Staffordshire’98 #8: Come back to what you know

            An unidentified class 47/8 in Virgin livery passes Bradwell Sidings signal box with 1o16, the 1230 Glasgow Central to Poole service.

Living near Bournemouth, many of my local photographs from 1998 featured these Virgin Cross Country services: the coaching stock, as illustrated here was a mix of InterCity executive and the then new Virgin liveried mark 2s. On paper, the locomotives were as illustrated here, but substitutions of hired in Fragonset or freight locomotives were not uncommon. 

Bradwell Sidings was built by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1889, and was closed in 2002. The sidings opposite the signal box were operated by Esso, and at the time of my photograph were served by a weekly train of LPG from Fawley in Hampshire. Another freight terminal was out of sight just beyond the ‘box: this was the Carless Solvents site that received traffic from the refinery at Harwich.

At the time of writing (January 2023), the former Esso sidings are back in use for aggregate recycling. The location is now known as Longport Pinnox Branch sidings.

Taken on: May 19, 1998

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