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London Overground Class 378 unit No. 378229 passes Kensington (Olympia) as the consist of the 5Q87 07:11 Widnes Transport Tech to New Cross Gate C.S.D. stock movement from overhaul hauled by Rail Operations Group Class 37 No. 37501 'Teeside Steelmaster'

Rail Operations Group Class 37 No. 37501 'Teeside Steelmaster' passes Kensington (Olympia) working the 5Q87 07:11 Widnes Transport Tech to New Cross Gate C.S.D. stock movement of London Overground Class 378 unit No. 378229 from overhaul

British Steel Corporation Scunthorpe Steelworks - Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society Locoshed - Haydock Foundry 0-6-0WT 'Bellerophon' (1874) - visiting from KWVR - during hand coaling before working the tours round the steelworks on 13th July 1991.

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Wolverhampton Corporation had for many years operated the No38 bus service to Swindon in South Staffordshire running via nearby Wombourne. Swindon was served from the Dudley side by the Midland Red's 259 service coming to Swindon from Dudley via Kingswinford and Wallheath. The 38 service passed to West Midlands PTE in 1969, and the 259 in December 1973 on the takeover the Midland Red's Black Country operations.

Here the two services briefly meet on High Street, Swindon in this rare view showing High Street before the cottages on the left were demolished, the canal bridge rebuilt and the road straightened. To the right is then British Steel Corporation's Steel Works, better known as The Forge. Swindon had been associated with iron production in the mid 1600s, and by the 1870s boasted no less than twelve puddling furnaces producing iron sheet. At the end of WW2, the works became Richard Thomas and Baldwin Ltd, but following Nationalisation in 1948, became the British Steel Corporation, Swindon Works. The works closed in 1976, and today a housing estate stands on the site.

To the left of picture is 106N (7106UK), an ex Wolverhampton CT, Guy Arab V dating from 1963. The bus was based at Bilston Street Garage in Wolverhampton.

The bus to the right with its conductor leaning on the side of the bridge looking at the canal, was an ex Birmingham City Transport, Daimler CVG6 2882 (JOJ882) that at the time was either on loan to Dudley or Hartshill bus garages, working from both during periods in 1974. Presumably there is an issue with the number display on 2882, as the bus only shows '59' rather than 259? Being a short term loan bus, it does not carry the correct destination blinds, so the Birmingham blind is blanked off making it somewhat confusing for passengers.

106N was withdrawn in November 1976, and 2882 withdrawn in March 1975. Both buses were sold to scrap dealers, but the windows from 106N were removed at withdrawal, and should still exist with the Transport Museum at Wythall.

British Railways Standard 2-10-0 Class 9F No 92203 'Black Prince' (minus nameplates) heads loaded steel strip coils on bogie wagons beside the Strip Mill at British Steel Shotton Steelworks during the Freight Train Productions Charter event on 11th October 1997

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11.10am. Running one and a half hours ahead of its scheduled time 60068 "Charles Darwin" is seen passing Whitehouse Box with 6Z84 the BSC Ore Terminal Redcar to Keton Ward Sidings working. Opposite the box can be seen what remains of the old Cargo Fleet Station.

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British Steel Corporation Shelton Bar Steelworks - 0-4-0ST WG Bagnall 'Hawarden' (No 2623/1940) shunts loaded steel billet bogie wagons into the Bloom Bay on 8th April 2000.

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British Steel 58 (D9554) passes 64 (D9549) on the run from Oakley Quarries on 23 August 1979. 58 was scrapped in 1982, with 64 being re-gauged by Hunslet before export to Spain.

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British Steel Corporation - Scunthorpe Steelworks - The Four Queens - Appleby Blast Furnaces on 23rd February 1988

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The furnaces were built for the Appleby Frodingham Steel Company (United Steels). 'Queen Victoria' and 'Queen Anne' in 1954 - 'Queen Mary' and 'Queen Bess' in 1938.

British Steel Redcar Steelworks (BSC Teesside) - Hudwell Clarke 0-4-0ST 'Mirvale' (Works No 1882/1955) and Peckett 0-4-0ST 'Lion' (Works No 1351/1914) haul a retired 370 ton molten steel torpedo away from the Blast Furnace on the Hot Metal Road during a FTP photo charter on 19th October 1996
Dominated by the 367 foot high Blast furnace - 'Mirvale' and Lion are heading away from the molten steel tapping bay. This occasion was organised by Freight Train Productions in collaboration with BSC Staff and Foxfield & Middleton Railways.
Very much an unrepeatable scene sadly!
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British Steel Shelton Bar Steelworks - WG Bagnall 0-4-0ST 'Hawarden' (Works No 2623 / 1940) shunts loaded girder bogies in the yard near the Rod Mill during a Freight Train Productions (FTP) charter event on 18th March 1995. The locomotive was visiting from Foxfield Railway.
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Standard Type 1, 0-6-0, outside cylinder, tank locomotive, No.2, built by the Yorkshire Engine Company Ltd, Meadowhall Works, Sheffield, in 1954, is seen here, at the United Coke and Chemicals Limited, (later British Steel Corporation, Chemicals Division), Coke Ovens and By-Products Works, at Orgreave, on 22/02/1959. Driver appears to be Frank Taylor.

Locomotive, No.2, was built by the Yorkshire Engine Company Ltd, Meadowhall Works, Sheffield, to Works No.2562, in 1954, and delivered, new to the United Coke and Chemicals Limited, Orgreave Coke Ovens and By-Products Works, the same year.

