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13 lost Leeds railway stations that have completely disappeared The approach to this shed was by the main line into Glasgow Queen St. (High Level) and D5313, a Birmingham RC&WC Type 2 (later Class 26) came bowling along with a medium length train, so my apologies for the snatch shot. 33027 (70B) was one of only around ten survivors at the time, divided between this shed and Guildford. 4.9.65. Stourton, Leeds. The clock is showing just before 1pm, which suggests a weekend visit. Another "Britannia" at Newton Heath from Carlisle by the turntable, 70039 Sir Christopher Wren was initially allocated to Norwich in East Anglia but was now at Kingmoor.
Own photos 1960s - B&W - Steve Banks Valentine's Day offer - Save 25% off all images, use code: VALAMY25. 2. 16th February 1966. Delivery Info Help Contact Us UK () They were joined at Harrogate for the final leg to Darlington. South Blyth
What can be seen of the formation is typical of parcels practice at the time with pre-Nationalisation stock still in service interspersed with vanfits: The fifth vehicle could be an ex-WR long-wheelbase Fruit D, many of which were transferred to parcels traffic but there's not a lot to go on! Old hands may remember that ex-GNR J52 saddle tanks had performed these duties into the 1950s. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. Contact Us Read and share maps The early ones had a BR2 or BR2A tender for 3,500 gallons of water and 6 tons of coal. No pictures, alas, but the allocation was larger, albeit with only two types, ex-NER 0-8-0s and 0-6-0s: 63362, 63386, 63413, 63429, 63459 (Q6)
An aerial view of the newly built Park and Ride area in Stourton, East Leeds providing parking for people and a bus service to the centre of Leeds city. Photo: Author. Note how the front number plate has been stolen, and so has the shed plate. Our readers will be interested to know that the works buildings have been refurbished and that employment is set to return to the site. D3242, D3243 (08). :-), Neville Hill was 50B (under York's 50A) until January 1959 when it became part of the district under Holbeck (55A) and the code changed to 55H. It's a fond childhood memory, really. 7th August 1965. The book took 12 years for me and Clive to complete and, though I say so myself, Ian Allan have made a beautiful job of it (see full description and sample pages). A bonus arrived when a J94, No 68043, came by on the main running line hauling a pick-up or transfer goods. No shed plate was being carried but I believe that this used to be a 41D Canklow loco; its B1s often worked parcels trains to and from Leeds City. This still exists today as the Yorkshire Imperial Band, or Yorkshire Imps, you may have seen them performing in Middleton Park in recent years. Browse our selection of vintage, retro and nostalgic black and white photographs 6963 Throwley Hall
When the train moved off, the condition of the loco revealed itself, with masses pf steam leaking from the cylinders. By a quirk of fate we met up last week in Leeds at a school reunion. I had to close with a picture of a working loco and it's a portrait of ex-GWR "Pannier" tank No 3625, also minus its number plates but carrying a snow plough. Flying Scotsman sweeps past. 67A Corkerhill
We ended up doing Feltham in the dark and Old Oak Common and Willesden, though you have to bear in mind that in late October/early November it's dark around 5pm and we still had places to visit! In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. Hunslet Shopping Centre. memories of Stourton. A short while later, Back 5 No 45219 was released from the train it had delivered and was sent out on the Down main line. The WD "Austerity", No 90030 (York) and its coal empties finally gets away. It would have shunted the sidings at Hunslet on the way. Vol.2 about the Secondary Services should follow in a year or so's time. photos for this location. 16-3-66. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. Trams on Boar Lane in Leeds. An ex-SR "West Country" class Pacific graces the yard, No 34037 West Ward Ho, a visitor from Salisbury. 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. 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. The yards at Hunslet can be seen just right of centre. Turning could have been via the roundhouse, or by using the Whitehall triangle, which according to Keith Long who was a signalman at Engine Shed Junction Signal Box (Holbeck), was used for Gresley Pacifics. 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! Copyright Frith Content Inc 1998-2023. The whole train may have still been made up with ex-LMS carriages but by 1964 had been modernised with BR Mk.1 stock and it seems that a van was still being rostered at the head. On the right stands Britannia 70017 Arrow and to the left, an ex-LMS diesel shunter of 1939 with cardan shaft drive (no.12021 or 12022). It was quite an exposed location and most of my visits coincided with poor weather, on this occasion, cloudy and misty. 70C Guildford
