Scunthorpe Buses - Past & Present
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Out looking for the northern lights (which didn't show) I took a long exposure of a passing car with the rising Moon in the background. Taken with NightCap. Light Trails mode, 5.21 second exposure, 1/3s shutter speed.
60006 'Scunthorpe Ironmaster' heading East at Melton Ross with Ore empties on Thurs 27th August 1998.
100ASA slide scan.
Deep within the steelworks complex at Scunthorpe taken from the back of a guards van on the high level section of the works rail network.
It was as industrial a photo as you could take with the steam from one of the 3 blast furnaces rising in the background.
The industrial loco number 5 seldom leaves the high level lines.
During the summer I spent an evening alongside the North Lincolnshire Main line somewhere between Scunthorpe and Doncaster, just as the sun sets I caught 60092 heading into the setting sun with a steel train for Teesside.
60092 6N73 20:35 Scunthorpe to Lackenby
This shot featured in this YouTube Video, youtu.be/XbGKKpkTWuw
13th July 2022
A pair of class 20's nos. 20044 & 20025 pass through Scunthorpe with a steel train on 31st August 1988.
It's that time of the year, the daffodils are almost gone, the pink blossom is on the trees and in the woodlands of the UK - the bluebells are out in their millions.
One of only two Knottingly based class 47s fitted for multiple slow speed working, the other being 47371. Seen hear a little weather worn at Froddingham depot.
22.10.2021.
GBRf liveried Class 66 No 66795 takes the avoiding line round Scunthorpe station with 6E57, the 04.10 Renwick Road Biffa - Scunthorpe Roxby Gullett loaded waste.
Bombus terrestris, the Buff-tailed Bumblebee or Large Earth Bumblebee, is one of the most numerous bumblebee species and is one of the main species used in greenhouse pollination. The queen is monandrous which means she mates with only one male. B. terrestris workers learn flower colours and forage efficiently.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Bombus
Subgenus: Bombus
Species: B. terrestris
Common Name: Buff-tailed Bumblebee
As the clouds started to break up we were treated to a wonderful view of the northern lights here in north west Lincolnshire. Standing over my usual vantage point of the M181 motorway just outside Scunthorpe - this view gives me the traffic trails on my long exposure photos - and it's only a minutes drive from my house...
This was the best display of the aurora from my town for a very long time. Recent sightings have been rather faint or totally blocked out by clouds. On this instance, all came together nicely.
60015 passes Little Fenton with 6D11, 15.00 Tees Yard to Scunthorpe Entrance C.
Taken a little early to showcase the fantastic blackthorn bush next to the Up Normanton line.
EWS retro repaint 56006 arrives at Scunthorpe to run round 7C75 10.44 Immingham-Scunthorpe loaded MGR on 10/10/03, during its final weeks in traffic, being withdrawn on 1st December 2003.
After the National Railway Museum turned down the offer by EWS for this historic loco (the first class 56 in traffic) it survived long enough to enter preservation with the Class 56 Group in 2012.
PENTAX 67, PENTAX SMC 105mm, Fujichrome PROVIA 100F
This Willowbrook bodied Leyland Leopard is seen in the gloom of Scunthorpe bus station. Some people say the best way to see Scunny is in the dark ... I say the best way to see it is in the rear-view mirror.
With only a few months left in service, 56104 gets away from Scunthorpe's Trent Yard with the 6M07 Roxby to Pendleton Bins
October 2003
Scunthorpe - GBRF 66785 works 4R79 Doncaster Down Decoy - Immingham with a rake of empty coal wagons, destined to be loaded at the docks.
Arriving at the Reception Sidings for the unloding facility is 56112 on 7G06, 12.04 Immingham - Scunthorpe coal, 17.10.96.
In the background another 56 in this fabulous livery can be seen on the tioxide containers.
The original 32t mgr hoppers seen here in profusion are of course now long gone.
66550 runs round empty tipplers to form the 6K21 08.20 Scunthorpe Ore Plant to Immingham Dock empties on the last day of Freightliner operating these services - DB resumed on March 15th 2020.
Above the wagons are the cooling towers of the on site power station, above the loco are the blast furnaces.
66550 departs the Iron Ore unloading facility within Scunthorpe Steelworks. She will be heading back to immingham docks for the next load.
It was a wet miserable March morning which dampened the spirit. The going was hard through mud, water brambles and more mud. I frequently told myself "you are too old for this" and " its only a Class 66". Even after taking the shot I wasn't convinced I had got a decent shot in the bag.
It wasn't until I got home and started the editing process that the shot revealed itself. The grey wetness of the day coupled with the industrial back drop and foreground works well IMHO.
Hope you agree.
This is Church Lane, Scunthorpe after the snow on the last day of February 2018. This is just after noon and I was on a mission to get some snow photos - for the first winter in many years - before I had to head off to work later in the afternoon.
22.10.2021.
DRS liveried Class 66 No's 66426 and 66423 work 3S14, the Grimsby - York Thrall RHTT.
Seen here approaching Scunthorpe station.
After watching loaded Ore arrive at Scunthorpe Steelworks, I thought I had plenty of time to find an interesting composition for the empty departure, not this time though.
After a quick turnaround and only 20 minutes after arrival 66525 gets underway 25 minutes early with the returning empties back to Immingham.
66525 running as 6K27 18:42 Scunthorpe Ore Terminal - Immingham.
10th July 2019
East Midland's Cancer Vyking is no more. Scunthorpe's 16917 FX05GXP seen entering Messingham this evening after a short 103 to Kirton Lindsey seen wearing full swoops for the first time in it's life.
Photo taken 13/07/15
22.10.2021.
DB Cargo Class 66 No 66130 creeps round the bend with 6D61, the Roxby - Rossington empties.
Like many others, I went to Scunthorpe for the 20s, which turned back at Barnetby. However, I had a good session, with quite a bit of freight. Here we see 66130 on the 6D61 Roxby-Rossington, 22.10.21.
With clouds hanging over the future of Steelmaking in Scunthorpe, I thought it was time I spent a day in North Lincolnshire exploring the industrial activity.
Set against the fantastic backdrop of the Blast Furnaces (it's only fantastic if you like this sort of thing, probably an eyesore to others), Freightliner 66525 runs down the Scunthorpe Foreign Ore Branch with another load of Ore, working 6T27 the 16:58 Immingham - Scunthorpe Ore Plant.
17:43 10th July 2019.