Crewe built BR Sulzer Type 2 sisters 24082 and 24087 accelerate away from the Woodhead line eastbound platform at Penistone on 4 December 1976, whilst working the Wirral Railway Circle's 'Great Central' railtour which ran from Crewe to Crewe, outward via the Woodhead Route to Beighton Junction then south to Loughborough with return via the Hope Valley route. This tour was a precursor to the start of the mass withdrawal of the Class 24s.

Location: Penistone (former)

Original line: Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway

Operator: British Rail

Photographer: David Pesterfield

Contact photographer: David Pesterfield

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Date: 04/12/1976

Image number: 80922

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