Colas 60 Retrieval of cripple wagon from Sheffield Midland Station - 0730+733

            Excitement at the station and for a brief time as activity which started before Xmas when a wagon en-route to the Hope Valley was discovered to have a bad flat on one of its wheels so it, and 2 of its compatriots were hauled onto the Up Slow line 1 at the station. The remedial antics started around 24 hours earlier when a Colas 60 arrived at the station from Toton, making it feel a bit like the old days when freight services were about, wagons were parked or passing on the slow lines and there might have been a failed loco in the station being attended to and that's how it sort of was, last Friday lunchtime. On arriving a little too late for the Tinsley stone empties return to the Bardon Hill quarries, another freight working was sat at the end of platform 2, waiting its path north past Sheffield PSB's S0127 signal and east out of the station, onto the Lincoln line. This working, 6E08, should have passed straight through at 11:29 just as I arrived, but fortune favours the late... and it sat waiting its path for 20 minutes.. allowing these captures. This is 66619, 'Derek W. Johnson MBE', working the Hope(Earles Sidings) to West Burton Power Station empties, presumably to pick up fly-ash from the power station and transport it over to the cement works at Castleton. The 66 sat thrumming in the station as other traffic came and went and it didn't depart for another twenty minutes as later pictures will show. Exiting the station from platform one and heading to the north is a Northern Rail class 142 DMU, 144020 on the local stopper, 2B44, from here to Huddersfield. Not all that many folk about on this day of indifferent weather and that pretty much remained the case for the next hour or so...
   

Taken on: January 6, 2017

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Sheffield Midland Station

Midland Main Line

Class 60

60095

0Z60

Toton T.M.D. to Sheffield Midland Up Slow 1

8Z60

Sheffield Midland US1 to Tinsley Yard S.S.

6Z60

Tinsley Yard S.S. to Sheffield Midland US1

6Z61

Sheffield Midland US1 to Barrow Hill(Colas)

Freightliner

Class 66

66619

Derek W. Johnson MBE

6E08

Hope(Earles Sidings) to West Burton Power Station

Northern rail

DMU

Class 142

142020

2B44

Sheffield to Huddersfield

Class 158

158784

Barbara Castle

1W36

Sheffield to Scarborough

158850

We are Fearless

Class 153

153328

2N24

Sheffield to Leeds

Class 144

144012

Evolution

East Midlands Trains

Class 222

222018

1C42

222022

1C47

Sheffield to St. Pancras High Level

1F17

St. Pancras High Level to Sheffield

ECS

5C47

Sheffield Platform 2B to Platform 6A

Cross Country Trains

Class 43

HST

43357

1V54

Dundee to Plymouth

Arriva Trains

Class 185

Transpennine Express

185114

1B74

Manchester Airport to Cleethorpes

JGA Wagons

Ermewa Wagon Rental

Cripple Wagon

Park Hill Flats

Sheaf Street Tunnels

Shrewsbury Road Bridges

Broad Street Tunnels

Sheffield Power Box

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