Present day freight on Cumbrian coast route

[TravisM]

Having recently purchased several Accurascale Class 37/4’s and Bachmann DRS Mk2f’s, I’ve moved my still not started layout from Lincolnshire to the Cumbrian coast line.

 

Apart from the nukes with their flasks, PFA’s with low level waste containers, is their any other regular freight workings over the line?

 

I’m tempted to apply some modellers licence as I have 16 BYA’s which I was going to use for a Boston steel train, and I was wondering if I could use them on a steel train to/from Workington steel plant (if it’s still working) or the docks.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[big jim]

There is a colas working with slurry wagons to and from Workington but other than the DRS stuff and one offs like the weedsprayer nothing that I’m aware of

 

workinfton steel works is long gone, wouldn’t even know it was there anymore!

 

there is the Dalston tanks but that only goes just outside carlisle 

[TravisM]

24 minutes ago, big jim said:

There is a colas working with slurry wagons to and from Workington but other than the DRS stuff and one offs like the weedsprayer nothing that I’m aware of

 

workinfton steel works is long gone, wouldn’t even know it was there anymore!

 

there is the Dalston tanks but that only goes just outside carlisle 

Thanks @big jim, the video clip is most useful and as for the steel train, I’ll apply some modelling licence and it’s a new steel flow, originating in the docks.

[newbryford]

There were a series of stone trains for the capping of the Drigg repositories. (They seem to run for a couple of weeks at a time)

Quite a few different wagon types used over the years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You could invoke rule 1 and imagine the proposed new opencast mine has opened

Edited July 27, 2023 by newbryford

[CKPR]

Workington docks are still rail connected and generate traffic, both originating and terminating,  from time to time.