Crewe South those pioneering days we have evolved sophisticated and Five were still allocated there. Terms & Conditions of Use 31.10.64. The headcode looks like "V47" - see note below. Taken in 1963 during my last steam-era visit to Doncaster using my brother's Brownie 127 camera, at St. James bridge. Another view of D5685 as it backed onto carriages, with the main running lines to the south in the background. One of Wakefield's Austerities, 90429, leaves the yards at Ardsley in September 1964 and passes through the station with a southbound train of Yorkshire coal in steel mineral wagons. 5th January 1964. For most of its life, Percy Main's staple allocation was the J27 0-6-0 plus, I believe, J72 tank engines which had been replaced by a variety of 0-6-0 diesel shunters. It's fairly mucky but still has its cast number and name plates. With the sun dodging in and out, just beyond were some lines of assorted locos in steam, including another one of Didcot's allocation, "Modified Hall", No 6969 Wraysbury Hall. The line on the bridge was a goods line that came off the GNR/LNER line at Beeston Junction and ran into the industrial area south-east of Leeds City with a yard alongside the Aire & Calder Navigation. Behind it is 7925 Westol Hall from Cardiff (88A). 64A St. Margarets. 5th January 1964. Create a Photo Gift with this photo, add a memory, send an ePostcard and view more information. Riddles 5MT No 73122, a 67A Corkerhill loco, stands in front of the 10-road shed. By mid-afternoon the light was beginning to fade and this was my last picture of the day, of J27 No 65855 having its fire cleaned out - you can see a shovel's worth being chucked out of the cab. Several locos had been dumped there: three "Royal Scots" ex-66A Polmadie and Papyrus, a former star at Haymarket. Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last 50 years. The final years of steam in Yorkshire didn't reach the depths that was later to be seen in Lancashire. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. This was the North British Railway's largest shed and its allocation when we visited was still substantial with 67 locos to be seen, now a mixture of ex-LNER, ex-LMS and BR types, and as many diesels: 44799, 44930, 44970, 45018, 45058, 45195, 45236, 45286, 4530, 45359, D8071, D8074, D8093, D8096, D8098, D8102-3, D8110, D8112, D8115. Your figure of 9,000 working for the company across various sites in 1966 pretty much marries up with my figure of 5,000 at the site in Stourton. See the The inside of the running shed always felt dank anyway; it was not my favourite shed! On a fine day a good result was possible, even with Gratispool film! ironically all Riddles "standards". As it's worth a hundred times more today (less inflation over the years), I wish I'd had a little entrepreneurial spirit and bought out the entire stock, funded by the Bank of Mum and Dad, of course! Return by clicking the "x". 6864Dymock Grange Under TOPS, the loco became 47416 and was withdrawn from Gateshead in March 1986 after an astonishingly short life of only of only 23 years. When we got to Tyne Dock shed, 26 locos were to be seen, dominated by ex-NER freight types, J27 0-6-0 and Q6 0-8-0. An aerial view of Pudsey in the late 1950s. Ardsley signal box can be seen behind the overbridge and, to the left, the junction for the direct line from Wakefield to Bradford exchange used for the King's Cross portions attached/detached at Wakefield until BR closed the line. 3rd April 1964. Register to find out more and create your first album! Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. Loco works Gresley stock continued to serve until 1969(?) At last, a fairly clean ex-GWR "Prairie" tank, No 6112, one of Didcot's own. People, me included, men, women and children rambled all over the tracks taking pictures, up to several hundred yards out for the departure, and strange as it may seem in these modern times, officialdom turned a blind eye and nobody got run over. Photo: author. 62002 (K1) 66E Carstairs And finally, I had my own 35mm camera, a Zorki, which was an East German knock-off of the Leica, and really, not too bad, and for a 16-year old, heaven. The station was between Leeds and Cross gates when it opened in 1930 before it closed 30 years later in 1960. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. Percy Main Playtime: "Lads were adventurous and would walk to Temple Newsam. The Copperworks in Stourton has been a South Leeds landmark since it was built as the Leeds Copperworks in 1894. quoting the Frith negative number,(s) the town name and size of print you would like to buy. I don't recall ever feeling such regret. OK, beauty lies in the eye of the beholder; and I was smitten. Next is a "Presflo" bulk cement wagon labelled "The Rugby Portland Cement Co. Ltd". old photos of stourton leeds. I'll spare you my results, though, except for this one. Only D5313 as it came by on a train! Leading is a BR Standard goods brake van (Dia.1/506 with roller bearings), No.B953645. . 20 locos were on shed, and one diesel: 4919 Donington Hall South Blyth was mainly J27s plus the odd 2-6-0 and on shed that day were: 65810, 65819, 65852, 65855, 65862, 65870, 65876, 65891 (J27) You can just see the power classification, 5F, above the number. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs My visit was on a murky day in March 1966 when there was still plenty of steam, but also locos awaiting disposal. 