Woodhead Remembered part 2

Vintage rail footage.

Crowden station had closed in 1957 as 26024 heads for Manchester on the down Main the pantographs get lower to negotiate the station foot Bridge number 68 which was removed in 196 69 climbing is 2611 which will pass under the foot bridge and on past the signal box which sat above the water of the Woodhead Reservoir although the station building was on firmer ground on the 18th of April 1964 enthusiasts were waiting near torside reservoir for a rather rare

Event as an em2 pass the camera heading for Sheffield it was to be followed by 44 472 Flying Scotsman on an SLS rail tour from Manchester to marleybone steam was banned from working through the Woodhead tunnel but on this occasion the train was piloted by an electric locomotive with 4472 fire damped Down the vast expanse of torside reservoir owned by Manchester operation forms the backdrop to 26015 Manchester bound across torside Crossing where the b6105 road from glossup crosses the Railway the next Reservoir was radwood a passenger train heads towards Railhouse at Veil housee there was a down goods Loop and a freight is drifting to a stop on it for a passenger train to overtake the distant Reservoir was again owned by Manchester Corporation dating from 1869 with a maximum depth of 40 ft the name Veil house came from the Hamlet that was

Flooded to form the reservoir next up in the loop is a westbound oil train bound from Mery Side viewed from the padfield road bridge this passenger overtakes the freight once Hadfield East box was on the right we have now left the Moors behind and enter civilization again at Hatfield Hadfield station also served the Villages of tint whle and Hollingsworth on the 16th of April 1966 it was visited by the lcgb cotton spinner ra tour hold by standard tank 8203 and still sporting a cycling lion emblem on its tank sides even at this

Late date in her career at this time she was allocated to Patrick Ro Manchester Hatfield was the furthest extremity of the class 506 emus on the service to Manchester pck dly built in 1954 by Metro camel they had a life of 30 Years next station was dining the station buildings dated from 1884 when a line to glossip was added to form a triangular Junction here seen from the East End 2605 has just crossed dinting V duct with a freight and heads towards Woodhead from the other side of the line

The VOD duct is more apparent as 26039 passes over the junction for the glossom route diverging left in this View Another EM1 passes by on the main line a class 506 unit passes The Junction for dining station in Manchester on its way to Hadfield from glossup This unit is at dining East Junction returning to Glossup on board the previous ly seen lcgb special we pass dinting glossup Junction from dinting and run into glossup station 8203 runs round its train the two Road good shed on the left seres sidings in the goodyard which was still open at this time however it would close just 2

Months later in June 1966 A three car 506 unit departs glosser A fine overall view of glossup station and yards the signal box would close in October 1968 in March 1969 the line from glossup to dining was singled On train again we approached dining in the distance the one road engine shed can be seen which formed the centerpiece of the dining railway center started in 1967 this became home to the Bahamas locomotive Society who brought the engine from Ferry on the 15th of November 1968 and is seen Crossing

Dining Badu and entering the center [Applause] the Loco shed was of Great Central origin and had coal and watering facilities 1500 volt overhead was provided for staing the EM 1s although this was removed by the time this senior F the center hosted various Mainline engines while it existed including another visiting Jubilee 5690

Leander industrial engines found a home here like tiny an Andrew Barkley of 1949 vintage although she looked a little bit older than that in 1978 6115 scon gsman was present and worked a Mainline rail tour to York from here she looked resplendent in postwar LMS black Livery with maroon and straw lining

Built in November 1927 she was rebuilt with a 2-a taper boiler in 1947 and was the first of the rebuilt stots to be fitted with smoke deflectors she leaves dinting over the rer on the 8th of November 19 1969 an EM1 crosses dinting Viaduct it is 1200

Ft long Crossing dining Dale and the a57 Sheffield Road strengthening peers were added between 1918 and 1920 another EM1 hurs down the vardu on route from Mom yard Mom yard opened in 1935 with eight reception sidings Fanning out into 20 sorting sidings on a falling gradient it was work from a control tower Beyond which were the yard offices the lcgb tour of 1966 passes motum number 2 the box now only 10 mil from Manchester Picadilly we arrive at broadbottom it

Was opened to passengers in 1842 by The Sheffield Ashton underline and Manchester Railway A 506 unit arrives under the bridge taking Moss Lane over the station and shows the original Station built in Italian AG style this is on the upside The Classy M1 is running light towards G Bridge just beyond the station it passes traction of a much earlier age in the form of 1838 built Liverpool and Manchester lion she was on to dining the titfield Thunderbolt star proudly steams by its tail lamp hanging on the tender cing

Hook this is Godly Junction where the XC lines join the Woodhead route this gave access West to Stockport and Liverpool bypassing Manchester and became aamp change over point for traction this Sheffield bound train runs across the junction with a Stockport Rout To the right an oil train awaits a traction change as 26,000 Tommy approaches built in 1940 she was the first of the 58 EM1 from 1947 to 1952 she worked on the Dutch Railways the cab has certain differences to the production EM1 she has seen again at guide Bridge

