60059 worked 6Z40 Milford - Warrington today. And yes, 4 more HTAs have recently been fitted with buffers for the restart of traffic from LBT. The original 6 conversions are now in use on the New Cumnock to Earles coal.
There were about half a dozen Prestwins sat in the scrapyard next to St Helens Junction station in the mid 1980s.
Sodium Tripolyphosphate from Corkickle to Port Sunlight and Warrington was one traffic flow until replaced by PCAs.
Just caught up with this. No I'm not (ta Dave!). Do I need to be from round there?
A couple of unusual jobs for 60011 last Friday and Saturday:
http://stuarts-phots.fotopic.net/p66236883.html
http://stuarts-phots.fotopic.net/p66356845.html
I'm not from Oakenshaw either
There were 3 60s through Scunthorpe yesterday afternoon:
60040 on 6E32 Preston - Lindsey empty bitumen
60009 on 6D49 Ferrybridge - Lindsey empty heavy fuel oil
60011 on 6D80 Neville Hill - Lindsey empty traction fuel
Add to that 60010 some time later on the return Jarrow tanks.
Assuming that a 66 can be made available...
Seeing how 60074 cannot haul anything except itself then I suppose there is some sense in using it for RL duties.
Not exactly. Fastline never had regular work from LBT to Ratcliffe. The LBT - Ironbridge flow has not yet restarted with any operator, although DBS ran a train to Ironbridge last weekend for a weights & measures test.