Two DRS class 37s on the 'The Pennine Wayfarer' in the Hope Valley - 1306+313+315+324

            * Earles Sidings, West

Around 15 minutes later, with slow traffic manoeuvring at Hope, and a little anxious, arrival on the footbridge was made in time to see passage of an early running light-engine move from Peak Forest. As this occured before I had the phone set up to take the video seen yesterday, there was no record of it in there. Timed to pass through at 12:27, well after the Charter left at mid-day, the two loco light-engine move, 0F52 came though 33 minutes early at 11:55 with DBS 66190, in old brown EWS livery, leading and red-liveried 66085 seen here at the back. In fact 66190 had come up early that morning with a 12-HTAS wagon haul of... coal!, for the cement works on the 6M77, Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery to Earles Sidings working; somewhat of a rarity, now only being coal, but delivering to here, yet it's not unknown. It set off from the opencast mine in mid-Wales north of Llandovery in mid-Wales, on the day before at 15:34 and arrived in this area, 15 minutes late, at 07:37, with 12 old EWS HTA coal hoppers and a 1800 tonne timing load. The loco then detached and ran light engine to Peak Forest on 0F52, coming back as 0D12, this working, with 66085 and heading for the Toton T.M.D. At upper right, the shot shows the Charter set in Earles Sidings, next to the line withe the 12 coal hoppers on it, ready to be taken up to the Castleton Cement Works. D.R.S. class 37, 37218 is revving up and emitting clouds of the blue stuff as its now only a few minutes before the off along the H.V.L. towards Cowburn Tunnel, Chinley, Manchester and on to Bolton; 'Notlob', if you're a Monty Python 'Parrot Sketch' fan! The E.M.R. is DMUs classes 158 and 156, with 158777 seen here at the front and at the back, 156411 heading rapidly though on the 1R64, Norwich via reversal at Sheffield to Liverpool Lime Street. Two minutes after that, and with the section signal behind the camera now showing clear after passed of the E.M.R. service, 37218 powered up and came _very_ slowly forward to the road bridge with Les Nixon making the best of the view, right next to me. The driver has the clear signal from the small arm on the siding signal post and just visible over the top of the EWS coal hoppers and two full sidings of PCA cement tank wagons, the tops of 4 class 66 Freightliners can be seen with, apparently, 2 class 70s as well, right at the front; one of these can be seen in the pictures and videos which follow. At lower right, approaching the road bridge, 37218 with 37425, 'Sir Robert McAlpine/Concrete Bob' behind it on the continuing 'PAthfinder Railtours', 'The Pennine Wayfarer Charter', 1Z12,  Bristol Temple Meads via Worcester, Burton-on-Trent & H.V.L. to Bolton.

Taken on: March 12, 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

Les Nixon « less

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