Wakefield to Knowsley via the Calder Valley

Follow the first part of this epic journey with DB Cargo. Driver Lee Yarker takes us over the Calder Valley and through Manchester via the notorious “Miles Platting Bank”. After that we go over the Atherton Line to Wigan before we enter the “Kirby Branch”. We stop and collect the token at Rainford which allows into the single line. You can then watch Lee set this leviathan back into the Freight Terminal and then see the actual “run around” and coupling procedure when the train is prepared for the return journey. That return journey will be featured in another video. Three hours of high definition footage and a soundtrack to match with in cab and trackside views. If you want to hear a Class 66 object most strongly to its partnership with 22 FCA wagons weighing close to a thousand tonnes, be sure to watch.

Maps by kind permission of New Adlestrop Railway Atlas.

Addendum;

Mossley should of course read Moston.

Kirby should read Kirkby (it’s a silent k)

Once clear of the main line to Kirkby, the ground staff operative puts the token into another token machine which gives the line back to the signaller at Rainford which allows normal passenger operation to and from Kirkby.