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A Railwayman's View - BR Midland Region by Peter Collins > Sheffield
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LPPC DSL CO 0058-Edit Don’t forget to take the pack-a-macs, it’s an English summer as a period dated holiday train rolls into a miserable Sheffield Midland in August. Bedraggled and still wearing its original two-tone green livery Brush Type 4 Class 47 number 1865 (later 47215), which was an Immingham based loco, more used to dragging air-braked coal hauls every day, heads a remarkably smart set of Mark Ones hopefully to brighter climes. This loco seems to have suffered from collision damage to the front left hand side. Keywords: Digital, Rights Managed, Stock
LPPC DSL CO 0007-Edit A dismal summer’s day at Sheffield does nothing to highlight the almost depressing sight of a Metropolitan Cammell Class 101 stabled on a centre road between services and a Class 110 Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon three-car set that has just arrived as a terminating train from Manchester via the Hope Valley. There is irony in this in that these particular DMUs were built especially for and with great fanfare, the Calder Valley route and to help with the gradients on that line they were fitted with 238hp Rolls Royce engines. By this time in the early 1970s, they had become just common-user units in the Pennine area. Keywords: Digital, Rights Managed, Stock
LPPC DSL CO 00010014-Edit Class 45 89 (recently D89 and later 45006) awaits departure to the south with a service to London St Pancras. Someone has made a half-hearted attempt to obliterate the ‘D’ as if that was going to convince the travelling public thiss was a bright, new, modernised railway. On the far side of the station, another Class 45 (98 and later 45059) waits to head south with possibly a cross-country service to the South West, or a service from Leeds to St Pancras. Both split-headcode box machines were condemned in 1986, after 25 years of service. Keywords: Digital, Rights Managed, Stock
LPPC DSL BW 0940 Sulzer Class 25 D7601 (renumbered 25251 under TOPS in April, 1974) rests at Sheffield Midland station some time in the early 1970s. Still in BR Green it looks a little forlorn in its shabby condition, yet doesn’t seem out of place. The Class 104 DMU was based at Hull Botanical Gardens at this time, and is too waiting for its next turn. The two spotters are walking down the platform taking notes and seem oblivious to the immediate “danger” they are in due to the unattended trestle ladders ahead of them...... can you imagine the uproar today? The Joseph Rodgers Cutlery Pond Street Works in the background was closed in 1968, but the building remained until 1984 before being demolished for a bus station. Late Summer 1973.
LPPC DSL BW 0939 Sheffield Midland station looking from Platform 6 towards the main entrance. The closest DMU is stabled in the tracks between Platform 5 and Platform 4, which are still used today for the same purpose. Another BR Derby Class 105 sits in one of the northbound bay platforms alongside a Class 104 originally a Calder Valley unit as they were built with more power specifically for that line. The Mk2 coaching stock on Platform 1 looks to be from a terminated service from London St Pancras.
LPPC DSL CO 0006-Edit In the early 1970s it was still quite common to see loco-hauled trains of Mark One stock, in particular in northern areas during the summer holiday period timetable, when extra, dated, services were in the public timetables. Here a Brush Type 2 Class 31 number 5819 (later 31287) has arrived at Sheffield possibly from Cleethorpes, or another town on the East Coast, whilst the Cross Country DMU in the background is providing one of the area’s day-in, day-out more local services. The locomotive was allocated to nearby Tinsley shed, until its move north to Gateshead in May 1974. The DMU is probably not a cross-country, but a local service to Manchester Piccadilly along the Hope Valley route via the 3½ mile Totley Tunnel and Chinley. Keywords: Digital, Rights Managed, Stock

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