DRS Civil Engineering train & GBRf L.E. 73 move at Kilnhurst - 2088

            Having 'fluffed' the locale for the 1st working on this indifferent afternoon and with not much else about, the real reason for being out here was now due not too long after passage of the DRS. This 1st shot shows the arrival of 'Shoebox' type traction in the form of GBRf operated class 73, 73971 and had this event happened the other way round, in terms of traction direction, this shot would well and truly have been 'blown'! As it was, things being as they are, the passage south of 73971, was 'counter-balanced' by a colourful splash of a Northern Rail, class 144 twin-set, with 144005 at the front and heading north to a station stop at Swinton on the 2N28, Sheffield to Leeds service. Picking up a 52 minute delay at Newcastle, for some reason, there were sufficient pauses in the time-table, at Darlington, York and Doncaster to allow the 73 to pick up on the timing and it arrived here at 14:34, just about 10 minutes late. This is the GBRf operated, class 73, 73971, ex-E3591 and once named 'County of East Sussex' on the 0Z73, Craigentinny T.&R.S.M.D to Loughborough Brush, light-engine working; the 73 being in the dark green, 'Midnight Teal/Highland Stag livery'. Kilnhurst's St. Thomas Church stands out on the bank above the line with its silhouetted gravestones in the churchyard next to it and with its bright blue pit-head wheel in its garden as a commemoration to the miners of Kilnhurst Colliery - '1858 - 1989, They Shall Not be Forgotten', the large blue-painted pit-head gear wheels surmounting the memorial stone.

Some information regarding the 'approaching 'Show Box', which somehow in this light and surroundings, doesn't look at all bad, though others may have something to say about its interesting shape!-

Number: 73971
Class: 73/9
Depot: SE - St. Leonards T&RSMD
Pool: GBCS - GBRf Class73/9 for Caledonian Sleeper Scotland
Livery: EC - East Coast - Signalbox Grey with Purple stripe, Grey doors and East Coast branding
Builder: English Electric Vulcan Foundry
Built: 24/04/1966
Works Number: E3591/E361
73971 Renumbered: From 73207 on 31/01/2015
73207 Named: 14/12/1988, 'County of East Sussex'
Unamed: 31/07/1999
73207 Renumbered: From 73122 on 14/02/1988
73122 Named: 31/07/1985 
Unamed: 14/02/1988, 'County of East Sussex'
73122 Renumbered: From E6029 on 31/12/1973

GBRf operated 73971, ex-'County of East Sussex' is on the 0Z73, Craigentinny T.&R.S.M.D to Loughborough Brush Works and has here picked up 40 mins and is running almost to time. The Midland's Kilnhurst West station was on the right of the 73 where the access tracks can be seen now, the station access was from the road bridge, via a flight of steps, where the camera is located to take these pictures.
   

Taken on: April 19, 2017

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