¿Donde esta locotractor Yorkshire del JOP Bilbao?
Publicado: Jue Mar 20, 2008 7:26 am
This drab olive, otherwise un-lettered and un-numbered, -B- dhS, one of a handfull of YEC-licenced diesel industrial units built by Sdad. Española de Construcciónes Naval, is thought to be Junta de Obras del Puerto de Bilbao #3.
It was photographed alongside an empty riverside on the Muelle de Uribitarte a few blocks from the Estación Portugalete suburban terminus in Bilbao 19 September 1979.
A search for the site and a kilometre either side six years later in 1989 revealed nothing but carparks and fenced compounds with all trace of trackage covered over.
The Junta de Obras del Puerto de Bilbao previously had a number of rail-served docks along the Río Nervión. The shipping operations this far up-river, which were largely barge-based, had ceased in favour of the specialised container port near the river mouth. Did the SECN/YEC also move to there, if not, where is it now?
Gracias
Philip G Graham
It was photographed alongside an empty riverside on the Muelle de Uribitarte a few blocks from the Estación Portugalete suburban terminus in Bilbao 19 September 1979.
A search for the site and a kilometre either side six years later in 1989 revealed nothing but carparks and fenced compounds with all trace of trackage covered over.
The Junta de Obras del Puerto de Bilbao previously had a number of rail-served docks along the Río Nervión. The shipping operations this far up-river, which were largely barge-based, had ceased in favour of the specialised container port near the river mouth. Did the SECN/YEC also move to there, if not, where is it now?
Gracias
Philip G Graham