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All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Built by Beardmore at Dalmuir in 1928, Fowler ex-LMS 3F 0-6-0T no 47630 'stored' alongside Barrow Hill shed in the early 1960s. The locomotive was officially withdrawn from here in August 1962 and cut up the following month.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/41000/41672.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![41734 on the coaling stage road at Barrow Hill shed, probably taken in the early 1960s. The locomotive was eventually withdrawn from Langwith Junction at the end of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/42000/42038.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 43968 on Stourton shed (55B), thought to be in 1959. The locomotive was allocated to 55B between 1959 and 1963 and was eventually withdrawn from Royston shed at the end of 1965. [Former long-term mystery image - with thanks to Messrs Smith, Laidlaw, Byers, Salveson, Jamieson, Morgan - and, last but not least, Kenneth Gray who has now confirmed the location] <br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/35000/35541.jpg "Stourton")
![Johnson Midland 3F 0-6-0 no 43456 in the 'stored' locomotive sidings at Stourton shed circa 1959.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/41000/41028.jpg "Stourton")
![Deeley 0-4-0T no 41531 stored alongside the roundhouse at Staveley (Barrow Hill) in April 1960. The locomotive was officially withdrawn from here in May 1963 and cut up at Derby Works later that year. <br>
<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1960]](/images/25000/25667.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Stored Deeley 0-4-0T no 41531 photographed in the sidings at Barrow Hill shed on 10 April 1960, more than 3 years before official withdrawal by BR.<br><br>[K A Gray 10/04/1960]](/images/28000/28596.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Johnson 1F no 41708 once held the distinction of being the oldest operational locomotive on BR. Seen here at Barrow Hill in 1960, the ex-MR 0-6-0T was built at Derby in 1880 and officially withdrawn by BR at the end of 1966. The locomotive has since been restored and is now in preservation [see image 23298].<br><br>[K A Gray 10/04/1960]](/images/29000/29315.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Johnson 0-6-0T no 41763 stabled on Barrow Hill shed in April 1960, with a miscellaneous selection of some of the usual steam-shed 'furniture' lying around.<br><br>[K A Gray 10/04/1960]](/images/30000/30951.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 44098 ambles through the shed yard at 55E, Normanton, in September 1960.<br><br>[K A Gray 24/09/1960]](/images/34000/34764.jpg "Normanton")
![Johnson Midland 2F 0-6-0 no 58260 of 1892 out of use in the sidings alongside Royston shed (55D) on 24 September 1960. Official withdrawal came two months later, followed by disposal through Derby Works.<br><br>[K A Gray 24/09/1960]](/images/46000/46178.jpg "Royston")
![Fowler 2P 4-4-0 no 40581 is one of a number of redundant steam locomotives stored awaiting disposal in the sidings alongside Royston shed in September 1960. Disposal in this case took place at Doncaster Works the following month.<br><br>[K A Gray 24/09/1960]](/images/46000/46588.jpg "Royston")
![J72 0-6-0T 68726 stands back-to-back with relative newcomer D2263 at Normanton shed in March 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 12/03/1961]](/images/32000/32405.jpg "Normanton")
![Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 44458 on Normanton shed in the spring of 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 12/03/1961]](/images/35000/35990.jpg "Normanton")
![Johnson Midland 0-6-0T no 41875 photographed on Canklow shed in May 1961. The locomotive moved to Barrow Hill 3 months later and ended her operational days there in July 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 27/05/1961]](/images/36000/36557.jpg "Canklow")
![Royal Scot no 46164 <I>'The Artists' Rifleman'</I> photographed at Barrow Hill shed on 8 April 1962.<br><br>[K A Gray /04/1962]](/images/45000/45485.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Royal Scot no 46164 <I>'The Artists' Rifleman'</I> on shed at Barrow Hill in April 1962.<br><br>[K A Gray 08/04/1962]](/images/34000/34912.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Britannia Pacific no 70053 <I>Moray Firth</I> photographed on its home shed at 55A Leeds Holbeck on 20 May 1962<br><br>[David Pesterfield 20/05/1962]](/images/26000/26562.jpg "Leeds Holbeck")
![Crab 2-6-0 no 42762 out of use at 55D Royston shed in October 1962. Located between Barnsley and Normanton, Royston shed was closed in 1967 and demolished by the early 1970s.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/10/1962]](/images/32000/32343.jpg "Royston")
![<I>Stored out of use.</I> Redundant steam locomotives in the sidings alongside Royston shed, South Yorkshire, in October 1962. Crab 2-6-0 42770 would not be <I>officially</I> withdrawn from here for another year. Royston shed (55D) finally closed in 1967.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/10/1962]](/images/48000/48732.jpg "Royston")
![Jubilee 45562 <I>Alberta</I> stands in the shed yard at Holbeck in May 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/05/1963]](/images/42000/42254.jpg "Leeds Holbeck")
![Johnson 'half-cab' 1F 0-6-0T no 41708 stands amongst the locomotives in the yard outside 41D Canklow Shed on 13 March 1966.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/03/1966]](/images/31000/31271.jpg "Canklow")
![41D Canklow Shed loco line up on the 13th of March 1966, comprising L-R tanks engines 41708; 41533; 41734; 41528; & 47001.The smokebox of 61051 is just visible on right, and 9F 92201 rests beyond the coaling stage line.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/03/1966]](/images/31000/31310.jpg "Canklow")
![One of the five original Kitson 0F 0-4-0STs built in 1932, no 47001, stands on 41D Canklow shed on 13 March 1966 around the time of its official withdrawal.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/03/1966]](/images/31000/31728.jpg "Canklow")
![Veteran Johnson 1F 0-6-0T no 41708 of 1880, complete with original half-cab, stands on Canklow shed in May 1966. Withdrawn 7 months later from Langwith Junction the locomotive subsequently passed into preservation [see image 23298]. <br><br>[K A Gray 22/05/1966]](/images/39000/39868.jpg "Canklow")
![Black 5 no 44694 with the Saturdays only 1H92 8.20am Bradford Exchange - Bridlington train at Normanton, on 26 August 1967. The locomotive was finally withdrawn by BR from Low Moor shed in October of that year. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/08/1967]](/images/34000/34201.jpg "Normanton")