Doing a change over to seam power on the lcg v’s penine rail tour of the 19th of September 1964 the black five is stock for Edgley 45382 guide Bridge was an important Junction with lines to stady Bridge Stockport and the Midland Mainline to Darby via new Mills 26050 stentor

Departs for Sheffield in early 1968 the date is the 7th of September 1966 and 26028 is approaching from Brookside sidings and past the good shed steam power was still much in evidence here at this time indeed it continued until 1968 The Yards were very busy but congested and fragmented and was one of

The reasons mom yard was built further east 28fs head east across Ashton Junction 2634 Halls 2703 Diana towards reddish Depot go reddish Depot was built to maintain the Woodhead route electric locomotives and emus this is the West End of the depot the middle part housed an overhead crane and major overhauls took place there to the right of this were the inspection

Bays the dep Depot eventually did work on diesel traction and by 1983 it was abandoned a line from reddish Depot joined the main line near courton station the 506 unit is arriving from glossup ashbury’s Corel view it was named after the Ashbury Railway carriage and iron company whose premises were

Adjoining the station a 506 unit passes on the downline for Picadilly [Applause] on the upline 70,3 Oliver Cromwell heads towards ashbury’s East junction box The GC Woodhead line joined the lnw R’s Mainline into Manchester London Road at Hardwick a black five sweeps around the curve heading for Manchester with a train off the romaly Line coming out of Manchester Picadilly is E350 a be peacock built Al 2 on the 25 K AC system which was the downfall of the woodhead’s 1500 volt DC route it being decided it was too expensive to convert however the line to Hadfield in glossip was converted to 25 K 3 years

After the wood head line was closed and the 1500 volt DC units withdraw a further sign of the times was the sighting of HST sets into Picadilly and these early 1980s views show the variety of traction at Hardwick finally we reached Manchester Picadilly until until 1960 it was known as London Road a joint station of the Manchester Sheffield in Lincoln and the Manchester in Birmingham later GC and lnwr the GC side was on the northeast part 26056 Triton backs into number one platform for a service to [Applause] Sheffield 26056 again she was the penultimate EM1 built in July 195 3 naming took place 6 years later and final withdraw a 76056 was in June 1978 a life of 25 years an unusual site at Picadilly was the arrival of test coach Hermes 26054 Pluto had been repainted BR blue

With full yellow front it also obtained the E prefix before the tops numbering scheme of class 76 quite what it was to be confused with is not clear as there never was a d2605 for e2652 Nester is still in green liy but has lost a name

F the 7 em2 Cocos were all withdrawn in September 1968 and stored at Berry in 1969 the Dutch Railways had a test run behind 27,000 and2 and decided to buy all seven they got a bargain at about £30,000 each new locomotives would have cost more than three times as much 27,0

In4 Juno has received a blue Livery but still retained a feret and dartboard token towards the end of its BR ownership f 2704 Juno was renumbered NS 1503 and is seen at Rotterdam station rebuilding to suit Dutch Railway conditions included replacing pantographs electric train Heat eating air brakes and anti- slip and new

Sanding 1506 the earthw 2702 Aurora was the first to be taken to Holland in September 1969 but the last to enter service there 1501 was the first to enter service on the Rotterdam to Veno line her wood end career was as 2703 Diana the Roman goddess of

Hunting the imposing station of denh har Witnesses 1502 2 or firstof class 27,000 Electra departing 1505 which had been 27,1 har Adney back at rotown 1501 Diana to’s 1503 Juno and 1505 AR Adney through Rotterdam station Ari Adney was renamed on the 5th of July 19 85 in its last year of

Service with the Netherlands Railway and along with 1502 Electra would eventually come home to Britain to be preserved Mar Adney can now be found at the Manchester Museum of Science and [Applause] Industry British enthusiasts visited Holland to travel Behind these well-loved machines a triple header departing Rotterdam for the hook of Holland had to be the greatest of all bonuses a few years before enthusiasts were able to run tours over a British 1500 volt DC route the North Country Continental

Behind sem 6028 and sem 6025 arrives at Manchester [Applause] Picadilly Come an aptly named tour was the ACDC H by 76013 and 76021 the Sheffield side of Picadilly also saw class 31s on passenger trains to Sheffield via the Hope Valley Line but this video has been about the Woodhead route and its locomotives and we return to Sheffield Victoria by that

Line at guide bridge 26047 diam medius is seen at Ashton Junction steam is present in Brookside sidings and there is much activity in the yards with electric and steam all the way past dnap sidings at dnap there were 56 sidings all with their own designations such as frodingham York Whitmore and Tinsley After Godly is the long Hattery cutting which was once a tunnel the fly up carrying the a560 road to Stockport was built in 1931 which was once on top of the Tunnel broad bottom Station at peniston Another Empty merry-go round train of bathtubs has successfully negotiated wooded tunnel or the hole under the hill at Sheffield Victoria 26054 Pluto acts like its ancestors of the steam engines badly in need of water for a steam heating boiler the Manchester Sheffield WTH line died in July 1981 w

Tunnel still survives can one dare but hope one day it will reopen to rails again this time possibly at 25 Kil Vols [Applause] AC