Andy Wills.
76021 WOODHEAD..... 40 YEARS AGO !
40 years ago today a friend and I caught the then X48 Sheffield to Manchester bus to Woodhead in the hope of catching some Class 76 action in the couple of hours we were going to be there before the bus would return to Sheffield. As it turned out, the weather was very grey and miserable (unlike today) and we only saw One West bound train before it was time to 'leggit' up to the road for the bus home. But, just before 8 p.m as we waited, we were rewarded with an East bound empty MGR climbing towards the Tunnel - 76021 working solo with a string of 26 HAA hoppers, bound for Wath ? who knows.
So armed with only with Dads old Agfa camera with a maximum shutter speed of 1/200th sec is my record shot taken from the roadside on 13th July 1981.
This was to be the last working I photographed, with the line closing Four days later....
76021 WOODHEAD..... 40 YEARS AGO !
40 years ago today a friend and I caught the then X48 Sheffield to Manchester bus to Woodhead in the hope of catching some Class 76 action in the couple of hours we were going to be there before the bus would return to Sheffield. As it turned out, the weather was very grey and miserable (unlike today) and we only saw One West bound train before it was time to 'leggit' up to the road for the bus home. But, just before 8 p.m as we waited, we were rewarded with an East bound empty MGR climbing towards the Tunnel - 76021 working solo with a string of 26 HAA hoppers, bound for Wath ? who knows.
So armed with only with Dads old Agfa camera with a maximum shutter speed of 1/200th sec is my record shot taken from the roadside on 13th July 1981.
This was to be the last working I photographed, with the line closing Four days later....