Weather CHAOS & Loco Variety at Carlisle. Class 56! Class 37s! Floods cause cancellations 10 Jan 23

Weather CHAOS & Loco Variety at Carlisle.
Class 56!
Class 37s!
Floods cause cancellations
10 January 2023

It was a wet dark day with a fair bit of wind too in Carlisle.
The day was really in two halves -
In the morning there was a good amount of loco action with ROG 37s passing through and a Class 56 working aggregates from Ravenstruther, near Carstairs, to Longport. Class 70s were also around on three different services.
Freightliner blessed us with a pair of 90s in tangerine livery as well as a 66 on the regualr Tyne Yard departmental run.
GBRf is still using 66 Cambridge PSB on the Hams HAll containers
DB Cargo showed its presence on their regular Departmental train to Basford Hall and on the fairly frequent containers from Seaforth Dock.
The ever present DRS entertained us with 66s and 88s on the tesco trains and light engine. A convoy of four 68s went to Sellafield but unfortunately went down Platform 1 as I was walking up Platform 3 to get a closer look at the 90s!

In the afternoon the levels of rain had brought speed restrictions over Beattock, between Carstairs and Lockerbie. Network Rail are right to be cautious after the recent embankment slip. Then not one but both lines south - the WCML and then the Settle & Carlisle were blocked by flooding. The WCML recovered within an hour but by then Avanti had split their timetable, as usual to keep services south of there near to schedule with reduced services north. Not sure what Trans Pennine were up to, other than terminating services at Carlisle.

Overall a very Interesting day!

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