Barrow Hill, Derbyshire 21st April 2002

            LNER B1 4-6-0 61264 - numbered 61238 & named Leslie Runciman for the day - sits outside in the yard at Barrow Hill shed together with V2 2-6-2 Green Arrow early on Saturday 21st April. Just visible behind the B1 is Deltic/Class 55 9009 Alycidon

It was a special steam Open day & I had taken advantage of a 07.00 photographer's opening time to avoid the crowds that filled the whole site later. If I was there at 07.00 can you imagine what ungodly hour the train crews had to arrive to light up the engines?

The former Midland Railway steam roundhouse located at Barrow Hill near Chesterfield, is the last surviving operational roundhouse engine shed in Great Britain. It opened in 1870 &  was in continuous use until it finally closed in 1991.

It was reopened by the Barrow Hill Engine Shed Society in 1998 & is home to many steam, diesel & electric locomotives.

I was still a cleaner on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough then but since I have had the pleasure, & honour, of firing both these fine engines.

Taken on: April 21, 2002

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