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50049 on the rear of 5Q68 ,Worksop - Derby Litchurch Lane with 56098 leading the way & 701021 in the middle 05/04/23
Bristol RELL6G - ECW B44D .
New to this Operator during July-1970 .
Running through Sutton-in-Ashfield , Derbyshire , on Route C1 to Mansfield .
December-1973
Then the sun came out, and the Maun Reliance returned to Crich, so I had to take advantage of this match-up and get a nicely posed shot !
None of these LCBS Reliances joined Stagecoach, and this one passed to Shaftesbury and District at the end of 1990, doing another couple of years of rural services down there.
Town End, Crich, 5/5/88
37601 passes Kingsmill Reservoir while working 5M58, Worksop - Derby RTC with 37608 on the rear 08/03/23
After falling down the stairs on Monday 15th April, it would appear that I have broken a bone in my foot, so I will be incapacitated for a while, today at Kings Mill hospital I saw the consultant who informed me that the bone I have broken and the place I have broken it means I will be off work for a long time, that particular bone is renowned for being a bugger to heal, oh dear, no bus driving for me for a bit then!!
After having a temporary plaster put on my leg on Monday, I was given a proper one today, I was given a choice of colours and opted for purple, doesn't it look pretty!!
Nottingham bound, DMU 156408 departing Mansfield for its next stop, Sutton Park.
All around summer abounds and nature thrives, but there's something sad about the scene to my eyes.
Despite the distant modernised station and tele-coms mast, it has an air of a Britain long lost, the feel of the industrial Britain I once knew and loved, and here I still sense its lingering presence.
Just occasionally I come by such locations that when the conditions are right, I am overwhelmed and whisked back to another time, no matter how fleeting.
17th July 2018.
MCW Metroliners started to appear with independent operators in early 1990, as former NBC and SBG operators started to dispose of them after an average 5-6 year high-mileage life - at least for those that hadn't been incinerated !
Northern Bus at Anston were one of the early buyers, and their livery provided a refreshing colour change from the monotony of NX white. 899 DXV was formerly B233 XEU, one of a pair acquired from Wessex National. They didn't last particularly long here, and had gone within a year, along with a former Eastern Scottish one.
York racecourse, 14 July 1990
From a 1950 publication on British Commercial Vehicles some examples of those often ignored but very necessary vehicles that help service our communities. This page has examples of gully and cesspool emptiers manufactured by a variety of chassi builders and various of the specialist body and equipment manufturers.
Karrier are again shown, the name by this date being associated with such specialist vehicles as the trolleybus division and name had passed to Guy Motors, and this is an example of the Karrier-Yorkshire gully emptier as delivered to the Lancashire municipality of the the County Borough of Bolton. Market Bosworth Rural District Council's Dennis cesspool emptier is shown as is a Thornycroft-Eagle gully emptier for another UK council, that of the Sutton in Ashfield Urban District Council.
Two other vehicles are shown being for export markets. An Eagle emptier on a Bedford Motors chassis was destined for Cyprus and a Bedford chassis was also used for the equipment delivered to the Borough Council fo San Fernando, Trinidad.
A trentbarton evening service 9.1 to Alfreton stands at Sutton in Ashfield bus station on Saturday 22-11-14 with Optare Solo 474 FJ09 MVY and Ken in charge.
221142 on the rear of 8Q60, Worksop - Barton Under Needwood Carriage Maintenance Depot (Central Rivers) 37601 leads the way, passing Kingsmill Reservoir 22/06/23
Once in Matlock, I wanted to sample the routes to Crich that had been won on tender by Maun Coaches, but I was also hoping that something other than their trio of new Optare StarRiders might be out on one of the duties - and bingo ! The first trip to arrive in town was being operated by one of five former London Country Reliances that joined the fleet in the late 1980s. So here is TPD 30S about to cross the Derwent Bridge, in the days before the Derwent Way by-pass had completely changed the background.
