Carstairs

DRS 66412 with a container train bound for Grangemouth heads north from Carstairs on 8 March 2007, having travelled via Edinburgh and the ECML. The train is about to pass Freightliner class 86 locomotives 86610+86612 on the Coatbridge - Basford Hall containers, which in turn is in the process of overtaking an EWS class 66 held at a red light with a consignment of coal from nearby Ravenstruther destined for Drax power station.

Location: Carstairs

Original line: Caledonian Railway

Photographer: John Furnevel

Contact photographer: John Furnevel

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Date: 08/03/2007

Image number: 24740

Tags: Class 66 Co-Co Diesel-electric General Motors
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