![The <i>Midland Line Centenary Special</i> railtour stands at Chesterfield on 9 June 1968 behind Britannia Pacific 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I>. The train was on its way from Manchester Victoria to Nottingham Midland where the Britannia would hand over to D138 for the return to London.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/06/1968]](/images/21000/21056.jpg "Chesterfield")
![Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> stands at Chesterfield on 9 June 1968 with the <i>'Midland Line Centenary Special Railtour'</i> on its return south following a visit to Manchester Victoria [see image 32850].<br><br>[K A Gray 09/06/1968]](/images/36000/36525.jpg "Chesterfield")
![Peak 166 stands at Leeds on 8 June 1969.<br><br>[John McIntyre 08/06/1969]](/images/18000/18730.jpg "Leeds")
![In 1971 Northamptonshire iron ore was still being supplied to steelworks on Teesside and this train heading north through the closed station at Barrow Hill, hauled by a pair of Brush Type 2s, is presumed to be such a working. The line on the extreme left is the branch from Hall Lane Junction and Staveley Town.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 17/07/1971]](/images/41000/41313.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![1730 up steel slabs between Foxlow Junction signalbox (background) and Barrow Hill on 19 July 1971.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1971]](/images/30000/30832.jpg "Foxlow Junction")
![An unidentified class 47 heads a down inter-regional mixed freight past a forest of semaphore signals at Barrow Hill on the Midland Railway's 'Old Road' from Chesterfield to Rotherham in the summer of 1971.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1971]](/images/31000/31370.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Peak class 45 no D61 <I>The Royal Army Ordnance Corps</I> passes Clay Cross South Junction south of Chesterfield with a down express in July 1971. If the reporting number is correctly displayed, the destination must be Manchester Piccadilly and the train will be the 06.50 from St. Pancras. Although this started and finished its journey in the LMR, it traversed the ER for a short distance hence the 1M number.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1971]](/images/31000/31532.jpg "Clay Cross South Junction")
![Peak No. 54 <I>'The Royal Pioneer Corps'</I> approaches Clay Cross South Junction, where it will take the Derby line, at about 09.15 on a July morning in 1971. The train is the 08.01 Manchester Piccadilly to London St Pancras express.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1971]](/images/41000/41255.jpg "Clay Cross South Junction")
![A special southbound merry-go-round coal train is brought through the closed station at Barrow Hill by Brush Type 4 No. 1994 in July 1971. The station here had originally been named Barrow Hill and Staveley Works but this was shortened in 1951, just three years before closure.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1971]](/images/41000/41260.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![A Peak takes the Pengham FLT to Portobello FLT containers from fast to slow line at Tapton Jct, just north of Chesterfield, on 20 July 1971. The train is heading for Rotherham via Barrow Hill, avoiding Sheffield Midland station.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/07/1971]](/images/31000/31322.jpg "Tapton Junction")
![Peak No. 54 <I>'The Royal Pioneer Corps'</I> speeds south at Tapton Junction, just north of Chesterfield, on 20 July 1971 (the signal box is visible through the road bridge in the background). Train 1V99 is the 16.15 Newcastle Central to Bristol Temple Meads, which was not scheduled to stop at Chesterfield.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/07/1971]](/images/41000/41624.jpg "Tapton Junction")
![During the early evening of 20th July 1971, an unidentified <I>Peak</I> accelerates away from the Chesterfield stop with the 16.05 St Pancras to Leeds express.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/07/1971]](/images/44000/44319.jpg "Chesterfield")
![Class 47 no 1879 on a northbound train of oil tanks, thought to be returning empty to Tees-side, on the Midland 'Old Road' at Killamarsh in July 1971. The train is passing a pair of class 20s heading an unbraked train of 16t coal wagons south on the up line.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 21/07/1971]](/images/32000/32072.jpg "Beighton Junction")
![Class 47 no 1556 with the fully-fitted 0901 Scunthorpe to Newport Alexandra Park Junction, comprising rolled steel sections on bogie bolster wagons. Photographed in 1971 at Foxlow Junction, just east of Barrow Hill, on the Midland 'Old Road'.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971]](/images/31000/31081.jpg "Foxlow Junction")
![A green/blue class 24 combination powers an up mixed freight southwards along the Midland <I>Old Road</I> at Beighton Junction to the east of Sheffield in the summer of 1971. Leading locomotive is 5001 with 5160 behind.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971]](/images/31000/31591.jpg "Beighton Junction")
![Class 31 No. 5690 trundles along between Foxlow Junction and Barrow Hill in September 1971 with the 1155 Wath to Toton. The loco sports a hybrid livery of green with corporate logo which, from my own observations, was by no means unusual for the later members of this class.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971]](/images/40000/40233.jpg "Foxlow Junction")
![D9 <I>'Snowdon'</I>, one of the ten original class 44 'Peaks', photographed in September 1971 still sporting green livery. The locomotive is passing a fine collection of semaphore signals on the up approach to Foxlow Junction with a freight from the Sheffield area, probably bound for Toton Yard.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971]](/images/40000/40262.jpg "Foxlow Junction")
![Peak No. 135 wheels the very mixed partially fitted 0330 Severn Tunnel Junction to Tinsley past Foxlow Junction, just east of Barrow Hill, in September 1971. The tracks diverging to the left led to Hall Lane Junction (forming a triangle with the branch from Barrow Hill) and Staveley Town.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971]](/images/40000/40283.jpg "Foxlow Junction")
![Brush Type 4 No. 1542 on the Midland 'Old Road' seen just to the east of Barrow Hill station in 1971 with a special ECS working. From the sparkling condition of the Mk 2D coaches, they appear to be on their delivery run from Derby Works to (probably) Heaton Carriage Depot. The train consist is TSO + TSO + BSO + FK + TSO (the TSOs will be part of lot No. 30822, the BSO lot No. 30824 and the FK lot No. 30825). <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971]](/images/41000/41545.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Tinsley based Brush Type 2 No. 5558 passes Foxlow Junction on the Midland 'Old Road' with 8V63, the 1115 Tinsley to Severn Tunnel Junction working. Photographed on 20th September 1971, the class 31 would migrate north to Thornaby within a few weeks.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971]](/images/51000/51245.jpg "Foxlow Junction")
