56053 leaves Bescot with a 6Z11 steel train for Round Oak. It's just emerged from under the M6 and started the climb around Bescot Curve.
The first four wagons are vans, but most of this train consisted of steel coil on flar-rack containers loaded on intermodal wagons. The
photo was taken at 15:18 on Friday 19th March 1993, and this was the last southbound train (and indeed the last
southbound movement of any kind) on the line before it closed.