And only ten shots were possible, quite unlike a 35mm camera, let alone the digital cameras of today. Another former Caledonian Railway shed, this was quite a small affair for goods traffic with only a handful of locos, but also the entire stud of preserved Scottish engines, among which was one that was not to be saved: Sadly, the Small Ben was never restored and was cut up in 1966. Register to find out more and create your first album! The leading mineral wagons, steel and wooden, were carrying scrap metal. The first picture in the sequence from June shows a green liveried Sulzer Type 2 with the small middle window in the cab, D5227 (later Class 25/1 25077). 7917North Aston Hall
The headcode looks like "V47" - see note below. History [ edit] 16.2.66. Station. This image is a Reference Print: Fortunately, A4 600025 Falcon also came by, light engine. A personal view at Doncaster taken in 1962 by my brother, Adam, with his Brownie 127 when he'd have been 12 and me 14, of A4 No 60021 Wild Swan arriving at the spotters' platform with the 3.26pm Leeds Central-King's Cross, "White Rose". 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. those pioneering days we have evolved sophisticated and 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. The Bradford portion has been detached at Wakefield and will follow in a few minutes. In the distance one of the J50 station pilots is approaching while to the right, lost in porridge, is one of the J6 0-6-0s, No 64203, 64226 or 64277. when BR withdrew all wooden-bodied coaches. Stock Photo ID: 2150473149. Behind it is 7925 Westol Hall from Cardiff (88A). It looks like the old signal (of Midland Railway origin?) Upload Image Faster batch processing > Before After
Old Photos of Stourton - Francis Frith Courtesy of Leeds Museums & Galleries. 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. Rag rug. We had been advised, or so said the rumour, that an A4 had been rostered so it was disappointing to see an old friend turn up in this condition. On a murky Sunday in 1961, A3 60075 St Frusquin of Gateshead was on shed - it had probably worked the southbound "Queen of Scots" - and I set the camera up on a nearby buffer stop and pressed the lever shutter release twice. 7029 Clun Castle berthed at Gloucester shed alongside brush Type 4 D1721. Out of curiosity, I wandered out along the shed yard towards many signals and the running lines and was rewarded when 92061 came storming up the gradient with a loaded train. The next signal box, Holbeck's Engine Shed Junction was just round the corner. You will then see a large blue button which will enable you to choose any of our print options available for this image - framed, mounted or just a print on its own. Next to arrive was 8F No 48276, one of 56D Mirfield's allocation, with a Class 8 train, a code normally applied to an express freight with minimal brake force, in this case what appears to be a breakdown train. 65F Grangemouth
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Don't miss other visitors' Memories and maybe connect with those who have shared their memories - you may even know the names, or learn more about the locality. To the right is the three-road repair shop, and beyond, the recently built DMU shed and fuel stores. Near Stourton one of the milk tanks derailed, but stayed in the formation for some distance, before causing more of the train to derail. D1515 was built on 29th March 1963 and could hardly have been more than a few days old. 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.
Stourton, Leeds - Wikipedia A panned shot with the Brownie 127's shutter speed of 1/40sec showing plenty of motion blur in the foreground. J50 68988 stands in front of the offices at Copley Hill (56C) in April/May 1963. Historic Maps of Stourton and the local area. 8F No 48276 is released from what appears to have been a breakdown crane train and backs away on the Down loop. This general view was taken in Aug/Sep 1964 with the shed being run down and almost empty. This is the only decent picture I managed, "Jinty" No 47519. Terms & Conditions of Use Years later I learned that Copley Hill was a fearsomely difficult shed to get round because the main entrance took you past the Foreman's office.
