A rare Thursday running of 6F69 the Ribblehead Virtual Quarry - Tuebrook loaded stone.
GBRf 60021 gets away from Ribblehead and is seen approaching the bridge at Salt Lake Cottages, the mass of Whernside features as the backdrop.
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Running about 25 minutes late and with no help from the diesel, 47853, at the back, 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' steams past Salt Lake Cottages, Gauber near Ribblehead with the A4 Locomotive Society's members special 1Z60 0827 Crewe-Carlisle, its first mainline trip since overhaul. Following this trip it will be repainted BR blue.
With the sun just breaking through the haze GBRf 66790 grinds its train of GBRf loaded JNA's north approaching Salt Lake Cottages.
Good to meet up with German friends Frits and Horst for the afternoon and evening. Regular visitors to the UK for over 25 yrs they have, due to COVID, not been to UK for over two years and said the whole process was still exceptionally bureaucratic.
The (MWFO) Clitheroe Cement empties, strangely, was not given a clear run through Blea Moor today. The signalman prioritised letting the Ribblehead VQ - Hunslet out across the viaduct and into the loop in front of it.
Late arriving fellow photters who had recorded it at Garsdale were delighted to have a second bite at the cherry.
GBRf 66701 eases 4N03 downgrade at Salt Lake Cottages in a timely window of sun.