More industrial workings from the past.... ICI, Northwich, Cheshire.

Class 47 arrives at Oakleigh sidings adjacent to the Brunner Mond plant at Northwich (Winnington) with a train of limestone from Tunstead in the Peak District. The date is c.1985.

The train draws down to the end of the reception sidings.

The loco runs round its train passing a train of coal which is waiting for the plant shunt engine to collect it and take it into the works.

The shunter checks the wagons of an empty train. These wagons were built by Charles Roberts Co. between 1936 and 1953 and ran into the 1990s. 

A general view of the outward end of the yard with the loco now on the end of a train of empty hoppers about to return to Tunstead. 

Here the coupling and vacuum brake equipment can be seen.