I was quite alarmed yesterday when I heard that the southbound Fellsman was to stop and fill up with water at Settle rather than Appleby. Hadn't they heard the Settle water tower had been decommissioned 55 years ago I wondered? Needn't have worried. LSL of Crewe had arranged for a road tanker to do the job.
Turns out the Appleby water tower system, dating from 1991, has been deemed too dangerous because somebody must climb onto the top of the tender to open the tank tops and insert the hose - a process that has happened for a couple of centuries but must now stop - at least at Appleby (of all places). The tender-top person must now have a safety harness. Presumably this will give heritage lines something to think about.
I got a chance to speak to the LSL crew. Settle appears for now to be ideal for trackside lorry access and facilities in general. They said that Settle would be used for up-line watering for the foreseeable future. The pictures are self explanatory I think.
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