Carlisle trains, June 2012
50 photos taken on 29 June, the morning after a day of heavy rainstorms, and the resulting landslips and washouts, had caused severe disruption on the Anglo-Scottish lines. The WCML was blocked near Oxenholme and at Tebay, the ECML near Berwick, and the Newcastle - Carlisle line near Haltwhistle. Rather surprisingly, the Settle & Carlisle was unscathed,
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DR 73904 Thomas Telford, 6T42, Carlisle, Fri 29 June 2012 - 0953. Swietelsky Babcock Rail's Plasser & Theurer 08-4x4/4S-RT switch & crossing tamper, which had been stabled in Wapping sidings, sets off for Oxenholme.
