Staffordshire '98 #7: International Velvet

An unidentified intermodal that had come via the channel tunnel, probably for Trafford Park, passes through the lush rolling countryside near Madeley.

The identities of the locomotives were lost to history: this was 15 years before Realtime Trains was launched, and I had no access to 'gen' lists at the time.... nor indeed a mobile phone!

However, thanks to Andy Masons Gallery , a bit of a google showed that the same train was seen at Tring earlier in the day, without the leading 47 but with 47362 and 92009 'Elgar' on point.

47362 and 92009 were dead in consist, probably being dragged from Wembley back to Crewe Electric depot, then the maintenance base for Railfreight Distribution's fleet. At the time, class 92s were not permitted to operate on the Railtrack 25KV network so light engine moves or drags such as this were commonplace.

Taken on: May 19, 1998

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