Did you know rail freight plays a big part in less busy roads?
π Each freight train can take about 76 lorries off Britain's roads: ππ£
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#FreightFriday
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Did you know rail freight plays a big part in less busy roads?
π Each freight train can take about 76 lorries off Britain's roads: ππ£
β‘οΈ networkrail.co.uk/industry-and-commercial/...
#FreightFriday
#FreightFriday 37671 shunting CDAs at Par 2.10.96
#FreightFriday 37670 arrives at Lostwithiel with CDAs 1.10.96
#FreightFriday #Shedwatch with @GBRailfreight 66313 passing through Long Buckby on 4M22 Felixstowe South Gbrf to Trafford Pk Euro Tml Gbrf.
#FreightFriday A pair of close up GB Railfreight sheds on a liner last weekend. Maybe a positioning move, on Saturday #GBRF 4M23 Felixstowe North to Hams Hall was headed by 66773 with 66723 behind & had been stopped to wait the road at Uffington near Stamford. #ShedWatch 7/2/26
#FreightFriday It's all change within the Freightliner business as the Heavyhaul part seperates from intermodal. Earlier this week 66623 'Lest We Forget' passes Kettering with 6M91 Theale LaFarge to Earles Sidings, Hope, contrasting against the grey day. #MML #Freightliner 9/2/26
#Type5Friday #FreightFriday 56095 returning empty Plasmor wagons to Heck 9.4.96. A working that continues from Bow & Biggleswade today*.
*56 not included.
#FreightFriday 58050 leads British Industrial Sand PAAs north at Helpston on the ECML. 9.4.96
A Freightliner train hauling containers on a track in a rural setting.
π We've worked with rail and energy partners Freightliner and GeoPura to transport #hydrogen for the first time on Britain's railway:
π www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/network-rails-test-...
#FreightFriday
#FreightFriday 37519 departs on 6E78 from Mountsorrel Sidings Aug/Sept 1996.
#FreightFriday A π & another view of DC Rail 60028 working 6M89 last Saturday. Thanks to the new timings I managed to capture it here, at Burnt House Road crossing, Turves, & then again 75 mins later at Uffington after its booked wait at Peterborough #DCR #Fenland 3/1/26
#FreightFriday 56048 at North Staffs Junction,north with loaded BDAs 9.7.96
As always thank you for the interactions this year. Pausing the photo journey mid 1996 for a week or so.
Away to π©πͺ for a week so maybe a π° or two may appear.
Hereβs to lots more rail fun in β26! π»
#FreightFriday 58036 heads away from Syston towards Leicester, summer 1996. A Ketton Cement working.
#FreightFriday #Type5Friday 58050 Toton Traction Depot through Leicester with Bardon Aggregate wagons. June 1996.
#FreightFriday with @RailFreight pair of #class90 90005 & 90039 through Long Buckby with 4L67 Trafford Park F.L.T. to Felixstowe North F.L.T.
#FreightFriday 7280 runs through Bordeaux St Jean 20.6.96
#FenlandFriday from a couple of weeks ago. DB Cargo 66102 heads through Whittlesea working a well loaded 4M82 Felixstowe North to East Midlands Gateway Terminal intermodal service. #ShedWatch #DBCargo #FreightFriday 15/11/25
A variety of wagons on 6K05, which makes for some interest. It's also a fairly lengthy train so even if I positioned myself elsewhere you'd have struggled to see the rear!
#DirectRailServices 66427 is at the helm of it this time, seen arriving in Carlisle. #freightfriday #shedwatch
#FortySevenFriday #FreightFriday 47221 seen at Barrow upon Soar 27.3.96
#FreightFriday Was Megane your shape?
@IrishRail 168 shunts empty wagons at Ballina 5.3.96
#FreightFriday a variety of workings from Stafford a couple of weeks ago featuring: 66431 4M27 Coatbridge (Drs) to Daventry Int Rft Recep Fl,
66735 4L05 Ditton (O'Connor) Gbrf to Felixstowe South ,
66206 4V21 Trafford Park Euro Term to Didcot,
90014-047 4S49 DIRFT to Grangemouth
#FreightFriday Some bright early morning colour with a cloudless blue sky at Banbury a few weeks ago. #Freightliner 66513 heads up 4O15 Lawley Street to Southampton Marine Container Terminal intermodal working. #ShedWatch 11/9/25
#FreightFriday #Freightliner 66517 heads through a sunny Leamington Spa last week working 4O90 Doncaster Europort to Southampton Marine Container Terminal. #ShedWatch 11/9/25
#FreightFriday Another view of #GBRailfreight 66713 'Forest City' passing through Oakham with 4M23 Felixstowe North #GBRF to Hams Hall intermodal a few weeks ago. This was a slightly later shot than previously posted giving a wider view of the crossing #ShedWatch #Rutland 30/8/25
#FreightFriday @IrishRail 157 heads south through Portarlington with an engineerβs service. 5.3.96
#FreightFriday @IrishRail 232 runs through Portarlington with ammonia wagons 5.3.96
Dodging the rain, #Class69 69012 "Falcon 2" zips along the Down Barrow Hill en route to Doncaster Decoy Yard with a rake of wagons, with the Crooked Spire watching over everything against the cloudy sky.
#FreightFriday #Chesterfield
#FreightFriday #FloweryFriday #ShedWatch #HashtagHour
66730 at Nuneaton on 4M07 Felixstowe North - Birch Coppice 29.8.25
#FreightFriday Another consignment of inbound boxes heads north through Northamptonshire this afternoon. #GB Railfreight 66740 'Sarah' working 4M22 Felixstowe South #GBRF to Trafford Park Euro Terminal passes the big supermarket warehouses of #DIRFT.. #ShedWatch 22/8/25
#FreightFriday ARC Aggregates heads towards Mitre Bridge Jnc at Willesden 2.12.95
59101 is up front.