Snitterton Road, Matlock, 5/5/88
The park is mainly comprised of grassed areas with areas of woodland and avenues of trees. The lake is located in the south east of the park, and is well used by anglers and walkers. Rumbles café is located to the west of the site and is located close to the play areas, a skate park, ball court and outdoor gym. The site also has bowling and tennis clubs.
The Lawn Pleasure Grounds encompass the grounds of the former Sutton Hall, built as the residence of Samuel Unwin, a merchant hosier, and the land associated with his nearby Cotton Spinning Mill and Mill Lake. Sutton Hall and most of the Mill complex no longer exist, but the Mill ruins and adjacent lake form the focal feature of the park today.
Coxmoor Golf Course
Sutton in Ashfield
Nottinghamshire
UK
22 October 2018
Autumn fungus on the golf course. Very colourful but you wouldn't want this on your breakfast plate.
Trentbarton Black Cat service heads along Station Road Sutton in Ashfield on 04-08-14 with Optare Tempo 311 YJ07 VSF in charge.
56081 passing through Sutton Parkway on the rear of 5Q11, Derby Litchurch Lane - Worksop with 701511 and 47749 leading the way 28/1/22
I tried to take a shot of tonight's full moon with little success. Then I remembered taking a shot on Saturday afternoon that seemed ok in camera. So, here it is with the colour punched a bit for dramatic effect.
NO GROUP INVITES PLEASE, except Venus and Jupiter in conjunction would be nice.
I first visited this box on 18 January 1966. It was the only box I went in that day, see my "boxes visited" log
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Dates:
1 November 1875 - A box already existed here named Sutton Station.
Unknown date - Renamed Sutton Junction Station.
24 April 1893 - Renamed Sutton Junction North. A drawing of the 1897 layout is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52503398414/in/album-...
18 September 1910 - New box (this).
xx-xx-1925 - Down Outer Home (at south end of platform) removed.
A photo of a 1936 box diagram is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52490858700/in/album-...
A photo of a 1946 track diagram, from my collection of original Track Diagrams, can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52490387456/in/album-...
28 February 1960 - South box closed - Ground frame provided, key release from this box. This box was renamed Sutton Junction Station.
A drawing of the 1966 layout is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52489903602/in/album-...
10 December 1967 - Sutton Forest Crossing box closed - Automatic Half Barriers (AHB) provided, supervised from here. Illingworth's Siding GF provided released by 6. Signal 12 abolished and crossover along with South GF secured "Emergency use only". The crossover at Sutton Junction was inside the strike-in area for Sutton Forest LC, therefore movements towards that LC via the crossover may not activate the LC equipment in sufficient time for safe operation. If a movement over the crossover was required (i.e. for engineering work) Sutton Forest LC would need to be manned and operated manually using the Local Control Unit (LCU), under the instruction of the Sutton Junction Signalman.
xx December 1968 - Secured crossover and South GF removed.
2 April 1972 - new Kirkby Deviation line brought into use and Sutton Junction Station box now working to the new signal box "Kirkby Summit". A drawing of the layout is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52503677373/in/album-...
28 May 1978 - the level crossing gates were replaced by Manually Controlled Barriers. The layout drawing is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52503677373/in/album-...
and the Weekly Operating Notice starts here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52503398364/in/album-...
Before or during 1985 - Stokes, Taylor & Shaw siding points out. A drawing of the 1987 layout is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52503600395/in/album-...
24 January 1988 - Sherwood Colliery Sidings South box closed, 2 GF's (North & South) provided released by 6 (North) and 7 (South). Signals 9 and 11 abolished. A drawing of the 1988 layout is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52503128436/in/album-...
15 January 1995 - Both Sherwood GF's were abolished (over 2 years after the pit had closed). However the notices covering this work are a bit confusing but I think it is safe to say "early 1995"!
The notice dated 14 to 20 January 1995 is starts here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52490054207/in/album-...
and the notice dated 1 to 7 April 1995 is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52490540166/in/album-...
Explanatory notes from Peter Churchman are included as text for those two notices.
