Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue

[beast66606]

As the title says, on this day, I was a pigeon

 

06 July 2002 - a day which started with a fairly normal visit to Liverpool docks to photograph coals and various wagons, a pleasant event happened whilst there (which will appear one day in my Liverpool docks thread), this meant I chased a 60 to Huyton to get photos of it passing the LNWR cabin, on returning we (there were three of us but I will refer to us as I for this purpose) were heading through Mossley Hill towards the railway when a coal went passed, heading by a pair of 56s (which even in 2002 was very rare), the decision was made to head to Edge Hill and then the docks.

 

56060 and 56067 head 6F78, 12:19, Fiddlers Ferry Power Station - Liverpool Bulk Terminal empty hoppers

Bootle Branch Junction (Edge Hill)

 

 

Then a mad dashlegal drive to the docks, this was when I still had my permit.

 

Eventually the 56s arrived, this was a Saturday afternoon working which was also rare in those days, the regular shunter had gone home and so one of the supervisors had to be called out.

 

 

 

Running around

 

 

 

 

 

Time to propel the empties to the loader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then bring the train through the loader - notice the coal falling into the wagons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A kind lorry driver invited me to stand on the roof of his tractor unit !

 

Waiting to plunge - wonder who did that for this train ...

 

 

And 56060 and 56067 head 6F84, 16:30, Liverpool Bulk Terminal - Fiddlers Ferry Power Station off to generate electrickery

[69843]

Nice to see the Grids out on the duties that they performed so well on. Another excellent selection of useful shots there Beast.

[Richard_S]

Hi Dave

 

I've heard the tale of how you caught this working and never seen the images before. Thanks for taking the trouble to post them.