It was one of three such locomotives delivered to United Coke and Chemicals Limited, a subsidiary of United Steel Companies Limited, the other two locomotives being YE.2524/1952, and YE.2573/1955, the latter being a variant on the standard design. The Standard Type 1 locomotive was built to a United Steel Companies Limited specification and it had 16in by 24in cylinders and 3ft 8in diameter wheels. Weight was about 50 tons. YE.2524/1952 was transferred to the United Steel Companies Limited, Exton Ironstone Quarries, in February 1961, where it was initially designated as No.13, and latterly designated as No.1354, and where, I believe it was subsequently scrapped some years later. I also understand that following its transfer to Exton that it was to retain its original U.C.C. Ltd lettering and livery for some time.

Although covered van traffic was not the ‘common fare’ of the U.C.C. Ltd traffic department, such workings were not as rare as one might think. Although the receipt and despatch of coal and coke traffic was very much the ‘bread and butter’ of the department, many of the by-products of the coal carbonisation process, were despatched from site, in multiply sacks, in bulk rail tanks and in drums, (for example, crystalline by-products such as anthracene and naphthalene were packaged and despatched in multiply sacks), and so, covered rail vans were very much required for the handling of these materials.

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Standard Type 1, 0-6-0, outside cylinder, tank locomotive, No.2, built by the Yorkshire Engine Company Ltd, Meadowhall Works, Sheffield, in 1954, poses in front of the Shunters’ Cabin, adjoining the Bottom Weigh Office, at the United Coke and Chemicals Limited, (later British Steel Corporation, Chemicals Division), Coke Ovens and By-Products Works, at Orgreave, on 22/02/1959. Traffic Department staff, from left to right, Frank Taylor, Hiram Wells, and Tommy Williamson, share the moment.

Locomotive, No.2, was built by the Yorkshire Engine Company Ltd, Meadowhall Works, Sheffield, to Works No.2562, in 1954, and delivered, new to the United Coke and Chemicals Limited, Orgreave Coke Ovens and By-Products Works, the same year.

It was one of three such locomotives delivered to United Coke and Chemicals Limited, a subsidiary of United Steel Companies Limited, the other two locomotives being YE.2524/1952, and YE.2573/1955, the latter being a variant on the standard design. The Standard Type 1 locomotive was built to a United Steel Companies Limited specification and it had 16in by 24in cylinders and 3ft 8in diameter wheels. Weight was about 50 tons. YE.2524/1952 was transferred to the United Steel Companies Limited, Exton Ironstone Quarries, in February 1961, where it was initially designated as No.13, and latterly designated as No.1354, and where, I believe it was subsequently scrapped some years later. I also understand that following its transfer to Exton that it was to retain its original U.C.C. Ltd lettering and livery for some time.

COPYRIGHT RETAINED; N. JORDAN - I would ask that you please note that the copyright of this image is fully retained by N. Jordan. Should you wish to either copy this image, for anything other than for private research purposes, or you wish to reproduce and publish this image elsewhere, then I would be obliged, if you would be good enough to seek and secure my express written agreement beforehand.

British Steel Corporation (BSC) Shelton Bar Steelworks - Industrial 0-4-0ST's Robert Heath & Sons No 6 (1886) and WG Bagnall 'Hawarden' (2623/1940) await further shunting duties outside the 32" Rolling Mill during the Freight Train Productions (FTP) Charter on 18th March 1996 (Copyright Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved)
All trace of this location has long gone....!

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BSC's Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-6-0ST No 22 (RSH 6944/1940) at the former Stewart & Lloys steelworks at Corby - c.1971.

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BR 24T "Dogfish" ballast hopper DB993115 (Chas Roberts 1956, Diag 1/588, Lot 2821) at Clugston Slag Reduction facility, BSC Appleby-Frodingham, Scunthorpe - c.1968.

This vehicle has been modified with higher sides for Slag traffic, sometimes referred to as "hungry or greedy boards".

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BR 24T "Dogfish" ballast hopper DB993207 (Chas Roberts 1957, Diag 1/588, Lot 2822) at Clugston Slag Reduction facility, BSC Appleby-Frodingham, Scunthorpe - c.1968.

I believe this vehicle has been modified (higher) sides for Slag traffic, sometimes referred to as "greedy boards" and was consequently uprated from 19.5T capacity to 24T when carrying Slag.

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BR 40.5T "Walrus" ballast hopper DB992507 (Metropolitan-Cammell 1952, Diag 1/585, Lot 2411) at Clugston Slag Reduction facility, BSC Appleby-Frodingham, Scunthorpe - c.1968.

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BR 19T "Catfish" ballast hopper DB992692 (Metropolitan-Cammell 1955, Diag 1/586, Lot 2775) at Clugston Slag Reduction facility, BSC Appleby-Frodingham, Scunthorpe - c.1968.

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Clugston Slag's Yorkshire Engine Company 0-6-0DE "Lincolnshire Poacher" (YE 2631/1957) shunting BR ballast hoppers at the Slag Reduction facility, BSC Appleby-Frodingham, Scunthorpe - c.1968.

The diesel-shunter was new to Clugston Slag on 26//02/1957 and continued to work at Scunthorpe until October 1983 when it was sold to J Potts of Grimsby. It is believed to have been scrapped in January 1990.

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