Image Archive 2
Colas 60 Retrieval of cripple wagon from Sheffield Midland Station - 0739
The main reason for coming here at all was to grab some of shots of this set parked on the Midland's US1, Up Slow number 1, line, the wagons having been left there a few weeks ago due to a problem with a significant wheel flat on a wagon which was subsequently slowly transported, at 5m.p.h., to Tinsley Yard, very early this morning by the Colas 60. As I recall one of the south-bound cement empties was having trouble a few weeks ago with one of its wagons and it ended up being hauled, along with two of its neighbours, back to the station where they were parked up on US1 awaiting a solution to the problem; this sort of made the station look like it used to I expect, with freight wagons parked between the main running lines. Colas class 60, 60095 came up from the Toton T.M.D., yesterday, Thursday lunchtime on the 0Z60 move and hitched up to the north-end facing rake of 3 wagons, the 'cripple unit' with one of the rake of originals at either side and the driver got out and left the set on US1. Nothing happened until the early hours of today, Friday the 6th, when at 03:41, 11 minutes late, 8xxx, i.e. 8Z60, set off from US1 with the Colas 60 in charge and the lot headed off for Nunnery and Woodburn Junction, destination the last remaining sidings at Tinsley Yard. It appears that for safety, the move progressed at 5m.p.h.. the 8 in the headcode indicating a move restricted to a maximum of 35m.p.h., which is why it didn't go during the day at a time more convenient for the photographers! It took 65 minutes to travel the 7.5km from the station to the north-eastern side of the yard where the last remaining sidings are to be found in the area now chiefly occupied by the Amey Stone processing facility and the two huge aircraft-hangar like Marks & Spencer Distribution buildings. Having arrived at 04:35 and manoeuvred to drop off the central, 'cripple' wagon, the two remaining wagons were taken back to Sheffield, an hour later at 05:25 and arrived back on the US1 line in Sheffield at 05:43, 18 minutes later, a much shorter time now being taken to cover the 7.5km, the headcode, 6Z60, indicating the set could travel up to 60m.p.h. And so, after the early morning run up to Tinsley and back, this is how the scene looked when I arrived at lunchtime Friday with Colas 60095 and the two 'Ermewa Rental', JGA cement wagons sat on US1, with not much indication that anything was to happen; which was unfortunate, because a little later in the afternoon, it did! On the right, pulling away from platform 2, after its brief station stop is East Midlands Trains class 222, 222018, on the 1C42, Sheffield to St. Pancras High Level, express passenger service. In the background a Northern Rail class 158 DMU, 158850, with 'We are Fearless' on the side panels is awaiting its next service out of the station. Beyond that, as it is now 10 minutes to midday, the class 66 Freightliner, 66619, 'Derek W. Johnson MBE, has now been given the right-away, on the continuing 6E08, Hope(Earles Sidings) to West Burton Power Station, working.
Colas 60 Retrieval of cripple wagon from Sheffield Midland Station - 0739
The main reason for coming here at all was to grab some of shots of this set parked on the Midland's US1, Up Slow number 1, line, the wagons having been left there a few weeks ago due to a problem with a significant wheel flat on a wagon which was subsequently slowly transported, at 5m.p.h., to Tinsley Yard, very early this morning by the Colas 60. As I recall one of the south-bound cement empties was having trouble a few weeks ago with one of its wagons and it ended up being hauled, along with two of its neighbours, back to the station where they were parked up on US1 awaiting a solution to the problem; this sort of made the station look like it used to I expect, with freight wagons parked between the main running lines. Colas class 60, 60095 came up from the Toton T.M.D., yesterday, Thursday lunchtime on the 0Z60 move and hitched up to the north-end facing rake of 3 wagons, the 'cripple unit' with one of the rake of originals at either side and the driver got out and left the set on US1. Nothing happened until the early hours of today, Friday the 6th, when at 03:41, 11 minutes late, 8xxx, i.e. 8Z60, set off from US1 with the Colas 60 in charge and the lot headed off for Nunnery and Woodburn Junction, destination the last remaining sidings at Tinsley Yard. It appears that for safety, the move progressed at 5m.p.h.. the 8 in the headcode indicating a move restricted to a maximum of 35m.p.h., which is why it didn't go during the day at a time more convenient for the photographers! It took 65 minutes to travel the 7.5km from the station to the north-eastern side of the yard where the last remaining sidings are to be found in the area now chiefly occupied by the Amey Stone processing facility and the two huge aircraft-hangar like Marks & Spencer Distribution buildings. Having arrived at 04:35 and manoeuvred to drop off the central, 'cripple' wagon, the two remaining wagons were taken back to Sheffield, an hour later at 05:25 and arrived back on the US1 line in Sheffield at 05:43, 18 minutes later, a much shorter time now being taken to cover the 7.5km, the headcode, 6Z60, indicating the set could travel up to 60m.p.h. And so, after the early morning run up to Tinsley and back, this is how the scene looked when I arrived at lunchtime Friday with Colas 60095 and the two 'Ermewa Rental', JGA cement wagons sat on US1, with not much indication that anything was to happen; which was unfortunate, because a little later in the afternoon, it did! On the right, pulling away from platform 2, after its brief station stop is East Midlands Trains class 222, 222018, on the 1C42, Sheffield to St. Pancras High Level, express passenger service. In the background a Northern Rail class 158 DMU, 158850, with 'We are Fearless' on the side panels is awaiting its next service out of the station. Beyond that, as it is now 10 minutes to midday, the class 66 Freightliner, 66619, 'Derek W. Johnson MBE, has now been given the right-away, on the continuing 6E08, Hope(Earles Sidings) to West Burton Power Station, working.