A tour of Scun thorpe Steelworks by brake van

More later, including close-ups of a torpedo train.

 

Alan,

Excellent photos look forward to more

 

Very enjoyable Alan. Thanks for posting!

Charlie

 

Thanks for the tour. Wish I could have been there. Scun thorp is just south east of York, right?

 

This is the view through one brakevan to the other.

 

Some of my fellow DEMU members on the other van

 

Some cannibalized locomotives still in the previous British Steel livery.

 

We have to wait for one of the big Bo-Bo shunters to cross our path

 

One of the hard working 0-6-0 shunters brings another loaded steel train to the departure sidings

 

0-6-0 92 during shunting moves

 

Another 0-6-0 shunter, #94

 

One of the big forklifts used for moving steel around



Some heavy steel slabs

 

The four blast furnaces, known as the Four Queens, as they are named Queen Victoria, Queen Bess, Queen Mary, plus one on which we could not read the name.

 

Our loco and vans whilst having a lunch break in the AFRPS lounge coach.

 

A glimpse inside a large building stocked with many different shapes and sizes of steel

 

Torpedo wagons pics to come.....

 

Bo-Bo 71 approaches at the head of three torpedo hot metal wagons, another loco is on the rear.