66598 passes over the A174 in Carlin How, officially in North Yorkshire but Redcar & Cleveland gives a better feel for the location.
The train conveys Pot Ash from Boulby mine which is tripped to Tees Yard.
Not a shot I’ve seen before and that’s probably because it’s a rubbish location but it was too late to find an alternative.
66598 leads 6F24 (I think ?) the 12.28 Boulby Mine – Tees Yard loaded Potash. Seen crossing the A174 at Carlin How at 12.48 on Tuesday 1st December 2015.
Another away trip to watch the mighty EFC saw the eldest and myself arriving for the first time in my life at Carlin How.
I’ve always been intrigued by the occasional photo’s I’d seen of Crag Hall box, a proper railway outpost on a freight only line is my sort of thing.
First up was a poor shot of a Boulby Potash train crossing the A174 at Carlin How. The plan was then to have a look in Crag Hall box but I’d been warned the day previous that a signaller was being passed out that day so with the LOM’s van clearly in attendance we exited stage left and investigated Long Beck box instead, one I didn’t know existed.
A minuscule box packed with equipment it controls the line to and including Saltburn as well as the Junction for the Boulby branch
Thereafter we returned to Crag Hall, the new recruit duly passed out.
By now the light was fading so some exterior shots were hastily gathered.
A most unattractive box and not in good order but still a little gem. All mechanical with the exception of one set of motor points. It acts as a passing place on the Boulby branch and also controls the junction with the siding into Tata’s Skinningrove steel works.
It seems there’s normally three or four trips per day up to Boulby and return, the only other traffic on the branch is one train a day of steel blooms from Scunthorpe to the steel works here, the billets are turned into long sections such as "I" section beams but none of the product leaves the site by rail. The empties are tripped out in the morning and the loaded train arrives at lunch time. When we returned 60054 was stood waiting time before returning light engine to Tees Yard.
After visiting Crag Hall we moved to Redcar for a quick look at the box there. Now in pitch dark and with strong winds and rain, no external shots were attempted and just a couple of internal shots were recorded.
Gerard Deulofeu did the business for Everton in a 2-0 win.
If Carlsberg did away days 🙂
