Moorswater Cement Requiem, Pt2 - 70810 on Moorswater Industrial Estate on this now ceased working
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2022
- 6C36 Aberthaw Tarmac to Moorswater Tarmac was a weekly Colas run service conveying liquid cement in PCA tankers from South Wales to Cornwall. Little did I realise at the time I was filming (whilst on an annual holidays in Cornwall) that this service would cease in November 2020.
This sequential record of the service features 70813 (on 17 July 2019) & 70810 (on 22 July 2020).
Part 1 (of 2): Lostwithiel, Liskeard and Coombe Junction
Part 2 (of 2): Moorswater Industrial Estate
A short article on the service by John Vaughan can be found here:
www.pressreader.com/uk/railwa...
Love the Jag just abandoned in the undergrowth...
Congratulations, Sir, on your truly excellent coverage of a fascinating service, now sadly gone for the time being at least. Furthermore, you are the natural successor to the late, great Brian Matthew, as presenter of “Sounds of the 60s”!
never thought i would ever see a 70 run over a crossing like that or even on rails in that condition for that matter.
Fantastic footage. I have always liked industrial railroad applications and this one certainly is unique. The plant is hidden among the trees and bushes and that one grade crossing looks like a scene from my grandmother's Garden. Over here in the States we have a cement plant in LaSalle Peru. Oglesby Illinois and the Distribution Center in order to maintain rail service had to buy the big steel Viaduct over the river valley much like the one in your production. It is historical trackage in that it is one of the few remnants of the Gruber line which was chartered to run the length of Illinois shortly after Incorporation. Thanks again
Bit of the USA involved here as the locomotive is a Class 70 built by General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania from 2008. At the time they had the highest tractive effort of any Co-Co Diesel locomotive in use in the United Kingdom
Great video. Definitely one for the scale modellers there!
Great video content. Well filmed.
Smart loco and excellent video thankyou 👍👍
What a fantastic video and great editing. The Blue Mini was late on the brakes, perhaps they thought they could make it! - a bit too quick to go as well!
Agree - no patience these days!
Great video 👍👍
Great Video Have Subscribed 👍👍
@Trainspotter Dad,
I was thinking that it might be a test run with 2 NR chaps in attendance; feasibility and or HSE Evaluation on site.
Have Tarmac since
Closed the site as no longer viable as too hard for HGV’s/ tons moved; to get in and out due to the road network?
Interested to know?
Many thanks
I nice little shunt back'n'forth on a pleasant sunny day then off to the local on the corner for a cold pint 😀 👍 😎
Amazing video! Great rail activity and nice places! Good work! Thumbs Up & Subscribe
All the best from Dublin & Happy New Year
Andrew
That line is the end of the gravity railway from Minions/Caradon Hill that weaved backwards and forwards down to join the line down to Coombe junction then on down to Looe. The wagons of the train were run down the tracks with granite sleepers on the moors in single wagons with a brake man sat atop but in a group at the end of the days mining at a speed of no more than 12mph. Apparently there were frequent derailment with all the switchbacks and moving granite sleepers. They used granite as it was in plentiful supply on the moors.
I can see the line from where I'm writing!
Awesome video, did the cement site have more then one line in the site?
I see this train on the Dawlish sea wall when I am on holiday
I doubt it is liquified cement it would go off ! 🤣 PCA's normally carry powdered product which is discharged using compressed air.
You right there, It would be known as "Grout" and cures very quickly.
And it would be bizarre to transport liquid cement anyway -- cement is made dry so, even if it wasn't going to harden in the tank, it wouldn't make sense to add water to it and transport that water across the country.
The "new Bones" have such fugly faces, but the rest looks fit. Nice puzzle moves there.
Why have two guys from Network Rail to watch every train that comes this way?
Why are they there? It’s just another reason why these operations don’t survive.
Jobsworth ...
Jobs for the boys brigade.
They probably turned up in a pickup truck each & call this work.
There a joke.
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Great video but those class 70's are the worst looking locos in the country, bring back the class 37's.
I'm not a fan of the Colas livery either.