Summer Steeler No 24 - Part 1 - 28th August 2022

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Members wait to join out tour, Frodingham platform at 09.20, looking towards the buffer stops.<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]	Di8s 8.702 (CargoNet grey) and, far end, 8.704 (NSB red/yellow) take a train of internal bogie wagons with sections rolled at the Rail & Section Mill into Redbourn stocking area 'C'. That overhead conveyor is part of a lengthy system originating at the Coal Handling Plant on the other side of the main line.<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]	Points 325 where a new line goes off left (which the tour is about to do) to the new stocking ground at the site of the former P'Way Depot. Upper left is the former Mould Shop, the lines to the BOS Plant (off left) run on the embanakment across the background, Bridge 44 is ahead. Looking south.<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]	Continuing round the new infrastructure, now facing east, Points 324 are ahead. Ahead is the former Soakers building which continues, far left, as the former Bloom and Billet Mill. Far right is the former Mould Shop and ahead in the far distance is the BOS Yard (BOS = Basic Oxygen Steel Making).<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]	Continuing on new track, with the former Soakers building ahead again, Points 320 are in front (new loop) and Points 321 are middle right.<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]	Di8s 8.719 & 8.701 are stabled in the short loop between Points 317 (this end) and 318; the former Bloom and Billet Mill is ahead.<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]	Di8 8.704<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]
Hunslet locos 71, 74 & 75 lined up for their next jobs to the west of the blast furnaces on the South Melting Shop Running Road and its spurs.<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]	Queen Mary's bottom (the disused 1938 vintage blast furnace this end that is) looking south beneath the four blast furnaces.<br>[© John Cowburn 2022]	The Stores Road line which passes beneath the refurbished High Line, serving the top of the blast furnaces, ahead.<br>[© John Cowburn 2022]	The BOS Gantry, looking towards end of line, empty hot metal torpedoes this end and loaded ones waiting to be emptied are at the far end.<br>[© John Cowburn 2022]	Looking east, the Scrap Bay line (round to the left) - single journeys only perhaps? East Bank siding is right.<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]	The Scrap Bay<br>[&copy; John Cowburn 2022]