75B Redhill Near Stourton one of the milk tanks derailed, but stayed in the formation for some distance, before causing more of the train to derail. You can't tell but this was actually an Eastleigh loco. Note how the diesels were parked by the offices and the smoky steam locos further away! Brookwood station Peppercorm A1 No 60117 Bois Roussel sits in the shed at Copley Hill. The leading passenger carriage in the picture is a BCK. D3244 (08). 90434 (WD) In the background is one of the A2s that had been re-allocated, and a cluster of lads with notebooks in hand passing by. Our complaints procedure is available here. 77010 finally moves towards the running shed to be stabled. It's a fond childhood memory, really. This asset has some traction but few have discovered it yet. 5th January 1964. Rag rug. flexible offerings for business. In April 1964, the train spotting societies in two secondary schools in Leeds combined for a tour of Glasgow and Edinburgh. April-May 1963. 73004 stands at the far end. 7th August 1965. 6913 Levens Hall Copyright Frith Content Inc 1998-2023. This one has the front doors still in place and a small middle cab window. But no pictures. 5th January 1964. Website hand-made by Frith, since 1998. One of each pair was supposed to show a white light, the other, red. 19th October 1966. One of my local sheds, Holbeck, used to have three "Britannias" (70044/53/54) until August 1962 when, unknown to me at the time, they were reallocated to Crewe North so it was a surprise to see them there. historic maps, A general view shows J94 68008 and J72 69006. The Bradford portion has been detached at Wakefield and will follow in a few minutes. 5988North Aston Hall History of Stourton, Leeds (1 C) S. St Andrew's war memorial, Stourton, Leeds (1 F) T. Thwaite Mills (20 F) Media in category "Stourton, Leeds" The following 13 files are in this category, out of 13 total. The clock is showing just before 1pm, which suggests a weekend visit. I always thought that the A1s looked good from this angle, really powerful, and the missing nameplates weren't too obvious - almost like the as-built condition before they were fitted. Steam was ending but we were young and couldn't really see it; train-spotting was carrying on despite the increasingly sad sights. Station. The class was withdrawn from Copley Hill within a year and was extinct by the summer of 1962. Here, however, is No 70054 Dornoch Firth parked in the overcast grunge of the day at Crewe South. Steam lasted in the West Riding for another couple of years and I could have seen it during holidays but the Nine Elms encounter with filth and rust had finished it for me. Historic Maps of Stourton and the local area. Website hand-made by Frith, since 1998. 7th August 1965. When BR was formed, Tyseley was given a Western Region shed code of 84E, until transfer in 1963 to the LMR when it became 2A. The early ones had a BR2 or BR2A tender for 3,500 gallons of water and 6 tons of coal. South Blyth I would be interested in your source for the 90,000 workers during the war. The yards at Hunslet can be seen just right of centre. 16.2.66. it has not been shown on our website before as it has not been optimised and therefore may not meet the quality standards we require for use in our normal product range. On a cold Sunday early in January 1964, my school train spotting society in Leeds organised a minibus trip around a cluster of freight sheds in the North East. 69003, 69011, 69019 (J72) However, we understand that this image could be potentially important for genealogical, local history or architectural research and so we are showing it on the website for on-line research only. A batch of pictures taken in September 1965, beginning with 4F No 44570 which is just north of Holbeck on the west chord of the Whitehall triangle where there used to be a goods yard. So when I tried again in 1966 I simply walked in, and got a shock. Send a personal message with a photo to anyone, anywhere. 65B St. Rollox A modern, almost spaceship-like profile but, alas, all were withdrawn within a dozen years and more Class 20s built in their place. After Guildford we headed for Reading (81D), by way of the station at Brookwood. Ah, pure beauty :). Sunderland, once a large roundhouse shed, had the most meagre allocation to see that day, albeit purely ex-NER 0-8-0s and 0-6-0s: 63388, 63406, 63441, 63444, 63456, 63458 (Q6) 81A Old Oak Common There used to be a large cemetery here, served by the railway (long since lifted) which brought the deceased from London, for example, some twenty miles away. 6966 Witchingham Hall Frith photos prompt happy memories of our personal history, so enjoy this trip down memory lane It was my first encounter with the class. Finally (yes, there's lots more but this is not the place for all of it! By 1961 Neville Hill had a pair of Ivatt 2-6-0s, Nos 43051/54 and the latter is seen either running into or out of the shed. So sad to see a loco in such poor condition. The shadows lengthen as B1 No 61394 awaits its return working, parked by the depot's breakdown crane. Available for both RF and RM licensing. The sun was getting low and while I took the usual front 3/4 snaps, here are the more interesting views! April/May 1963. We travelled by coach overnight in both directions, and during the day, visited almost a dozen sheds in and between the twp cities.