!['Peak' 46179 passes through Barrow Hill on 20 September 1971 with a special fully-fitted train of sheeted tube wagons, possibly originating from the Stanton Ironworks near Ilkeston.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971]](/images/51000/51455.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Green liveried Brush Type 2 No. 5843 with double arrow logo is in charge of an LMR bound partially fitted freight as it passes through an industrial landscape just north of Beighton Junction to the south-east of Sheffield in 1971. The area on the right, then occupied by Brookhouse Colliery, now forms part of the Rother Valley Country Park.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 21/09/1971]](/images/51000/51506.jpg "Beighton Junction")
![Evening arrival from Kings Cross at Leeds in June 1972 behind Deltic 9017 <I>'The Durham Light Infantry'</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/06/1972]](/images/1000/1213.jpg "Leeds")
![A Liverpool - Hull Trans-Pennine DMU at Leeds in June 1972.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/06/1972]](/images/4000/4359.jpg "Leeds")
![Class 40 with a Liverpool - Newcastle service approaching Leeds in June 1972 during changes to signalling and track layout.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/06/1972]](/images/6000/6357.jpg "Leeds")
![EE Type 3 No. 37 133 trundles southwards between Foxlow Junction (the base of the signalbox there is visible through the bridge at top right) and Barrow Hill in May 1974 with an LMR bound coal train - even the two five plank open wagons comprising the fitted head seem to be carrying this commodity.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 30/05/1974]](/images/51000/51166.jpg "Foxlow Junction")
![Scene inside the roundhouse at Barrow Hill during an open day on 22 September 1974.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/09/1974]](/images/27000/27826.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> on display at a Barrow Hill open day on 22 September 1974.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/09/1974]](/images/27000/27850.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Peak No. 45017 clatters over the pointwork outside Goose Hill Junction on 17th July 1975 with the 09.00(SO) Weymouth - Leeds with a portion for Bradford via Huddersfield having been detached at Sheffield. [With thanks to Duncan Young]. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 17/07/1975]](/images/41000/41991.jpg "Normanton")
![The 11:45 Cardiff to Newcastle passing Goose Hill Junction signal box hauled by Peak 45001 (originally D13) on a sultry summer's afternoon in July 1975.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 18/07/1975]](/images/43000/43636.jpg "Normanton")
![5M48 was that well known working, the Heaton to Manchester Red Bank newspaper empties, although in diesel days the motive power was a bit more mundane than the variety of double-headed steam which had taken it through the Pennines in earlier years. On 19 July 1975 'Peak' No. 45058 slows on the approach to Goose Hill Junction, Normanton, where it will cross over from the up fast onto the Calder Valley line.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1975]](/images/40000/40223.jpg "Normanton")
![Just before three o'clock on a summer Saturday afternoon in 1975, Peak No. 45003 speeds south between Normanton station and Goose Hill Junction with the 14.43 Leeds - Plymouth.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1975]](/images/40000/40381.jpg "Normanton")
![Non train heating boiler class 47 No. 47322 away from its usual freight duty haunts on 19 July 1975. The locomotive is passing Goose Hill Junction, Normanton, with the summer Saturday 09.10 Tenby - York.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1975]](/images/40000/40527.jpg "Normanton")
![I'm not sure whether a class 40 pairing qualified as 'super power' but it was certainly super heavyweight! 40183 (leading) and 40123 are signalled onto the Wakefield Kirkgate line at Goose Hill Junction, Normanton, in July 1975. The train is the Bradford Forster Square - Manchester Red Bank newspaper empties, a regular double-headed working.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/07/1975]](/images/42000/42132.jpg "Normanton")
![Steam heat 'Peak' No. 45044 <I>Royal Inniskilling Fusilier</I> forges south past the site of Cudworth station in August 1975 with the through service from Glasgow Central to London St. Pancras. The train is the one-time 'Thames Clyde Express' although the name had ceased to be used the previous May.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975]](/images/39000/39330.jpg "Cudworth")
![The late morning Cardiff to Newcastle express approaches Cudworth Station under caution in August 1975 behind Peak No. 46028. The lines to the right led to Stairfoot Junction, giving a connection between Wath Yard and the ex-MR main line. This has long since been expunged from the landscape, as indeed has the main line.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975]](/images/41000/41883.jpg "Cudworth")
![The summer Saturday 09.10 Tenby - York passes Cudworth Station signal box in August 1975 behind Brush Type 4 no 47087 <I>Cyclops</I>.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975]](/images/46000/46167.jpg "Cudworth")
![47045 (D1626) speeds the 14:00 Newcastle - Bristol past the disused station at Cudworth on a warm but sultry August Saturday afternoon in 1975.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975]](/images/46000/46181.jpg "Cudworth")
![47 047 powers under the bridge carrying the Heath Common to Snydale road over the former MR main line just north of Oakenshaw North Junction. The wide spacing of the up and down lines betrays the fact that four tracks once existed here, but at least in 1975 the line was still carrying class 1 trains - indeed NE to SW expresses not calling at Wakefield had only recently reverted to this route as it was by then no longer plagued by colliery subsidence as had been the case in earlier years. Forty years later, no railway exists here and I presume the trackbed is occupied by a birch forest. The train is the 09:16 Leeds - London St. Pancras and the date is 2 August 1975<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975]](/images/55000/55487.jpg "Oakenshaw North Junction")
![When Healey Mills based EE Type 4 No. 40 048 passed me at 10:23 on the morning of Saturday 2 August 1975 near Oakenshaw North Junction with a rake of Mk 1 coaches in tow, I assumed that this was an excursion to the Yorkshire coast. However, after perusing the 1975 BR timetable recently in the NLS, I have now concluded that the train is actually the dated 09:42 SO Sheffield to Glasgow, the successor to the 06:40 SO Birmingham to Glasgow, a train of some renown in 1966/67 because of its 'Jubilee' haulage over the S&C. In 1975 the class 40 no doubt gave way to a Holbeck based class 45 at Leeds.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975]](/images/55000/55493.jpg "Oakenshaw North Junction")
