EDF Tracker - 23rd January 2016

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47786 waiting to lead out of Cleethorpes P3, extreme middle right are original GCR station buildings. [© Jenny Williamson 2016]	Early morning at Carnforth; just one question: ''Where exactly is Platform 1?'' [© Jenny Williamson 2016]	Passing Brigg brought back memories of our 3 Jun 1981 evening trip on the sugar factory branch there. The day had started for 25 Members at 08.00 with comprehensive trips at Bardney Sugar Factory followed by Keadby Power Station then a brakevan trip from Dragonby Sidings to the closed Normanby Park Steel Works (the railway was still useable) and Flixborough Wharf. LEFT: At Brigg the main line (seen behind the loco) had rather more passenger trains then! The British Sugar loco is seen at the end of the very long headshunt which ran alongside the main line then veered off into a field (bottom left on the map) - it is on track, honest! The site is now a gas fired power station) [© Ian Mortimer 1981]	Cleethorpes in P3, the elusive P4 is right, but rest assured, our FS is a very determined man! (P4 was 'eventually' covered on our TPE Class 170 Farewell tour in July 2016 - what took him so long?!)	It is well known that BLS visits reach the parts that others don't reach! This is the view west from the roof of the former Keadby Power Station (coal fired) on 3 Jun 1981, after the track had been traversed of course! It was a very distinctive large brick building with a flat roof, visible from miles around in the flat open North Lincolnshire countryside and operated from 1952 to 1984. There is a gas-fired station here now. The exchange sidings can be seen with a CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board) yellow locomotive and a freight train from the Scunthorpe to Doncaster direction is passing on the left. Far left is the Stainforth and Keadby Canal, the power station is on the River Trent, behind the photographer. Note the coal stocks (right) were low as the station was on standby only by then.	A 1954 map extract; the power station building (just a few years old then) is just below the 'K' in Keadby and the BR exchange sidings are to the left leading to the main line connection. Doncaster is to the left and Scunthorpe right. The River Trent flows from bottom to top. Just south of the power station where the main lines heads southeast to Scunthorpe is Keadby Canal Jn, the straight branch heading east to the locks is to Keadby (OP 10 Sep 1959, RN 'Keadby for Amcotts and Burringham' 1 Oct 1866, CP 2 Nov 1874, CG 3 May 1971). On the opposite side of the river is the Gunness Wharf Branch (CG by 1981) from Gunhouse Jn off to the right.