DCR class 56 Route Learner scurries up and down local network - 1875
* Brightside Station
Well, the last of the pack, and not a merged shot, just 'Serendipity', once more helping out... Heading south from a station stop at Meadowhall, having come of the Blackburn Valley line, is a now regular Northern Rail, class 195, 'Civity"', 'CAF, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.' 195010, on the 1L57, Leeds via Sheffield to Lincoln Central passenger service.. With yellow front panel, matching the receding light engine move from Sheffield. passing along the down main line is 'Devon & Cornwall Railway', class 56, 56091, 'Driver Wayne Gaskell' on the multi-part route learner, this one 0Z64, Sheffield to Kilnhurst Up Goods Loop working. In the distance is Meadowhall Interchange, built on the site of huge engineering works facilities including a loco engineering construction works amongst may other great, traditional, engineering concerns...all obliterated in the 1980s and 1990s push for new redevelopment of this and many other large engineering and money creating/generating, rather than money depleting/spending, sites.. What a happy circumstance to find two bits of engineering, their design and building separated by.. almost 50 years, calmly gliding through such an area...
DCR class 56 Route Learner scurries up and down local network - 1875
* Brightside Station
Well, the last of the pack, and not a merged shot, just 'Serendipity', once more helping out... Heading south from a station stop at Meadowhall, having come of the Blackburn Valley line, is a now regular Northern Rail, class 195, 'Civity"', 'CAF, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.' 195010, on the 1L57, Leeds via Sheffield to Lincoln Central passenger service.. With yellow front panel, matching the receding light engine move from Sheffield. passing along the down main line is 'Devon & Cornwall Railway', class 56, 56091, 'Driver Wayne Gaskell' on the multi-part route learner, this one 0Z64, Sheffield to Kilnhurst Up Goods Loop working. In the distance is Meadowhall Interchange, built on the site of huge engineering works facilities including a loco engineering construction works amongst may other great, traditional, engineering concerns...all obliterated in the 1980s and 1990s push for new redevelopment of this and many other large engineering and money creating/generating, rather than money depleting/spending, sites.. What a happy circumstance to find two bits of engineering, their design and building separated by.. almost 50 years, calmly gliding through such an area...