Wednesbury (11/07/1989)
| Tuesday 11th July 1989 | |||
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| Train | Wednesbury | Loco | Comments |
| 6T42 Bescot - Brierley Hill | 06.04 | 47249 | |
| 6M40 Cardiff - Wednesbury | 06.20-06.37 | 37714 | |
| 8T19 Bescot - Wednesbury | 06.35-06.49 | 08616 | |
| 6M51 Scunthorpe - Brierley Hill | 07.58 | 37258 | The Scunthorpe whizzes straight through - no traffic stop at Wednesbury on this occasion. |
| 6M72 St Blazey - Cliffe Vale | 08.08 | 47188 | |
| 6V43 Wednesbury - Margam | 08.35 | 37714 | |
| 8T19 Wednesbury - Bescot | 09.06 | 08616 | |
| 6E29 Brierley Hill - Scunthorpe | 09.20-09.26 | 37258 | Running about 90 minutes ahead of its regular time, no doubt due to not having stopped at Wednesbury on the way south. |
| 0F80 Bescot? - Cardiff? | 10.06 | 37003+37198 | An interesting light-engine movement. I don't have a 1989 reference to hand, but in 1990 these two were Railfreight Distribution locos allocated to Tinsley. |
| 6E29 Brierley Hill - Scunthorpe | 10.25 | 37258 | The Scunthorpe departs north. |
| 4T52 Lawley St - Round Oak | 10.48 | Running a bit late on its normal timings. The Class 4 indication shows that the load consisted entirely of steel on Freightliner
wagons. The flat-rack containers carried the branding of the Seawheel intermodal operator. Seawheel was acquired by
the Icelandic logistics group Samskip in 2005, and in autumn 2006 they decided to phase out the Seawheel brand.
For some reason the loco isn't recorded, but it was 47451 on Monday, Thursday and Friday (no trains on Wednesday due to the strike). I think it's likely that it was 47451 on this occasion too. |
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| 0T42 Brierley Hill - Bescot | 11.08 | 47249 | |
| 9T96 ? - Wednesbury | 12.22-12.26 | 20139+20160 | A spoil train I'd assume. Interesting that it's running as a Class 9, which in this era meant it wasn't continuously braked throughout. |
| 8T19 Bescot - Wednesbury | 12.36-12.47 | 08616 | T19 isn't going to be allowed into the sidings until T96 has departed (below). |
| 0T96 Wednesbury - Bescot? | 12.41 | 20160+20139 | The 20s didn't hang around long after dropping their train. |
| 6T52 Round Oak - Wednesbury | 12.53-13.02 | T52 brings some wagons north... | |
| 0T52 Wednesbury - Bescot | 13.11 | ...and the loco disappears fairly promptly. | |
| 6T42 Bescot - Brierley Hill | 13.42 | 47249 | |
| 0T96 Bescot? - Wednesbury | 15.03 | 20139+20160 | The T96 locos re-appear, this time to collect a train. |
| 6T52 Bescot - Round Oak | 15.06 | ||
| 8T96 Wednesbury - Washwood Heath | 15.49 | 20160+20139 | The destination for this train was helpfully recorded by the signalman. By 1989 the only regular movements over the direct line between Pleck Jct and Bescot Curve Jct were 6M51/6E29 and the T52 trips. Beyond that there would have been just the occasional extra like this one. |
| 6M12 Cardiff - Wednesbury | 16.20-16.43 | ||
| 8T19 Wednesbury - Bescot | 16.48 | 08616 | |
| 6T52 Round Oak - Wednesbury | 17.00-17.03 | Into Wednesbury to detach traffic... | |
| 4T52 Wednesbury - Lawley St | 17.17 | ...and away to Lawley St with just the Freightliner empties in tow. | |
| 6V70 Cliffe Vale - St Blazey | 17.33 | ||
| 6T42 Brierley Hill - Bescot | 17.45 | ||
| 6V69 Wednesbury - Cardiff | 18.25 | ||
| 6M29 Taunton - Bescot | 19.21 | ||
| 6V80 Bescot - East Usk | 20.15 | ||
| 6M17 Gloucester - Bescot | 20.43 | 47306 | |
| Train out of section for 6M17 was sent to Eagle Crossing at 20:44, and box closing was returned at 20:45. Wednesbury
closed at 20:55. Note that by chance these are exactly the same times as the previous evening, although on this occasion 6M17
turned up in time to run via Wednesbury.
The box was open for 15½ hours and there were 31 movements - an average of exactly two per hour. Of these just 5 were light engines, with the other 26 being trains. This is a slightly more typical day than Monday, all the booked trains turned up in some approximation of their normal paths, and there were two engineers trains into and out of the sidings at Wednesbury. The only odd working was the 0F80 light engines. The longest gaps between trains were the 74 minutes between 11:08 and 12:22, and the 81 minutes between 13.42 and 15.03. |
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