Nuclear traffic on the other sea wall

            68018 'Vigilant' and 68017 'Hornet' head three nuclear flasks from the decommissioned Hunterston B power station along the sea wall at Saltcoats in Ayrshire.

The final reactor at Hunterston B was shutdown in January 2022.   In April 2022 one or two trains per week of nuclear waste were running from the plant to the reprocessing faciility at Sellafield.

In the not too distant past, the resort town of Saltcoats saw a considerable amount of passing freight traffic.  Situated on the line from the import terminal at Hunterston, in the twenty years from the mid 1990s the line was busy with coal traffic for English power stations as well as Longannet in Fife.    In 2022, this working is the last remaining freight flow on this attractive line.

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Taken in: UK / Scotland / Saltcoats (show map)

Taken on: April 19, 2022

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