Does anyone know anything about this service.
Obviously originating at Kings Cross, but where to and what period?
The Kings Cross Freighter
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Percy Main
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Re: The Kings Cross Freighter
Something here:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_Haa ... er&f=false
about it and the Tees-Tyne Freighter.
Apparently they were door-to-door container services.
(Sorry I can't insert the link more neatly.)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_Haa ... er&f=false
about it and the Tees-Tyne Freighter.
Apparently they were door-to-door container services.
(Sorry I can't insert the link more neatly.)
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strang steel
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Re: The Kings Cross Freighter
You need to go to http://tinyurl.com/ Percy Main
Copy your long link, and then paste it into the box on that web page.
Press the "make tinyurl" button, and a new page will appear with a much shorter link underneath the long one.
Just copy and paste the shorter one, and hey presto - you're done.
I did that with your link and it came up with - http://tinyurl.com/cucu85e
Copy your long link, and then paste it into the box on that web page.
Press the "make tinyurl" button, and a new page will appear with a much shorter link underneath the long one.
Just copy and paste the shorter one, and hey presto - you're done.
I did that with your link and it came up with - http://tinyurl.com/cucu85e
John.
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My spotting log website is at https://spottinglogs.co.uk/spotting-rec ... s-70s-80s/
And my spotters' b&w photo site is at http://spottinglogs.blog
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Percy Main
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Re: The Kings Cross Freighter
Many thanks, strang steelstrang steel wrote:You need to go to http://tinyurl.com/ Percy Main
I have often seen but never understood tiny url
I did it first time! http://tinyurl.com/cucu85e
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John Palmer
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Re: The Kings Cross Freighter
The information I have for the King's Cross Freighter is that it was a Class C freight, departing Park Lane Depot, Gateshead at 1925 with a King's Cross "Assured Arrival" at 0520. The train was subject to a 60 wagon limit, marshalled Peterborough, King's Cross, Ferme Park. At the time it was described in my source (Ian Allan's "British Express Freight Trains" by B. Perren, published ?Summer 1962) timings and route were:
Park Lane dep. 1925, V2 hauled
Wearmouth attaching - ?time
Darlington arr. 2130 dep. 2205
York (Clifton) arr. 2303 dep. 2320, locomotive changed to York Pacific
Retford for examination arr. 0035 dep. 0053
New England detaching and engine change - ?time
Ferme Park arr. 0450
King's Cross arr. 0520
Perren gives no indication that this train conveyed only containerised traffic, and the OP's photograph appears to show a head of vans rather than Conflats.
At this time, Perren describes the other two principal overnight services from Tyneside serving the Midlands and East Anglia as being the 1845 Park Lane departure known as the Birmingham Braked and a 1945 departure from Forth (Newcastle) to Whitemoor.
Park Lane dep. 1925, V2 hauled
Wearmouth attaching - ?time
Darlington arr. 2130 dep. 2205
York (Clifton) arr. 2303 dep. 2320, locomotive changed to York Pacific
Retford for examination arr. 0035 dep. 0053
New England detaching and engine change - ?time
Ferme Park arr. 0450
King's Cross arr. 0520
Perren gives no indication that this train conveyed only containerised traffic, and the OP's photograph appears to show a head of vans rather than Conflats.
At this time, Perren describes the other two principal overnight services from Tyneside serving the Midlands and East Anglia as being the 1845 Park Lane departure known as the Birmingham Braked and a 1945 departure from Forth (Newcastle) to Whitemoor.