Image Archive 2
Colas 60 Retrieval of cripple wagon from Sheffield Midland Station - 0746+749+763+765
* Views around the Station
In the first of the 'Views around the Station', at top left, this one includes a close up if the two wagons which accompanied the 'cripple' now deposited, maybe forever, at Tinsley Yard on one of the sidings next to the M&S buildings. The grey, 'Ermewa' JGA cement wagons look almost new so maybe the one with the bad wheel flat, left at Tinsley Yard, will be fixed and transported back via road haulier or, like today a single light engine move from Toton. A telling picture at top right as a distinct split is seen between far left/right and centre; the two women at the extremities are doing what I often do, just staring into the distance hoping for imaginative insight, whilst the slightly younger set in the centre are all paying attention to their gizmos, phones and music. 'We are Fearless' proclaims the Northern Rail DMU behind them and this is another shot of the unit seen earlier on platform 5A, behind the Colas working, class 158, 158850. Just before this photograph was taken, another class 158 unit, 158784, was parked up in platform 3B in front of these passengers, 158784 is a named unit, 'Barbara Castle' and also has the 'We are Fearless' logo on the side, which in her case is quite correct; I suspect maybe only one of them, if that, would have known who Barbara Castle once was though. At lower right another 'celebrity' (Yuk) appears in the station and subsequently causes a bit of 'mayhem'. Having passed along platform 1 to the far south end, it stood with doors open and waited for what should have been a 12:14 departure, this was to be the 2N24, Sheffield to Leeds service with Northern Rail's 'white heat of technology' class 144, 144012, 'Evolution' in charge, but this didn't happen. Someone at the far end of the unit is looking wistfully in the direction of the old Sheffield P.S.B. building, from where the drivers usually emanate from, but nothing is happening. At lower right, another East Midlands Trains class 222, 222022, pulled into the south end of platform 2, 2B, a few minutes ago and disgorged its passengers, on the 1F17, St. Pancras High Level to Sheffield Midland service and was 13 minutes late arriving. A few minutes later, the EMT set went off along the platform, seen in this picture, heading for Woodburn Junction as an Empty Coaching Stock set, 5C47, running from Platform 2B and coming back in around 25 minutes, to Platform 6A, 4 minutes late. Here, at 13:10 it departed on the now 21 minute late, 1C47, Sheffield Midland to St. Pancras High Level service. I am not sure why the platform change is necessary, time-tabling I guess; the driver of course only having to walk from one end of the train to the other for the reversal process at Woodburn.
Colas 60 Retrieval of cripple wagon from Sheffield Midland Station - 0746+749+763+765
* Views around the Station
In the first of the 'Views around the Station', at top left, this one includes a close up if the two wagons which accompanied the 'cripple' now deposited, maybe forever, at Tinsley Yard on one of the sidings next to the M&S buildings. The grey, 'Ermewa' JGA cement wagons look almost new so maybe the one with the bad wheel flat, left at Tinsley Yard, will be fixed and transported back via road haulier or, like today a single light engine move from Toton. A telling picture at top right as a distinct split is seen between far left/right and centre; the two women at the extremities are doing what I often do, just staring into the distance hoping for imaginative insight, whilst the slightly younger set in the centre are all paying attention to their gizmos, phones and music. 'We are Fearless' proclaims the Northern Rail DMU behind them and this is another shot of the unit seen earlier on platform 5A, behind the Colas working, class 158, 158850. Just before this photograph was taken, another class 158 unit, 158784, was parked up in platform 3B in front of these passengers, 158784 is a named unit, 'Barbara Castle' and also has the 'We are Fearless' logo on the side, which in her case is quite correct; I suspect maybe only one of them, if that, would have known who Barbara Castle once was though. At lower right another 'celebrity' (Yuk) appears in the station and subsequently causes a bit of 'mayhem'. Having passed along platform 1 to the far south end, it stood with doors open and waited for what should have been a 12:14 departure, this was to be the 2N24, Sheffield to Leeds service with Northern Rail's 'white heat of technology' class 144, 144012, 'Evolution' in charge, but this didn't happen. Someone at the far end of the unit is looking wistfully in the direction of the old Sheffield P.S.B. building, from where the drivers usually emanate from, but nothing is happening. At lower right, another East Midlands Trains class 222, 222022, pulled into the south end of platform 2, 2B, a few minutes ago and disgorged its passengers, on the 1F17, St. Pancras High Level to Sheffield Midland service and was 13 minutes late arriving. A few minutes later, the EMT set went off along the platform, seen in this picture, heading for Woodburn Junction as an Empty Coaching Stock set, 5C47, running from Platform 2B and coming back in around 25 minutes, to Platform 6A, 4 minutes late. Here, at 13:10 it departed on the now 21 minute late, 1C47, Sheffield Midland to St. Pancras High Level service. I am not sure why the platform change is necessary, time-tabling I guess; the driver of course only having to walk from one end of the train to the other for the reversal process at Woodburn.