Date: 21/11/2011

Trains are to start moving tonnes of nuclear fuel from Dounreay in Caithness to Sellafield in Cumbria from next summer. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the breeder material would be reprocessed for use in generating electricity in the future.

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Trains to transport nuclear fuel

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Trains are expected to start moving tonnes of nuclear fuel from Dounreay in Caithness to Sellafield in Cumbria from next summer.

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Motive power considerably longer than train. With the DRS Class 20 locos in Eastleigh for assessment the Class 66s are frequently being rostered on flask trains. With only a fraction of the 6600hp available being used 66428 and 66425 hustle the 6K73 Sellafield to Crewe, comprising a single flask wagon, south passing Broad Fall Farm at Scorton on a Monday evening. This train is a useful means of getting locomotives to Crewe too and the previous Monday had two Class 37s in tow in addition to the two 66s.
Location: Scorton [Lancashire] [1st]
Company: Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
20/07/2009 Mark Bartlett

DRS 37059 with an unidentified partner heading south near Braidwood on 14 March 2006 with nuclear flasks from Hunterston PS bound for Sellafield.
Location: Braidwood
Company: Caledonian Railway
14/03/2006 Bill Roberton