Aggregates freights flows Cumbrian WCML

[cjs11]

Dear Forum
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I am trying to get a handle on whether any aggregates freight working still traverse the WCML in Cumbria. In particular are those HHAs and the HIAs still to be found on the northern WCML?

I have plenty of memories of EWS and Freightliner HHAs passing through Carlisle, mostly I think going to the S&C or the Newcastle line, not so much the WCML - but there were some - Fiddlers Ferry - Hunterston rings a bell?

There were, of course, the Redcar - Shap/Hardendale lime workings that came from the Newcastle line down the top part of the WCML in Cumbria, passing through Penrith.

So if anyone can advise whether such typical long aggregates trains still traverse the Cumbrian WCML, or whether they've become a thing of the past, I'd be most grateful.

I've looked at the ever useful Paul Bartlett wagons website. I don't think JHAs ever made it into Cumbrian parts, but HHAs certainly did, and I'm wondering if HIAs did/do?

CJS

 

[Freightmaster]

So if anyone can advise whether such typical long aggregates trains still traverse the Cumbrian WCML, or whether they've become a thing of the past, I'd be most grateful.

There are no Anglo Scottish coal services these days I'm afraid, and no aggregate trains north of Preston using hoppers either.

(there are several flows formed of box wagons, such as Tunstead to Hardendale and Shap to Ashton, plus ballast trains)





MARK