Shelton Bar5 Drive - Pig Iron
The blast furnaces at Shelton Bar produced not only hot metal for the open hearth furnaces in the adjoining steelmaking plant but also pig iron which was sent to the John Summers steelworks at Hawarden Bridge.
The 35 minute session commences in the North Yard where one of the yard shunters couples to some flat wagons and takes them to the No1 blast furnace for loading at the pig iron wharf. The short headshunt requires the consist of 9 wagons to be split into rafts of three prior to loading.
The full wagons are returned to North Yard and then made up into a train for hand over to the LMS Grange Branch locomotive to transfer to Grange Yard on the first part of its journey to North Wales.
Author: Andrew Howard (AndrewH)
- Shelton Bar5 Drive - Pig Iron
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