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Barnsley's centre is well worth a visit. I'm not sure that the extra bottle was part of the display!!!!!!!
YORKSHIRE TRACTION
YTC's mini buses operated under the TownLink banner, here MCW MetroRider MF150/28, 536 (D536SKY), new in July, 1987, heads out to Lundwood.
Uploaded on 4th. February, 2022
The Barnsley District Coking Company coke ovens at Barrow, in full swing on 30th July 1971, with coke being discharged into the bespoke hopper wagon prior to being propelled to the quencher in the background by the semi-permanently coupled Wellman, Smith Owen Engineering Corp. Ltd. standard gauge steeple-cab 0-4-0 overhead electric coke oven loco. The coke ovens were located approximately half-way along a three-quarter mile branch line between Barrow colliery and the BR main line, south of Dovecliffe station.
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Town Hall Fountains, Barnsley. The Venue is a bar which has undergone a bewildering number of name changes over past decades, since it closed as Yates Wine Lodge in 2008. The Fountains were installed in the Summer of 2013.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England - The Venue, Shambles Street / Town Hall Fountains
October 2025
The building was previously the Bush Inn located on Keresforth Hall Rd, Kingstone, Barnsley.
The "Graffiti" was created in 2015.
Waiting departure time at Barnsley is Northern Class 158 No 158901 with 1Y56 1917 Nottingham to Leeds.
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This little lad was about to get the telling off of his life as he could have ended up beneath the wheels of YN60FKR...luckily the driver's hazard perception skills were finely honed!
I'm returning to Barnsley now. The main reason we went to the town was to see the Anton Want photographic exhibition at Cooper's Gallery. This exhibition was called 'The Crossing - Remnants of Change' and portrayed the people and places of the town as it is changing. It was a good exhibition and the gallery itself is to be recommended.
The snow has almost melted away in this view of Barnsley's streets taken from the footbridge at Summer Lane station on 4th February 1996. A Pacer unit approaches on a Sheffield to Huddersfield working.
BARNSLEY & DISTRICT
Waiting in the overspill bus station, on the X12 to Rotherham (via the M1 Motorway) is 133 (GHE696V) a Leyland Leopard PSU3E/4R with Plaxton Supreme IV Exp coachwork.
It was new to Yorkshire Traction in 1978 as 257 (DAK257V), later it became 17 (1737HE) and was transferred in 1992.
Barnsley was always a fun place to visit after deregulation and the nearby Carlton scrapyards must have been beneficiaries to much of the activity. Former West Midlands PTE Leyland Fleetline 6420 (NOC 420R) came into the Yorkshire Traction group through their purchase of Andrews and had been transferred to the Barnsley & District subsidiary by the time of this view on 3rd April, 1993.
Barnsley (Exchange) station taken from a Huddersfield to Sheffield train. These were diverted to run via Barnsley in May 1983 via a route which had previously not had passenger trains since 1959. This building was demolished when the rail / bus interchange was built.
Barnsley's centre is well worth a visit. The Victorian Arcade has been thoughtfully renovated and is full of shops.
Ex Bus Eireann Dart 02-C-16550 at left, with ex Bakerbus DX61EOO next to it in Tates yard, Barnsley.
DX61EOO's presence here is controversial in that it, along with two other vehicles, was purchased with government funding assistance for use by Baker's in its Staffordshire heartland. Bakerbus fell prey to Island Fortitude investment, and mysteriously got into difficulties not long after. The three B5LHs disappeared from Staffordshire, only to briefly re-appear on schools services in North Yorkshire working for Eddie Brown, another Island Fortitude backed company which suddenly got into difficulties.
Both Bakerbus and Eddie Brown subsequently and rather hurriedly got out of local services, Eddie Brown's rapid departure in particular causing a bit of a headache for North Yorkshire County Council.
The Bakerbus business (staff & routes, but not vehicles) was sold to Rolling Solutions (D&G), and the Eddie Brown coaching business was moved to Globe Holidays in Barnsley, a Tate's business. The B5LHs went to Tates, and have been seen operating the Dewsbury service.
The words 'controversial' and 'Island Fortitude' often appear in the same sentence.
Partial easing of lockdown allowed me to drive to Barnsley, so that Mrs S could have a socially distanced outdoor one on one meeting with her daughter. I obviously wasn't allowed to attend so no choice but to take some socially distanced exercise, which somehow took me down the road to Barnsley Bus Station, where ex Turner Tours and Thurmaston Bus Enviro 200 KC60DVP, now with Globe Holidays (Tates), backs off the stand.
West Coast Railways Class 57 No 57314 'Conway Castle' arriving at Barnsley with “The Northern Bell” 1Z57 the 1425 Carlisle to Manchester Piccadilly. I was lucky to get this shot as a Class 195 was moving behind me departing to Leeds.
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