Limestone train from Tunstead to ICI Winnington, 1964

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Limestone train from Tunstead to ICI Winnington, 1964

Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 30 Jun 1964

View SE from the Hodge Lane bridge over the loop from the CLC at Northwich to the Hartford Exchange Sidings on the West Coast Main Line, from which the train will be worked to the ICI Works. In those days about 10 of these limestone trains ran every weekday and even about 6 on Sundays - and there are workings even today. The locomotive here is Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 48693 (built 1944 on the SR, withdrawn 4/67).

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