(15 Dec 2013, 4:04 am)alibill_36 wrote The train you seen was the RHTT train (leaf buster) which on the 28/11 was worked by 47805/47810 with two wagons sandwiched between them.
3S77 Carlisle - Carlisle via the world due south through Durham 08:30 back north 13:53.
Off Carlisle 03:35 due back..........16:45 the smoking/steaming would be the jets on the wagons blasting the crap (if any) off the tracks.
Ah, there you go. That would explain it.
Certainly didn't get a good look at them due to the Voyager, but what I did see, ties in the example you gave.
However, it was a good while before 8.30 that it went through and at 8.30 a freight train was heading south.