Another Civil Engineers day out on the Midland line with a return to Blackburn Meadows - 6496+502
* Meadowhall Station
Moving off to Meadowhall, 'masking up' even though its required by law on this day, better safe than sorry and best to show good intent, including at least 2m distancing. Kind of disappointing in a way as all the traction had moved off further east, or west, as these two shots show. At left, looking towards the Tinsley Viaduct and the passage of an outfit, 'Maritime' who currently had one of their branded locos sat at Masbrough Station, although I didn't get a shot of this, Gavin.B did, see-
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which had only arrived about an hour before these shots were taken; should have made the effort to go over and take a look but a 'Click-N-Collect' was imminent followed by a distanced family meeting in the garden at 2pm, so... Underneath the arches, just as the line curves around towards Holmes Junction, the second type of Colas traction in the area today, class 70, 70813 sits having come in on the 1400 tonne, 6C82, Belmont Down Yard to Masbrough Junction working and arriving at 00:25 this morning. It will leave here, at 16:43 this afternoon, on the same working, also with 1400 tonnes, of spent ballast presumably, on the return Brightside to Toton North Yard move. The station was of course bereft of passengers, the NR Line Possession extending from north of the Brightside Sidings, all the way along to Holmes Junction and Masbrough. In the right shot, looking south towards Brightside, on the left, a graffiti'd lineside cabin, and the location of the old Wincobank Signalbox, in the hazy distance, red liveried DBC class 66, 66113 stands ready to depart in a couple of hours on the 6T53, Brightside via Chesterfield and back to Belmont Down Yard. Coming off the Blackburn Valley, wrong-line, another class 158, this time 158784 on the Leeds via the Brightside back line to Sheffield service, 2L03, it snakes its way slowly along, there looks to be 25mph speed restrictions on all the lines affected by the diverted routing. Ahead, in the 'goods loop/back line' the signal, S0197, for moves south back onto the main line crossover into Sheffield, is showing red with therefore, no lit feather; it must have changed fairly quickly as the service went straight through on time. Eerily quiet on the station as it was elsewhere, until the bottom section of the Tinsley was reached, the next stop, where things changed a bit...
Another Civil Engineers day out on the Midland line with a return to Blackburn Meadows - 6496+502
* Meadowhall Station
Moving off to Meadowhall, 'masking up' even though its required by law on this day, better safe than sorry and best to show good intent, including at least 2m distancing. Kind of disappointing in a way as all the traction had moved off further east, or west, as these two shots show. At left, looking towards the Tinsley Viaduct and the passage of an outfit, 'Maritime' who currently had one of their branded locos sat at Masbrough Station, although I didn't get a shot of this, Gavin.B did, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/49068127@N06/50006609282/
which had only arrived about an hour before these shots were taken; should have made the effort to go over and take a look but a 'Click-N-Collect' was imminent followed by a distanced family meeting in the garden at 2pm, so... Underneath the arches, just as the line curves around towards Holmes Junction, the second type of Colas traction in the area today, class 70, 70813 sits having come in on the 1400 tonne, 6C82, Belmont Down Yard to Masbrough Junction working and arriving at 00:25 this morning. It will leave here, at 16:43 this afternoon, on the same working, also with 1400 tonnes, of spent ballast presumably, on the return Brightside to Toton North Yard move. The station was of course bereft of passengers, the NR Line Possession extending from north of the Brightside Sidings, all the way along to Holmes Junction and Masbrough. In the right shot, looking south towards Brightside, on the left, a graffiti'd lineside cabin, and the location of the old Wincobank Signalbox, in the hazy distance, red liveried DBC class 66, 66113 stands ready to depart in a couple of hours on the 6T53, Brightside via Chesterfield and back to Belmont Down Yard. Coming off the Blackburn Valley, wrong-line, another class 158, this time 158784 on the Leeds via the Brightside back line to Sheffield service, 2L03, it snakes its way slowly along, there looks to be 25mph speed restrictions on all the lines affected by the diverted routing. Ahead, in the 'goods loop/back line' the signal, S0197, for moves south back onto the main line crossover into Sheffield, is showing red with therefore, no lit feather; it must have changed fairly quickly as the service went straight through on time. Eerily quiet on the station as it was elsewhere, until the bottom section of the Tinsley was reached, the next stop, where things changed a bit...