Taking on Water in Carlisle

 This wonderful picture has appeared on Facebook showing how not to take on water.  The water goes in the tender, at the back of the engine and the chain should never be attached to the locomotive.  Also, it was forbidden to waste water.  An explanation could be that they were washing off unpleasantness from the front of the engine. 

Aircraft Fuel on the S&C

Yesterday (Sunday) late afternoon the phone rang. It was the ever watchful Ken Shingleton in south Wales. "If you get out to the station in ten minutes you might see a first for the S&C". Ken Harper in Lancashire explains:

After discussions a couple of months ago about the re-instatement of the night shift at the north end of the S&C one of the reasons for it occurred on Friday night. 6M66 20.34 Doncaster - Carlisle Yard ran passing Settle Jn. at 23.23 and Petteril Bridge Jn. at 01.23. The train then continued forward as 6S68 04.45 Carlisle Yard - Prestwick (Airport) via the GSW after leaving half its load of aviation fuel in tankers in the Yard. The discharged tanks returned as 6M69 14.48 Prestwick - Carlisle Yard and the remainder of the loaded tanks ran as 6S69 18.48 Carlisle Yard - Prestwick yesterday (Sat.).

The discharged tanks seem to return south today (Sun.) as 6O68 12.00 Prestwick - Grain Oil Terminal (Kent) attaching the first half at Carlisle Yard and routed via the S&C, PBJ 17.11 and SJ at 18.50, then Blackburn and the WCML as the WCML north of Oxenholme is under engineers possession.

The sun shone on my efforts:

Great to see an entire freight train without a hint of graffiti and with drivers wearing ties!

Never a dull moment here in sleepy old Settle.

Now on Prime

 My last post mentioned the staggering number of recent views of this Blog.  A comment on the posting may have the answer - the show is now on Amazon Prime, possibly accessible worldwide.  Let's give it a try:

Settle water tower on Prime