60076 & 60062 at Pemberton - 25th March 2023

GBRF 60076 "Dunbar" in Ex Colas livery top and tailing with DB's 60062 'Sonia' are seen heading through Pemberton station one stop west on the Wigan/Kirkby branch on the afternoon of Saturday 25th March 2023.

The Tugs were working a leg of Pathfinder railtour (The Marsh Magician) which originated in Bristol Temple Meads. This section was from Crewe to Chester north to Warrington/Earlstown/Bamfurlong/Wigan/Ranford and finally Knowsley.


More on 60062 livery
sporting steel on steel livery. The Class 60 locomotive - called Steel on Steel and with a striking flame design - is being utilised for the movement of metal products across key routes in the UK, feeding major manufacturing supply chains. One full train load of steel coil can produce over 1000 new cars or 60,000 white goods. Steel on Steel will be used to transport steel coil to the company’s centre of excellence for steel logistics, Wolverhampton Steel Logistics Centre, which is 11,800m2 with the capacity to store some 48,000 tonnes of steel

The full route of today's tour
Bristol Temple Meads (pu) - Bristol Parkway (pu) - Cheltenham (pu) - Bromsgrove (pu) - Birmingham New Street (pu) - Tame Bridge Parkway (pu) Stafford (pu) - Crewe (pu)
DBC Class 60 and GBRf Class 60 Crewe (pu) - Chester Down Through – Down Chester Goods Loop – Hooton Long Sidings Run-round (Rev) – Ellesmere Port UDGL – Helsby – Warrington Bank Quay Down Slow – Earlestown – Lowton Jn – Bamfurlong Jn – Down Goods – Wigan South Jn – Wigan Wallgate – Rainford – Dale Lane Headshunt (Rev) – Knowsley Freight Terminal (Rev)– Dale Lane Headshunt (Rev) – Rainford – Wigan Wallgate – Springs Branch Jn – St Helens Central – Huyton – Olive Mount Jn – Edge Lane Jn – Regent Road L.C. – Liverpool Docks (Rev) – Bootle Branch Jn – Waterloo Sidings (Rev)
DBC Class 60 Waterloo Sidings – Bootle Branch Jn – Huyton – Earlestown – Winwick Jn – Dallam RMT – Warrington Bank Quay Up Goods – Crewe,
DBC Class 60 Crewe (sd) - Stafford (sd) - Tame Bridge Parkway (sd) - Birmingham New Street (sd) - Bromsgrove (sd) - Cheltenham (sd) - Bristol Parkway (sd) - Bristol Temple Meads

Today's consist 60076 leading M5998, M6054, E6158, M6067, M6051, M1200, W1651, M3390, M3345, W3386, M3364, M3314 and M17105 & 60062

2 familiar friendly voices can be heard chatting away as the tour disappeared. Amusing we were all caught out by 66065 working the westbound binliner before this turned up. Neither RTT or Railcam listed bere departing Knowsley/Rainford.


I had filmed steam locomotive 46100 Royal Scot steaming through Wigan a few hours earlier a link to that can be found here,
https://youtu.be/mIUFyUFzfG0

The official working today 1Z31 1005 Crewe to Knowsley Freight Terminal

9 late
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Filmed at Pemberton
Filmed Saturday 25th March 2023


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