![46002 with the 10.12 Newcastle - Cardiff on the former MR main line just south of Goose Hill Junction, Normanton, on 3 April 1976. It is about to pass Lockes Sidings signal-box, located on the adjacent ex L&Y main line to Wakefield and Manchester. [See image 38058]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/04/1976]](/images/37000/37457.jpg "Normanton")
![A northbound express, possibly the 08.00 St Pancras - Glasgow, approaching Normanton from the Cudworth direction in April 1976 with 45 057 in charge, still sporting the split headcode panels fitted to earlier members of the class. The chimney and cooling towers visible above the loco belonged to Wakefield power station in whose shadow stood Wakefield shed [see image 21784], still in use at the time as a wagon repair shop.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/04/1976]](/images/37000/37729.jpg "Normanton")
![47129 passes behind Lockes Siding signal box (the wooden steps on the extreme right gave access to it) in April 1976 as it approaches Goosehill Junction, Normanton, on the ex-MR main line with what is thought to be the 07.30 Birmingham - Newcastle. [See image 37457]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/04/1976]](/images/38000/38058.jpg "Normanton")
![The Saturday 06.55 Gloucester - Leeds on the former Midland mainline half a mile south of Goose Hill Junction in April 1976. 45071 was the first the of the class to run without a headcode panel (following accident repairs carried out in 1975) in anticipation of reporting numbers no longer being displayed, a policy implemented from early in 1976.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/04/1976]](/images/38000/38512.jpg "Normanton")
![The first two months of 1977 saw the 'Western' diesel-hydraulics ranging far and wide on railtour duty as their demise drew near. Here No. 1023 'Western Fusilier' accelerates past Goose Hill Junction, Normanton, having suffered a signal check on the approach, with the <I>'Western Finale'</I> special from Exeter to York.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/38000/38590.jpg "Normanton")
![A small band of photographers has assembled on the wide island platform at Normanton station on 12 February 1977 to see No. 1023 <I>Western Fusilier</I> pass on the 'Western Finale' railtour from Exeter to York. One suspects that a similar event in the 21st century would see a much bigger turnout.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/38000/38689.jpg "Normanton")
![EE Type 3 No. 37098 trundles along the down slow line opposite Goose Hill Junction box, Normanton, with a train of empty spoil wagons on Saturday 12 February 1977. No doubt a positioning move in readiness for overnight track work come the cessation of normal traffic in the late evening. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/42000/42291.jpg "Normanton")
![When first introduced to service in April 1960 from Gateshead shed, EE Type 4 No. D270 would have been no stranger to class 1 work on the ECML, but by 1977 (as 40070) it was reduced to pottering about the West Riding on colliery trip workings from Healey Mills. Here it is on a Saturday morning in February of that year heading home to HM past Goose Hill Junction with just an ex-LMS brake-van in tow. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/42000/42561.jpg "Normanton")
![Judging by the procession of engineer's trains which passed Goose Hill Jn around lunchtime on Saturday 12th February 1977, there must have been relaying scheduled somewhere in the Leeds area that weekend. The first of these to appear, at 12.47, was a short train of prefabricated track panels with 40169 from Healey Mills in charge.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/43000/43560.jpg "Normanton")
![Peak No. 45025 (D19) passes under Newstead Lane Bridge between Normanton station and Goose Hill Junction at 12:45 on Saturday 12th February 1977. I have been unable to reconcile the time with any booked up working in the public timetable for 1976-77 but it is possible the train is a Leeds United - Derby Footex (Leeds won 1-0).<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/45000/45740.jpg "Normanton")
![Holbeck based 31146 approaches Goose Hill Junction on the up slow line on 12 March 1977 with a trip working of unbraked 16T mineral wagons bound for Healey Mills Yard.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/45000/45768.jpg "Normanton")
![The marker lights on Peak 45059 (D98) <I>Royal Engineer</I>, heading the 10:12 Newcastle to Cardiff, glow brightly despite it being around noon, so Saturday 12th February 1977 was obviously a typical gloomy West Riding winter's day! The train has just negotiated the reverse curves around the wide island platform at Normanton.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/45000/45802.jpg "Normanton")
![Just after mid-day on 12th February 1977, HM allocated 37246 heads for home on the up slow line between Normanton station and Goose Hill Junction. With the day being a Saturday, its crew will doubtless be looking forward to going off duty once they get back to Healey Mills.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/45000/45819.jpg "Normanton")
![The last in a procession of Engineer's trains to pass Goose Hill Junction northbound on Saturday 12th February 1977 was a ramshackle collection of high and low sided open spoil wagons hauled by 37098. Note the photographers waiting on Newstead Lane Bridge for the passage of the <I>Western Finale</I> railtour which had been due almost an hour previously. [See image 38590]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/45000/45926.jpg "Normanton")
![40038 south of Goose Hill Junction box in February 1977 with ballast in a variety of Engineer's wagons. They are all equipped with the vacuum brake and the train is running as a fully fitted working with the loco displaying the correct class 6 headcode discs, despite the requirement for this having been abolished a year earlier. The vantage point gives a good view of the facing crossover arrangement between the ex-MR and ex-L&Y lines.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/02/1977]](/images/45000/45950.jpg "Normanton")
![Peak 45066 (ex D114) brings a partially fitted inter-regional freight, probably bound for Tinsley Yard, past Foxlow Junction near Barrow Hill in May 1977. Although only a freight line, there were up and down loops between Foxlow Junction and Renishaw Park Goods Junction.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/05/1977]](/images/44000/44575.jpg "Foxlow Junction")
