Wigan Album
Railway
8 Comments
Photo: walt
Item #: 17829
What is "Trip" work?
them were the days good old class 25 loco . if you look carefully You can see P JONES B RODGERS and D TABENER doing there bit to keep the railways moving.
You can just about make out the old "Iron Bridge" in the background
trip working was local freight movement .regular springs branch was 9t85 9 for unfitted FREIGHT T TRIP /TARGET 85
that 25is wrong line to wallgate?is it on track repairs rather than trip freight.
great observation i didnt even notice wrong line.could it be running round? Brake vans , consist and shunting pole may be clues .it would be very unlikely to be on sunday as bryn (home) has still to reach such a lofty league.
its a crane on back of the first brake van and there is another a bit further down, so think it could be a brake-down train, as the is a sidings and many derailments.
ta for good observations.i wonder was it lifting the redundant platform avoiding line?