On the subject of the Sherwood South GF there is another debate as to why that GF was only released by Sutton - in other places it would have been a joint release by Shirebrook Sidings box but by this time that was the garden shed ground frame and not always open??
Between 2 September & 11 September 1995 work was carried out to decommission the box as part of Kirkby Summit re-signalling. The Weekly Operating Notice for that starts here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52503128406/in/album-...
24 September 1995 - Box reduced in status to "Crossing Keepers Shelter" (because CCTV from Kirkby Summit not operative yet). The box had no signalling controls so it is assumed that trains were talked by red signals either side and then flagged across the crossing.
29 October 1995 - CCTV at crossing commissioned, box abolished.
12 September 2011 - Signalling and level crossing recontrolled from Mansfield Workstation at the East Midlands Control Centre.
Before leaving the history it's worth looking at the "Sutton Jnc" Ground Frame, shown on the Down line on my diagram and released by key.
This was actually where the branch to Sutton-in-Ashfield Town went off (known as the "Penny Emma"). This line was 3/4 mile long and opened on 1 May 1893. It certainly brought the Midland Railway within the town of Sutton-in-Ashfield. However it had a chequered life with the passenger services being withdrawn (wd) and then re-instated (rei) a couple of times (1917 wd 1923 rei, May 1926 wd Sep 1926 rei). Finally, the passenger service was withdrawn 26 September 1949 with the rest of the traffic withdrawn 1 October 1951.
The junction was controlled by Sutton Junction South box. That opened in 1892, for the ‘new’ branch, it originally housed a 28 lever Midland (tumbler) frame.
There's the 1903 Board of Trade Sketch for Sutton Junction South here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52490387351/in/album-...
and the locking is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52490858500/in/album-...
A great 1906 photo of the box and the junction is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52489903607/in/album-...
John Gough ("The Midland Railway A Chronology") records the box as being re-framed in 1924, so this explains a later rear frame. This must have been at 4 ½” centres, otherwise it wouldn’t have fitted in the box! However, by 1924 the REC tappet was the standard frame anyway.
There's a Board of Trade inspection sketch 28 May 1925 here
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and the locking is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52577272403/in/album-...
I believe the South Junction box closed 28 February 1960 and then Sutton Junction North controlled the "Penny Emma" junction via a ground frame.
The Penny Emma is featured in a Web article called "Sutton in Ashfield Photographic Memories, Stories and More Sutton Memories" seen here suttoninashfield.wixsite.com/sutton-railways/photos
Returning to Sutton Junction Station box:
My external photo of the box is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52490672259/in/album-...
I took a photo of RDB977020 BRE-Leyland Railbus (LEV3) heading towards the box, seen here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52489903997/in/album-...
There are photos courtesy of the Peter Churchman Collection, part of the excellent "Tillyweb" website. tillyweb.biz/index.htm The three photos (external views) can be seen here:
1) tillyweb.biz/pmc/suttonjunctionnorth1976pmc2.jpg
2) tillyweb.biz/pmc/suttonjunctionnorth1981pmc1.jpg
3) tillyweb.biz/pmc/suttonjunctionnorth1976pmc1.jpg
2) A YouTube video of stills "Rest Day Worked: Sleights East to Sutton Junction in the 80s and 90s" by madmax200769. The box features at 15:07 to 16:24 www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eggJOwrkLOo%22
The Station is featured in a Web article called "Sutton in Ashfield Photographic Memories, Stories and More
Sutton Memories" seen here suttoninashfield.wixsite.com/sutton-railways/home
The Sectional Appendix pages are here
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The quite accurate location of the box was 450993 (Easting) 358481 (Northing), seen here on the NLS maps maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.0&lat=5...
A more detailed 25 inch to the mile map is here maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.0&lat=5...
Seen on a 'blue light' call heading along the A38 Sutton-in-Ashfield on 05-02-12 is this Mercedes Ambulance FJ56 MGV, not the best of photo's, but ok I suppose, at least it's obvious it is on a call!