![EE Type 3s Nos. 37056 and 37165 wheel a northbound train of empty iron ore hoppers through Goose Hill Junction, Normanton, on 22 June 1977. I assume the train is destined for Redcar, (any confirmation of likely origin/destination would be appreciated). [Image from a roll of film developed more than 30 years after exposure].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/06/1977]](/images/40000/40873.jpg "Normanton")
![Having just cleared Chesterfield station in May 1980 a northbound freight, hauled by a pair of class 20s, seems to be moving over to the down slow line to avoid the less than attractive car dump. The town's famous <I>twisted spire</I> can just be seen through the haze in the right background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/1980]](/images/27000/27429.jpg "Chesterfield")
![A Class 40 with a ballast train approaching Chesterfield station from the north on a misty May morning in 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/1980]](/images/43000/43908.jpg "Chesterfield")
![A down freight, photographed heading north towards Tapton Junction on 5 May 1980 shortly after passing through Chesterfield station behind a pair of EE Type 1s.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/1980]](/images/53000/53129.jpg "Chesterfield")
![31236 heads east through Normanton with a mixed freight on 5th December 1980. At this time, although open, the station had a derelict feel about it but it survives today and has been tidied up a little [See image 40107]. The Brush Type 2 depicted in this unfortunately grainy photo was fitted with ETH four years later and renumbered 31433. It was eventually withdrawn (as 31533) in 1995. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/12/1980]](/images/62000/62341.jpg "Normanton")
![A class 47 takes a freight south through Rotherham Masborough station in May 1981 on the Sheffield avoiding line. Held in the down loop is a class 40 with a ballast train. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1981]](/images/3000/3070.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![<I>'Oil be seeing you...' </I> crew change for a class 47 with a tank train at the south end of Rotherham Masborough station in May 1981. In the background an EE Type 4 waits for a path with another northbound freight. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1981]](/images/29000/29803.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![Thornaby shed's Brush Type 4 no 47052 approaching Rotherham Masborough from the north on a bright May morning in 1981 with a train of oil tanks from Teesside.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1981]](/images/39000/39866.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![View north from platform 4 at Rotherham Masborough on a scorching hot day in May 1981. Holbeck <I>'Peak'</I> no 45073 has just run through platform 1 and passed below Midland Road bridge heading for Leeds with a train from Bristol. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1981]](/images/39000/39925.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![<I>'Good grief... there's a story here about the possibility of tilting trains in the future!'</I> A couple of sceptics catch up with the latest news on the barrow crossing at Rotherham Masborough on a sunny afternoon in May 1981. Meantime, a York - Bristol express runs south through the station at speed behind 47445.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1981]](/images/40000/40295.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![A train of 100t tanks rumbles north through platform 3 at Rotherham Masborough in May 1981. The train is on the goods lines from Tapton Junction avoiding Sheffield. The main north east - south west lines which run through platforms 1 and 2 are just visible under Midland Road bridge in the background. [See image 39925]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1981]](/images/41000/41035.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![Bescot class 47 no 47386 brings a train of 100t oil tanks under Coronation Bridge and north through Rotherham Masborough station in May 1981. The station finally closed in October 1988.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1981]](/images/41000/41914.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![A class 47 restarts a northbound tank train at Rotherham Masborough station in May 1981 following a stop for a crew change. [See image 29803]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1981]](/images/53000/53292.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![40025 (formerly Lusitania) runs through Leeds station on 10 April 1982.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 10/04/1982]](/images/24000/24131.jpg "Leeds")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific no 46229 <I>Duchess of Hamilton</I> sets out from Leeds with the final leg of the <I>Trans Pennine Pullman</I> to Carlisle on 10 April 1982.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 10/04/1982]](/images/24000/24151.jpg "Leeds")
![A pair of class 20s led by 20187 passes through Derby station on 15 July 1983.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 15/07/1983]](/images/21000/21044.jpg "Derby")
![45 114 stands at Leeds in June 1986.<br><br>[David Panton //1986]](/images/18000/18373.jpg "Leeds")
![The former signal box at Cudworth, South Yorkshire, photographed circa 1986, with a Doncaster - Manchester Victoria route learning special standing alongside. <br>
<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1986]](/images/22000/22332.jpg "Cudworth")
![Freightliner 47150 and 47258 stabled at the east end of Stourton Freightliner Terminal, Leeds, in 1999. The former stands on one of the terminal tracks and the latter on a spur that ran alongside Valley Farm Road to service a steel stockholding warehouse. The link into the warehouse is no more, and the spur to the right has long been out of use.<br><br>[David Pesterfield //1999]](/images/50000/50828.jpg "Stourton Freightliner Terminal")
![Strange bedfellows in Barrow Hill roundhouse.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/11/2006]](/images/12000/12726.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Treeton Junction, eastern entry point to Tinsley Yard. The connection may re-open with the redevelopment of the yard. View from above former station. Treeton North Jnct looks to be taken out.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/11/2006]](/images/12000/12728.jpg "Treeton")
![Inside Barrow Hill roundhouse in November 2006.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/11/2006]](/images/13000/13378.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![MGR trains sit in the sidings at Barrow Hill. View looks south. The line to the left is the recently closed line to Creswell, Oxcroft, Seymour Junction and Bolsover all of which have closed. That in the centre is to Rotherham.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/11/2006]](/images/13000/13382.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Southbound at Chesterfield.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/11/2006]](/images/13000/13422.jpg "Chesterfield")
