Tractors on the Settle and Carlisle
8 April 2004
We visited my parents for Easter, and Rowan and I took a day out to ride the
Arrive class 37 service while it lasted. The train starts from Healey Mills
depot, calls at York only to pick up the conductor, then continues empty to
Knaresborough. It then forms a commuter service to Leeds and waits in a bay
platform for an hour or so before becoming the Leeds to Carlisle. To have
caught it from Knaresborough would have involved getting out of bed stupidly
early and then killing time at Leeds so we settled for a unit to get us to
Leeds.
37 405 is on the rear for today's northbound run
37 411 has inherited its The Scottish Railway Preservation
Society nameplate from the withdrawn 37 413
We settled into our comfortable Mark II seats in the front coach, with a scattering
of railfans to keep us company and off we went, gradually picking up passengers.
Having enjoyed the sound and the scenery, we alighted at Carlisle as DRS 66
406 retreated.
47 805 is with two ancient vehicles, possibly barriers for
a Pendolino drag
66 185 and 60 010 are poised for action
37 411 poses in front of the mural depicting the steam era