Driver route-learning on the SAK was due to start on 31st March 2008, but after being
cancelled two days in a row it started on 2nd April instead and 9 return
trips ran. See my pictures from that day of
The First Unit!
Monster Coal Train!
EWS ran their first test coal train over the SAK on the 5th April 2008, and it turned
out to be very long and heavy - monster-sized in fact! See my pictures of it east of Alloa in
Monster Coal Train!
Light Engine On The Loose!
I got some advance warning that EWS were to start driver familiarisation on the SAK using
light locomotives, and I was able to go to Alloa in my lunch hour to see the first one go
through. See it in
Light Engine On The Loose!
Re-Opening Day!
15th May 2008 is a day I will never forget, as it was the day of the official (re-)opening
of the SAK. And I was lucky enough to have been officially invited to
Re-Opening Day!
Freightliner HH Debut
After many months with few coal trains, none of which I got to see, I was lucky enough in the first
rally busy week for coal-traffic to be able to catch the return working of the first Freightliner
Heavy-Haul Coal train over the SAK at Alloa. see the pictures in
Freightliner HH Debut
Coal, Coal, Coal!
My usual poor luck meant that the full schedule
of EWS coal trains over the SAK started running just as the days got short and winter
approached, and I rarely got the time to go film coal trains in daylight for several
months. However I took a sunny day in March 2009 off work, and with a new camcorder that
I had had for less than a fortnight, I set out to catch up. So here are the captured
stills from a day I saw
(Mostly) Coal Trains!
Turbostar, Freightliner, & Measuring Train
On the evening of 12th May 2009 I set out to
film a Network Rail measuring train that was due through Alloa, but I went out a bit early
and thus got to film other things too! So here are the captured stills of
Turbostar, Freightliner, & Measuring Train
Seen In The Passing!
It took me until August 2009 to
catch up with two trains passing each other on the SAK in daylight, but as
I had my camcorder handy and now have a page with pictures of this I have
chosen to call
Seen In The Passing! Click
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