Stourton photos, maps, books, memories - Francis Frith A wider view from under the Balm Road skew bridge of 48276 and the Down yard. It was sad but at least an effort had been made to give the loco a clean. Our complaints procedure is available here. The coaling stage looms high in the background. The shed used to be two and half miles from where I lived and as a teenager, used to visit on my push bike, despite two quite steep hills - traffic was still quite light in those days! Now I'm scanning the negs. The Copperworks in Stourton has been a South Leeds landmark since it was built as the Leeds Copperworks in 1894. In truth it probably needed to have been pressed four times, such was the gloom, and the pale Gratispool negative came out very grainy. Area information, map, footpaths, walks and more. I was still working there in 1983. 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. 75B Redhill
One reason for the picture was to record the dark shape behind the tender, inside the shed. After the SR sheds we went up the Thames Valley visiting three WR sheds. Behind it can be seen a remnant of what used to be the outer wall of the shed when it had four roundhouses. 31.10.64. Three were on shed that day: 82039,40,42. 65A Eastfield
Stourton leeds hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy Old Photos of Stourton, Yorkshire - browse nostalgic, historic local photos online. We have no photos of Stourton, therefore we have published no local books of this location. You can just see the power classification, 5F, above the number. In the far distance on the right, a large works was owned by Clayton & Sons who assembled pipes and boilers and that still stands today. A closer view of D5100 in ridiculously dirty condition, with an even muckier ex-LMS Black 5 beyond it, believed to be 45063. I would be interested in your source for the 90,000 workers during the war. One of the later "Halls" with a smooth-sided tender allocated to Reading, No 6953 Leighton Hall, coasts by. Photo: Author. I presume that the code "O" was used to designate a station pilot. Once the special had passed, the sun came out and it was a pleasure to gaze upon a Riddles "Britannia" in pretty much the original condition with proper handrails on the smoke deflectors. Not sure what to do or how to buy a photo or map? A shunter is walking up, pole in hand, to uncouple the loco and release it. This, by contrast, was a fine autumnal day at a place I had never visited before - the ex-Midland Railway/LMS yards at Hunslet, located between Holbeck and Stourton.
Stourton, Leeds - Old Knostrop swing bridge and Thwaite mills 4K drone I was 15 years old and this was my first experience with a 35mm camera, kindly loaned me by one of my dad's workmates. A modern day City Square from above (Image: Eric Musgrave)2 of 26. Photo: Steve Banks, 9F No 92046 seen again with its BR1C 4,725 gallon tender. The two stations, Leeds City and Leeds Central, were just above the top left corner. Green livery includes a low white line (or was it pale green?). Available for both RF and RM licensing. For railway fans, however, the beauty of this location was the former LSWR four-track main line between Waterloo and Exeter and ten miles of rising gradient which steepened gradually, 1:314 through the station, peaking nor far beyond at 1:298. A batch of pictures taken at ex-LYR shed Farnley in Leeds in October 1965. England / Yorkshire and the Humber / Stourton, Leeds.
Stourton, Leeds - Wikiwand The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs Photo: Author. Find the perfect stourton leeds stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. 31.10.64. Sorry, we have no old photos of Stourton available currently. 16.2.66. An unusual feature is the large tender, better associated with 9Fs. You might like browse old photos of these nearby places. 5th January 1964. old photos of stourton leedschapel royal, st james palace services old photos of stourton leeds. Create a Photo Gift with this photo, add a memory, send an ePostcard and view more information. I borrowed a camera for the day that took 120 roll film, so the negatives are large. The two stations, Leeds City and Leeds Central, were just above the top left corner. In the distance is a glimpse of the large yards that used to lie here, with many open wagons that were gradually disappearing from the scene.