Where Worlds Collide » Brass Jaw http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:33:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 Further Up North http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/photos/further-up-north/ http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/photos/further-up-north/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:09:51 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=5773 Continue reading →]]> Northern Rail's 156448 enters Haltwhistle with a Newcastle to Carlisle train, on the northermost of the trans-Pennine lines.

A few more photos from my trip up north in June 2012. This one shows a Northern Rail class 156 at Haltwhistle on the northernmost trans-Pennine line, the one running from Newcastle to Carlisle. The station retains the old North Eastern Railway footbridge and tall signalbox.

Jazz four-piece Brass Jaw play an impromptu set on the concourse of Carlisle station to promote the Glasgow Jazz festival.

So there I was, drinking a coffee at Carlisle station, when suddenly this happened. The jazz combo were Brass Jaw, promoting their forthcoming appearance at The Glasgow Jazz Festival with a set at each major station between Glasgow and London

Freightliner Heavy Haul's 66553 pauses at Carlisle on a northbound train of coal empties returning to Scotland.

This was more the sort of photo I was expecting to take at Carlisle. Freightliner Heavy Haul’s 66553 on a northbound train of coal empties, which will probably have come off either the Newcastle-Carlisle or Settle-Carlisle lines, having delivered it’s coal to one of Yorkshire power stations.

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