice the cars parked in the former station car park, of particular interest, is a Fiat 124 (or, is it an early Lada version?) behind the Rover SD1, the inevitable Mini and a Scimitar GTE parked by the fence at the rear.