H.N.R.C 20168, shunting EWS HTA coal wagons in the Hope Valley - 123624+124033

* Earles Sidings, East

* A 75Mby MP4 phone Video, taken in 2 parts, it is 4min 45secs long.
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** It has just come to my notice (10/12/23) that the Download option below and to the right of the media _does not_ allow you to download the full version, only the 3 minutes available here. So, I am going to try and 'fix' this for all videos lasting more than 3 minutes, this is the link to obtain the full version shown here-
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The HTA coal hoppers are being shunted back from Earles Sidings then drawn forward, the wagons usually split into a rake of 10-12, however there are 12 here and so the whole lot are being hauled up-grade to the cement works by the resident class 20, #2. This is a H.N.R.C leased class 20, 20168, 'Sir George Earle', it then takes the wagons on the 3km run up to the Castleton Cement Works and this one today is one of the very few coal workings which occur here. The inbound coal train occured earlier, 07:22, in the day from Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery near Llandovery in mid-Wales as 6M77, with DBS 66190 heading the Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery to Earles Sidings with an 1800 tonne timing load; 12 wagons must have been the whole load. After emptying the coal, it then brings them back down and, usually, takes another empty set back to also be filled after which it brings these back to the original rake and assembles the whole lot into the next working out of the sidings... Bit long-winded but this is how its been done for years, the incline and the single-track curvature being too much for a larger loco to deal with, no need to fix it, if it's not broken... After putting the coal wagons in the siding seen here in this video, 66190 left light engine at 08:02 on the 0F52, Earles Sidings to Peak Forest move, it was then seen again a bit earlier with 66085 at the back, at Earles Sidings West, whilst taking the shots of the Wayfarer Charter, heading back from Peak Forest on the 0D12, Peak Forest to Toton T.M.D. working... 'OpenRail' data indicates this is a permanent working until May 2022, though it may well continue after that, no indication of the frequency, though its in again for next week...

Whilst the shunting was in progress, Northern Rail class 195, 195120, rattles passed, this the 5S81 E.C.S. move from Edale Station to here, to reverse just along the track and make its way back to Edale Station. Apparently Northern were short of drivers on this day and were running bus replacement services between Chinley and Sheffield whilst these units provided a local service between Edale and Manchester; there were also cancelled Northern services out of Sheffield as well, for the same reason. And, just before the passenger train went by, but not in the video, a pair of DBS class 66s, 66190 and 66085 on the 0D12 working from Peak Forest to the Toton T.M.D. 66190 was the loco which brought the coal train into the sidings earlier in the day as indicated above, having detached it then went over to Peak Forest on the 0F52 move, connecting with 66085 and then returning this way to Toton.

So, yet another bit of unique rail traction working, along with the DRS 37s and the DBS 66 coal train, it made for quite an interesting few hours!

Taken on: March 13, 2022

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Hope Valley

Bamford Station

D.R.S.

Direct Rail Services

Pathfinder Railtours

The Pennine Wayfarer Railtour

Class 37

37218

ex-

D6918

37425

ex-D6992

Sir Robert McAlpine/Concrete Bob

1Z12

Bristol Temple Meads via Worcester, Burton-on-Trent & H.V.L. to Bolton

1Z13

Bolton via H.V.L. to Bristol Temple Meads

D.B.S.

D.B. Schenker Cargo

Class 66

66190

6M77

Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery to Earles Sidings

EWS HTA Coal Hoppers

66190(l)

0F52

Earles Sidings to Peak Forest

66190(2)

66085

0D12

Peak Forest Up Sidings to Toton T.M.D.

E.M.R.

East Midland Railway

Class 158

158864

158774

1L09

Liverpool Lime Street via Sheffield to Norwich

158777

Class 156

156411

1R64

Norwich to Liverpool Lime Street

T.P.E.

Transpennine Express

Class 185

185141

185125

1B75

Cleethorpes to Manchester Piccadilly

Northern Rail

Class 195

195120

E.C.S.

Empty Coaching Stock

5S81

Edale via reversal at Earles Sidings to Edale

Derwent Valley

Edale

London Midland Scottish Railways

Semaphore Signal

Earles Siding Signal Box

Ground Disk Signal

Class 20

20168

Sir George Earle

C+TE

VTG JPA Cement Tank Wagons

Hope Earles Sidings to Castleton Cement Works

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