![Meeting at Chesterfield. View looks south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/11/2006]](/images/13000/13424.jpg "Chesterfield")
![The closed station at Rotherham Masborough. The three lines to the left and centre run to Sheffield and the two on the right run by the old North Midland Railway mainline to Derby by Barrow Hill.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 21/11/2006]](/images/12000/12591.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![Looking south from Rotherham Masborough. The line to the left is the old Midland mainline to Chesterfield and to the right the line to Sheffield.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 21/11/2006]](/images/13000/13199.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![Leeds in September 2006 as a class 333 arrives from Skipton.<br><br>[John McIntyre 21/9/2006]](/images/13000/13354.jpg "Leeds")
![Class 185 arrives at Leeds with a train for Scarborough in September 2006.<br><br>[John McIntyre 21/9/2006]](/images/13000/13365.jpg "Leeds")
![Classes 144, 185 and 321 at the south end of Leeds in September 2006.<br><br>[John McIntyre 21/9/2006]](/images/13000/13434.jpg "Leeds")
![91017, with National Express branding over GNER livery, is seen newly arrived from Kings Cross in the snow at Leeds on 3rd February 2009. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 03/02/2009]](/images/57000/57561.jpg "Leeds")
![First TransPennine Express unit 185106 pauses at Leeds platform 15b with a Manchester Airport - Newcastle Central service on 22 April 2009.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/2009]](/images/24000/24732.jpg "Leeds")
![A Northern class 333 emu at the buffer stops at Leeds in April 2009<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/2009]](/images/27000/27168.jpg "Leeds")
![Soaking up the sunshine at Leeds on 22 April 2009. On the right Northern 333005 is arriving with the 1300 ex Bradford Forster Square. Over to the left is the recently terminated East Coast Trains 1105 from London Kings Cross. <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/2009]](/images/63000/63490.jpg "Leeds")
![Northern Rail 158853 approaches soon to be removed Woodlesford station foot crossing on the 1037 ex Leeds limited stop service to Sheffield, with preparation work for new footbridge installation visible across the line.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 18/09/2010]](/images/30000/30850.jpg "Woodlesford")
![The soon to be replaced foot crossing at Woodlesford Station seen from the down platform, with preparation work for the new footbridge installation visible across the line. Klaxons and voice warnings have been added here recently to supplement the red stop lights.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 18/09/2010]](/images/30000/30851.jpg "Woodlesford")
![158906 runs slowly under the new footbridge at Woodlesford Station on the 12.05 ex Leeds fast service to Nottingham following the late running 12.08 Knottingley departure. The footbridge is to replace the existing boarded crossing seen forward of the DMU. [See image 30851] <br><br>[David Pesterfield 19/01/2011]](/images/32000/32401.jpg "Woodlesford")
![The 185 1/4 mile post, indicating distance from St. Pancras along the former Midland mainline route via Royston, is now located a significant distance from the current operational running line on the up side, being sited by a former siding end wall at the rear of the area now comprising the west end of Normanton station car park. The station access road can be seen beyond.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 17/03/2011]](/images/33000/33264.jpg "Normanton")
![Ready for departure from Leeds are 43316, leading an East Coast HST for Kings Cross, and 158872 on a Calder Valley service for Manchester Victoria. On this Saturday I noticed that, with one exception, every train on a very busy departure board was on time. The only late service was a SW England to Aberdeen train and that was only running 15 minutes late. Northern Rail have had a big push on punctuality recently that certainly seems to be paying off. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/03/2011]](/images/33000/33592.jpg "Leeds")
![An East Midlands train bound for St Pancras stands at Derby on 14 May 2011. <br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/05/2011]](/images/34000/34090.jpg "Derby")
![A CrossCountry service stops at Derby on 14 May on its way to Birmingham New Street.<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/05/2011]](/images/34000/34101.jpg "Derby")
![Scene at Leeds on 4 November 2011 with a class 91 waiting to return to Kings Cross, while class 144 and 153 diesel services share the adjacent platform.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/11/2011]](/images/36000/36319.jpg "Leeds")
![A First TransPennine class 170 unit bound for Hull arrives at Leeds on 4 November 2011, while a Northern service to Sheffield waits in the bay platform on the right, formed by a two car Class 158 unit.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/11/2011]](/images/36000/36358.jpg "Leeds")
![One of a number of West Midlands Class 150s to have migrated north recently (and not just for the winter) is seen waiting alongside platform 9d at Leeds on 4 November 2011 with a service to Selby. These 'green' units have also been seen in Blackpool, Preston, Liverpool and Manchester and make a change from the predominant 'blue' of the region's usual train services.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/11/2011]](/images/36000/36368.jpg "Leeds")
![60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> inside Barrow Hill roundhouse on 1 July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39443.jpg "Barrow Hill")
