Image Archive 2
A trio of 3 locales, Attercliffe East, Carbrook & Templeborough, to see what's going on - 1718
* PART TWO. Templeborough, Ickles Viaduct
It was hard to get the full set in along the viaduct and this was only achieved at the expense of having the lead units partially hidden by tree growth at the side of the line, something which later in the year would have meant no visibility at all. DB Cargo class 66s hurtle along 25 minutes late with 66079 leading and 66183, 66125, 66054 and 66108 following on the 0R03, Nuneaton to Doncaster Belmont Down Yard working. This must be another of those unique views here, seeing this number of locos together, though the GBRf delivery from Canada a few years ago, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/14640780614/
would have been equally as impressive but without the backdrop of the Biomass Works. Apparently this facility has a 1MW output which, for the effort in construction and 'stuff' needed to run it, doesn't seem to be all that great an output especially when compared to E.on's facility at Tinsley which is 30MW and supplies enough power for 40,000 homes, and cost 120million pounds. As it was E.on who finally demolished the two iconic Tinsley cooling towers on 25th August, 2008, they have stated that-
'...E.on said it would establish a community benefits fund worth up to £25,000 a year to support local projects throughout the lifetime of the plant. It also said it was working with Sheffield City Council on a public arts competition, with the company committing £500,000 to a project to create a permanent art work for the area...'
Not sure what progress has been made with this but apart from the look of their building, there isn't any Artwork to be seen from the M1 or further afield, such as that ascribed by some to the 'Twin Towers' of the old Blackburn Meadows power station. I may be being an** about this but I wonder who, in the past, thought it a good idea to renumber the arches on the Ickles Viaduct. The original numbers ran from 1 to 7 with 1 being the Sheffield Road bridge and 7 the last arch before the River Don; the remaining ones being un-numbered. Then at some stage in the past, some wag deemed it appropriate to paint out this sequence and increase the numbers by 2, making the first arch 4 and the last one, before the river, 9 and seen in this picture, at the time it was done, one would have thought nobody would have cared anymore... a picture from the past, without any numbering sequence on the arches, can be seen here in the centre of the 3 images shown here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/14936091416/
Also visible in this shot, thankfully, on the far right of the picture on the Midland line, is the large Masbrough South Junction signal gantry controlling moves along the quadruple lines north and south, the many sidings and the lines to Holmes Junction across the large Masbrough South Curve bridge over the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation; the large Midland signal box is also visible, to the gantry's left and the old Firth-Rixon building ends, poke into the picture at top left. How things used to be eh...
A trio of 3 locales, Attercliffe East, Carbrook & Templeborough, to see what's going on - 1718
* PART TWO. Templeborough, Ickles Viaduct
It was hard to get the full set in along the viaduct and this was only achieved at the expense of having the lead units partially hidden by tree growth at the side of the line, something which later in the year would have meant no visibility at all. DB Cargo class 66s hurtle along 25 minutes late with 66079 leading and 66183, 66125, 66054 and 66108 following on the 0R03, Nuneaton to Doncaster Belmont Down Yard working. This must be another of those unique views here, seeing this number of locos together, though the GBRf delivery from Canada a few years ago, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/14640780614/
would have been equally as impressive but without the backdrop of the Biomass Works. Apparently this facility has a 1MW output which, for the effort in construction and 'stuff' needed to run it, doesn't seem to be all that great an output especially when compared to E.on's facility at Tinsley which is 30MW and supplies enough power for 40,000 homes, and cost 120million pounds. As it was E.on who finally demolished the two iconic Tinsley cooling towers on 25th August, 2008, they have stated that-
'...E.on said it would establish a community benefits fund worth up to £25,000 a year to support local projects throughout the lifetime of the plant. It also said it was working with Sheffield City Council on a public arts competition, with the company committing £500,000 to a project to create a permanent art work for the area...'
Not sure what progress has been made with this but apart from the look of their building, there isn't any Artwork to be seen from the M1 or further afield, such as that ascribed by some to the 'Twin Towers' of the old Blackburn Meadows power station. I may be being an** about this but I wonder who, in the past, thought it a good idea to renumber the arches on the Ickles Viaduct. The original numbers ran from 1 to 7 with 1 being the Sheffield Road bridge and 7 the last arch before the River Don; the remaining ones being un-numbered. Then at some stage in the past, some wag deemed it appropriate to paint out this sequence and increase the numbers by 2, making the first arch 4 and the last one, before the river, 9 and seen in this picture, at the time it was done, one would have thought nobody would have cared anymore... a picture from the past, without any numbering sequence on the arches, can be seen here in the centre of the 3 images shown here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/14936091416/
Also visible in this shot, thankfully, on the far right of the picture on the Midland line, is the large Masbrough South Junction signal gantry controlling moves along the quadruple lines north and south, the many sidings and the lines to Holmes Junction across the large Masbrough South Curve bridge over the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation; the large Midland signal box is also visible, to the gantry's left and the old Firth-Rixon building ends, poke into the picture at top left. How things used to be eh...