
Not wasting anytime at all today and neither is this working being put in the Kilnhurst Loop, over on the left in front of the loco, as it does on very many occasions, especially if south-bound freights are in the area and they have to pass each other. Today that isn't the case and GBRf 66745, 'Modern Railways - The first 50 Years at Doncaster', rattles off north, it too now not far from completing the 5 hour journey from Leicestershire to Doncaster on the 6E42 working. All looks clean a tidy here, the ballast is new(ish) all the point-work is being retained and there is another signal with feather, S0716, for moves off the main line and into the loop, just behind the camera. To the right of the yellow MBA wagon, partially in shadow, the old site of the 'Thomas Hill Vanguard Locomotive Works', constructed in May 1978, by and for the Thomas Hill Vanguard Locomotive Works which continued in business until taken over in 1990 by the owners of Doncaster Wagon Works, R.F.S. Industries, now of course, Wabtec. The locomotive works finally closed here in 1993 when all work was transferred to Doncaster; the building survives and looks pretty much the same as it ever did, it is currently being used for light industrial purposes and looks to have been recently extended; there are still signs of rails going into the building at the north end, viewed on Google Earth. And, speaking of 'wasting no time' above, on the main road alongside the canal on the other side, another form of waste is being dealt with, this time its HGV belonging to 'Moulding Solution Plastic Recycling Ltd.', another local business in the Swinton area and it will presumably be dealing more and more with one of the now recognised blight's of the modern era, since the last war, plastic waste. The Chinese now of course are no longer willing to import the stuff, from here and elsewhere, and well, not actually sure what they used to do with it all, one assumes they recycled it into more products which were then sold back to us; seems like a 'heads they win, tails we lose', scenario!