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Bardon Aggregates returns and Volker Track Machine at Nunnery - 8259/64
Uncertain weather, as can be discerned from the clouds seen here, meant no hanging about was in order and the passage of the GBRf down the grade slowed, very slowly so there was no chance of getting the shot of the track unit on the grade up from Sheffield. And later I realised that I have in fact taken a shot of one of these units here before, almost exactly 4 years ago to the day it turns out, May 3rd 2011, when a similar unit came along here but instead of heading into Sheffield, it took the junction at Woodburn and went onto the single track branch-line up towards Stocksbridge, so I guess all is not lost! Today the star is GBRf liveried class 66, 66761 and this is the return aggregates train from Tinsley heading today for Coton Hill quarry on the 6Z32 working. Having left Tinsley Yard just 10 minutes earlier at 10:51 with its 600 tonne train, it is about to halt and wait passage through Sheffield Midland before heading off south to the Shrewsbury area, arriving 15:40 this afternoon. Heavy cloud hanging over the Capita building portends what's to come and the Capita building marks the end of the Sheffield Parkway (A57) with its slate-blue office building at Park Square; the area between there and here was taken up by the Nunnery Colliery, of which more in the next picture, along with a great deal of other 'traditional industry' at either side of a very complex railway layout; most of this has now been built over by the Sheffield Parkway. Capita proclaims that 'We are the UK's leading provider of business process outsourcing and integrated professional support service solutions', so in case you didn't know, they don't make the best cutlery in the world, or any cutlery for that matter! On the left of the picture is a remnant of part of the rail infra-structure here in the form on an old LMS signal-post and the Nunnery Single Line Junction signalbox was just this side of the signal where the small bush is located now. In front of the signal post is the track-bed over the road bridge which used to carry lines, behind the camera, into the LMSR carriage sidings and the Nunnery Colliery branch into the colliery works. This is another part of the complex of lines either side of the main, and once electrified, lines heading east through Darnall, its shed and on to both Lincoln and to the south via the GC's 'London Extension' which have now all been displaced by modern industry and roads. On the right, the GBRf is passing the front of the Veolia Environmental Services buildings which is the outfit which took over from the Sheffield Corporation's Refuse Recycler which used to be rail connected from the Midland Main line which passes just the other side of their installation. It was accessed just to the south-west (towards Sheffield Midland station) of the old Attercliffe Road station on Leveson St.; both that rail access and the station are long gone.
Bardon Aggregates returns and Volker Track Machine at Nunnery - 8259/64
Uncertain weather, as can be discerned from the clouds seen here, meant no hanging about was in order and the passage of the GBRf down the grade slowed, very slowly so there was no chance of getting the shot of the track unit on the grade up from Sheffield. And later I realised that I have in fact taken a shot of one of these units here before, almost exactly 4 years ago to the day it turns out, May 3rd 2011, when a similar unit came along here but instead of heading into Sheffield, it took the junction at Woodburn and went onto the single track branch-line up towards Stocksbridge, so I guess all is not lost! Today the star is GBRf liveried class 66, 66761 and this is the return aggregates train from Tinsley heading today for Coton Hill quarry on the 6Z32 working. Having left Tinsley Yard just 10 minutes earlier at 10:51 with its 600 tonne train, it is about to halt and wait passage through Sheffield Midland before heading off south to the Shrewsbury area, arriving 15:40 this afternoon. Heavy cloud hanging over the Capita building portends what's to come and the Capita building marks the end of the Sheffield Parkway (A57) with its slate-blue office building at Park Square; the area between there and here was taken up by the Nunnery Colliery, of which more in the next picture, along with a great deal of other 'traditional industry' at either side of a very complex railway layout; most of this has now been built over by the Sheffield Parkway. Capita proclaims that 'We are the UK's leading provider of business process outsourcing and integrated professional support service solutions', so in case you didn't know, they don't make the best cutlery in the world, or any cutlery for that matter! On the left of the picture is a remnant of part of the rail infra-structure here in the form on an old LMS signal-post and the Nunnery Single Line Junction signalbox was just this side of the signal where the small bush is located now. In front of the signal post is the track-bed over the road bridge which used to carry lines, behind the camera, into the LMSR carriage sidings and the Nunnery Colliery branch into the colliery works. This is another part of the complex of lines either side of the main, and once electrified, lines heading east through Darnall, its shed and on to both Lincoln and to the south via the GC's 'London Extension' which have now all been displaced by modern industry and roads. On the right, the GBRf is passing the front of the Veolia Environmental Services buildings which is the outfit which took over from the Sheffield Corporation's Refuse Recycler which used to be rail connected from the Midland Main line which passes just the other side of their installation. It was accessed just to the south-west (towards Sheffield Midland station) of the old Attercliffe Road station on Leveson St.; both that rail access and the station are long gone.