!['Peak' 45105 standing in the yard at Barrow Hill in July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39447.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Brighton Belle Pullman car 88, now named <I>'Diamond Jubilee'</I>, stands at Barrow Hill in July 2012. <I>'Bringing back the Brighton Belle'</I> is currently Britain's biggest rail restoration project.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39462.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![D4092 at Barrow Hill on 1 July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39474.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![D213 meets 89001 - photographed in the sidings at Barrow Hill on 1 July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39493.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![84001 in the sidings at Barrow Hill on 1 July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39540.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![D2587 photographed at Barrow Hill in July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39563.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![GCR 506 Butler Henderson at Barrow Hill on the 1st of July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39571.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![The scene around the turntable inside Barrow Hill Roundhouse on 1 July 2012. Line-up from left to right features D4092, 37057, 26007, E3035, 85006, 81002 and 37275.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39590.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Staveley Engine Shed signal box, photographed at Barrow Hill on 1 July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39598.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![41708 inside the roundhouse at Barrow Hill in July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39611.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![View south west over Normanton station on 26 August 2012 showing the wide loop required for the westbound platform line compared to the eastbound. 158790 has just called with the 12.34 Leeds - Sheffield. [See image 34201] <br><br>[David Pesterfield 26/08/2012]](/images/40000/40107.jpg "Normanton")
![Amongst all that steel is a station. The new footbridge at Normanton Station dominates the station proper in the southerly view across much 'rationalised' former railway land, with the new housing having replaced the former station hotel. [See image 38689]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 26/08/2012]](/images/40000/40120.jpg "Normanton")
![Refurbished class 56 no. 312 (in Cotswold Railways livery) languishes between Derby station and Etches Park depot on 15th September 2012.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 15/09/2012]](/images/40000/40546.jpg "Derby")
![The 14.50 to Matlock, originating from Nottingham, stands alongside platform 1b at Derby station on 15 September 2012. I liked the old Derby station in my younger days, but have gradually come to appreciate the clean and airy feel of the 'new' station as I get older!<br><br>[Ken Strachan 15/09/2012]](/images/40000/40786.jpg "Derby")
![The 14.42 service to Crewe getting ready to leave Derby platform 2 on 15th September 2012. [see image 40786 for a classmate not very far away]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 15/09/2012]](/images/40000/40945.jpg "Derby")
![Fortunately the 14.42 to Crewe (the class 153) is about to leave Derby in the opposite direction from the 14.36 to Cardiff on 15 September 2012.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 15/09/2012]](/images/43000/43287.jpg "Derby")
![Devon & Cornwall Railway Company's 56311, coupled to ex Jarvis Rail 56301 in sidings alongside Derby Station south junction, emits an initial burst of 'clag' just after being started up on a cold and frosty 15 January morning. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 15/01/2013]](/images/41000/41777.jpg "Derby")
![Scene on the east side of a snow covered Derby Station on 11 February 2013. Nearest the camera is 56301, while in the background 97304 on a Network Rail test train stands alongside 31190.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 11/02/2013]](/images/42000/42105.jpg "Derby")
![If the strapping blokes who forged this coupling from red-hot iron had known it would end up being an ornament in a car park fence, they'd probably have been less than amused.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 21/02/2013]](/images/42000/42250.jpg "Derby")
![This clock was one of the more attractive parts of the now-demolished second Derby station. Fortunately, they saw fit to relocate it to the far end of the car park. [see image 42250]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 21/02/2013]](/images/42000/42520.jpg "Derby")
![The 12.49 Northern Rail service to Carlisle stands at Leeds on 8 March 2013.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 08/03/2013]](/images/42000/42302.jpg "Leeds")
![Devon & Cornwall Railway liveried 56303 is stabled in the down side north end loading dock siding by Derby Station on the morning of 16 April 2013.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 16/04/2013]](/images/42000/42791.jpg "Derby")
![GBRf 66724 stands on Etches Park depot as a XC Turbostar DMU heads towards Derby Station from the Nottingham direction. In the background Network Rail measurement train rolling stock is stabled near the RVEL depot. Photographed on 2 May 2013 from a passing northbound train.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 02/05/2013]](/images/43000/43105.jpg "Derby")
![East Midlands Trains Meridian 222010 runs into Derby Station, a few minutes late, on 20 March 2014 with the 12.49 ex Sheffield to St Pancras service. Standing on the adjacent road are Devon & Cornwall Railways 56303 and 31452.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 20/03/2014]](/images/46000/46725.jpg "Derby")
![View from the south end of Derby station towards Etches Park depot on 20 March. A class 08 shunter is stabled on the depot against a barrier vehicle, and a class 37 is stabled beyond the running lines in storage sidings for the RVEL maintenance facility at the former RTC site.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 20/03/2014]](/images/46000/46743.jpg "Derby")
![56303 propels 31452, both part of the DCR loco fleet, onto a stabling line on the east side of Derby station on 20 March 2014.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 20/03/2014]](/images/46000/46778.jpg "Derby")
![Devon & Cornwall Railway 31452 stands alongside platform 6 at Derby Station on 20 March 2014. Meantime, CrossCountry DMU 170522 boards at that platform with the 13.37 departure to Cardiff Central, ex-Nottingham.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 20/03/2014]](/images/46000/46831.jpg "Derby")
![The 12.49 service to Carlisle via the S&C waits to leave Leeds on 25 March. <br><br>[Bruce McCartney 25/03/2014]](/images/46000/46905.jpg "Leeds")
![View over the west end of Leeds on 29 July sees 158s standing at bay platforms 10, 13 & 17, with a further member of the class running into through platform 8 on the left. Odd man out is the 142 Pacer at Platform 17.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 29/07/2014]](/images/48000/48293.jpg "Leeds")
![41001, a prototype HST power car, on display at the first ever Open Day to be held at Etches Park depot on 13 September 2014. Notice the cunning rearrangement of the road vehicle crash barrier to allow cab access. [See image 34909]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 13/09/2014]](/images/48000/48798.jpg "Derby, Etches Park")
![You know when you've been Tangoed: Harry Needle's bright orange 20314 [see image 36456 for a previous livery] poses next to GBRf 20901 behind Derby station on 13 September, the day of the Etches Park Open Day.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 13/09/2014]](/images/48000/48833.jpg "Derby")
![A proper look at 20901 in GBRf livery at Derby on 13 September [see image 48833] during the Etches Park open day. Part of Derby Works can be seen on the left.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 13/09/2014]](/images/48000/48854.jpg "Derby")
![08899 resplendent in crimson lake livery at the Etches Park Open Day on 13 September. Far be it from me to niggle, but there seems to be more brown than red in the paint mix!<br><br>[Ken Strachan 13/09/2014]](/images/48000/48902.jpg "Derby, Etches Park")
![This long, thin shed is adjacent to the A52 dual carriageway, alongside the remains of Chaddesden yard. It is now a fireplace showroom, but was formerly a wagon repair shop. Two pairs of rails can be seen in the gravel at the far end from this shot. Apparently, hump shunting in 'Chaddo' was subject to heavy impacts - as was a nearby junction on the ring road!<br><br>[Ken Strachan 13/09/2014]](/images/48000/48909.jpg "Derby")
![Just Champion - D1015 puts a bit of Western flavour into the East Midlands at the Etches Park Open Day on 13 September. [See image 18918]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 13/09/2014]](/images/49000/49582.jpg "Derby, Etches Park")
![Looking north over the former Rotherham Masborough station on 13 October 2014 as 47815 hauls 59003 <I>Yeoman Highlander</I> south to Eastleigh Works from Immingham docks. The ex-Foster Yeoman class 59 had been repatriated from Germany following purchase by GBRf. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/10/2014]](/images/49000/49032.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![View south from Rotherham Masboro in October 2014, with the Midland Railway old main line to Chesterfield, bypassing Sheffield, on the left and the current main line to the right. Note the severe curve prior to the latter reaching the junction with the Holmes Chord line from Rotherham Central. [See image 49308 for the view north from the same bridge.] <br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/10/2014]](/images/49000/49856.jpg "Rotherham Masborough")
![TransPennine unit 185135 awaits departure time at Leeds on 19 March with a service to Liverpool Lime Street.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 19/03/2015]](/images/50000/50753.jpg "Leeds")
![View from the station footbridge at Leeds on 19 March.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 19/03/2015]](/images/50000/50776.jpg "Leeds")
![A down CrossCountry Voyager meets an up East Midlands Meridian at Derby on 4 May, while a Nottingham service approaches Etches Park in the background. <br><br>[Ken Strachan 04/05/2015]](/images/51000/51327.jpg "Derby")
![Now, I wonder what company owned this one - LNER 0-6-0 no. 8217 on static exhibit at Barrow Hill. This J17 (BR No. 65567) is the sole survivor of its class. [see image 13378] for its near neighbour.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 27/02/2016]](/images/54000/54377.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Imaginary telephone conversation: Hello Mr. Railtour operator, you know you wanted D9015 for your tour tomorrow? Well, we've just got to put the engine and the front bogie back in - hello? - 'Tulyar' in an Airfix frame of mind in the DPS shed at Barrow Hill.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 27/02/2016]](/images/54000/54565.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![89001 resting up between main line turns in February 2016. So far, the rest has been for about ten years. That 37 in the background looks rather high-vis.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 27/02/2016]](/images/55000/55700.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![The diesel and electric side of the turntable at Barrow Hill [see also image 39590]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 27/02/2016]](/images/55000/55766.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![Platform staff and footplate crew confer before the departure of a BLS special from Barrow Hill during an open day on 27 February 2016.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 27/02/2016]](/images/59000/59036.jpg "Barrow Hill")
![GBRf 66749 heads south, passing under the goods line section of Shay Lane bridge on the former four track Midland Main Line at Walton, near Wakefield. The trainload of silica sand is en route from Middleton Towers, Norfolk, to Monk Bretton glassworks near Barnsley. The view is taken from a footbridge I have not stood on for 50 years, from when I was a member of the Wakefield Railfans Club that rented the ticket office and waiting room, and had free rein of both platforms, at the former Sandal & Walton station. This was from the early 60s to mid 70s when still a fully operational line for many years with both express passenger and fast goods working through the platforms. [Ref query 12838]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/07/2016]](/images/55000/55781.jpg "Walton")
![GBRf 66749 heads south along the former four track Midland Main line, shortly after passing the former Sandal & Walton station site, with a cargo of silica sand from Middleton Towers in Norfolk destined for the glassworks at Monk Bretton near Barnsley. The section of track forward of the loco originally ran through a tunnel, but was opened up when the line was increased from two tracks to four. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/07/2016]](/images/55000/55883.jpg "Walton")
![Looking across the sidings and running lines to the Freightliner TMD at Leeds Midland Road, with the two first built class 70s stabled at the eastern end of the long term stored loco line. 70002 is straight ahead, with the cab of 70001 to the right. [Ref query 1051]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 26/04/2017]](/images/59000/59547.jpg "Leeds Midland Road TMD")
![GBRf 66719 heads west, passing the Freightliner Midland Road TMD, with a loaded working from the recently rail connected Tarmac Arcow Quarry near Horton in Ribblesdale. The rake of wagons appear to be the new GBRf aggregates wagons created by shortening former bottom discharge coal wagons, by removing the centre hopper section, to make them more suitable for loading fully with the heavier aggregates. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 26/04/2017]](/images/59000/59581.jpg "Stourton")
![Looking into Freightliner's Leeds Midland Road TMD from the vehicle entrance with 66613 and 70010 stabled closest to camera. Beyond are 66585, with the cab end of 70002 to left and 90041 to right.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 26/04/2017]](/images/59000/59640.jpg "Leeds Midland Road TMD")
![Gosh, is that the time? The old station clock can be seen on the left, at the Brunswick Inn end of Derby station. The loco is Devon and Cornwall Railway's 56.303.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 07/12/2017]](/images/63000/63470.jpg "Derby")
