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The loaded 6E91 Hope - Dewsbury cement passes through Meadowhall worked by 66617.

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31277 & 275 (both TE) - 6E91 (???? TThO? Heysham Moss - Haverton Hill, which consisted of a barrier vehicle, c20 discharged TTAs, another barrier vehicle & a Brake Van on the rear, due to the dangerous in the consist) - Leeds - c1530 - 08/09/83.

6E91 Southampton - Leeds ???

Passing through Meadowhall . 70002 is running on the earlier loaded Hope - Dewsbury cement , headcode of 6E91 .

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The 6E91 Hope - Dewsbury loaded cement train passes through Meadowhall .

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* 216Mby MP4 phone Video. WITH THE WIND REMOVED AND CALMING SOUNDTRACK ADDED!!
* Part Two, taken just before leaving on Sunday, it is 1min 49s long, so video can be watched within the Flickr interface.

Back on Sunday 15th November for more shots of the progress which has been made since the early morning, Wednesday 11th November, derailment of a freight train, traversing the rails along platform 1, one of the main passenger platform for main and local down, away from London, trains. A heavy cement train from Castleton, Earles' Sidings in the Hope Valley, had derailed on exiting from the station along platform 1 at around 02:45 that morning. It was the 6E91 working to Dewsbury Blue Circle, with Freightliner class 66, 66603, at the front hauling a rake of 34 full PCA tank wagons, 16 of which had derailed with one having turned over completely; this is the one standing right at the end of platform 1, seen in the videos seen here. The video is in two parts, the first 20 shots are those from the 11th, 8 of which were show as still pictures here-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50590200841/
and here-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50590200516/
At that time, late morning, a lot of Network Rail staff were present and were having a 'jolly good look' at the situation presented to them, now 8 hours after the event took place; Freightliner 66603 was at the front and halted on the Nunnery Main Junction and visible below in the hole in the Broad Street tunnel. Serendipitously, a blue/red striped cement truck passes along Sheaf Street right next to the toppled PCA wagon, the driver presumably blithely unaware of what was happening to his material, over the other side of the wall! The second part, the still taken last Sunday morning in very windy, but warmish conditions for the time of year, shows the progress made in 4 days and, more to the point, the mess which was made by such a relatively minor/moderate mishap. In addition, it appears that this set of points were replaced quite recently and there is a 10m.p.h. speed limit for passes along the line into the Shrewsbury Road tunnels; the R.A.I.B. will be looking at this as well as other aspects to determine what caused the incident and the ensuing disruption to passenger and other freight services which had to be cancelled or re-routed in the area for the rest of last week. The views here aptly demonstrate the kind of 'hands-on', heavy industrial type work, which has to be carried out in any weather or conditions and with the ever presence of danger close by. I personally feel it is to the Rail Network's credit that this is performed in a timely, serious, considered manner and any complaining which is done, and I have ready some about the speed at which clearance has taken place, should just step-back and look at what is involved for the best and safe outcome. The rails were replaced to a large extent by yesterday, so I understand, I haven't been back to look, but that's a week of whole and partial disruption, no-one being injured or killed and with the minimum of fuss about how good B.R. was; the past is a different country! Following this on the next day or so, both halves of the wagons which were still on the rails, one set at the front behind the lead loco, 66603 and another set at the back, sat along platform one, were disconnected leaving the centre section of derailed wagons with one toppled over, in-situ. The rear ones, maybe around 12, were taken back to Earles Sidings using a light engine move from there to connect up to the rear and move the undamaged set away back along the Hope Valley. The re-railed ones remaining were eventually also moved and were shunted into the Station Washer sidings and can these be seen in the video in two short rakes right, about 7 in all, next to the Shrewsbury Road tunnels. The front section, maybe 8 or 9, full PCAs, eventually continued on their designated path to the Blue Circle Cement Works at Dewsbury. The depressed centre PCA Bulk Cement wagons, tare weight is around 13 tonnes and when filled with 37 tonnes of material results in the toppled tank wagon, #10756, weighing around 50 tonnes, so 37 tonnes of cement had to be pumped out before the wagon could be moved, the timing load for this move was 2000 tonnes. By Tuesday this week, all looked normal(ish) on the track diagram and services appeared to be coming and going including the normal reversal on US1, Up Slow 1, between platforms 5 and 6 of the Tuesday RHTT, 3S12 inwards and 3S13, the diagram to Gainsborough back out. Last Wednesday, due to the stop on traffic into the station, the RHTT ran a series of 3Zxx workings, the early morning run, 3Z11, from York Thrall, reversing in the Brightside Sidings and then heading back out, 3Z12, on a circular route north and back to Woodburn Junction where, for the first, and only, time it came along the Stocksbridge Branch to give the rails up there a bit of a clean. See these, first at Neepsend on the way north-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50597380742/
and then back south at Wharncliffe Wood, the right-hand shot-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50597255081/
The bright and very breezy Sunday produced some very colourful shots both outside and inside on the station platforms where access, with adherence to the Covid-19 rules was in place, thankfully, was un-stressful, though there were hardly any folk about other than the occasional dozen or so getting off the Intercity services on platform 8. The high reach crane, brought in and parked on Sheaf Street where the road was under a closure all day Sunday, looks to be taking charge of the heavy ironmongery shifting, bringing in sleepers, track panels ans other stuff, over the Sheaf Street Wall. As has been pointed out, the River Sheaf flows beneath the station here in a large culvert and it actually passes under near where the derailment took place. Some investigation will presumably reveal it wasn't a collapse of any part of this which caused the track to buckle and the wagons to hit the ballast, one more dramatically than the rest! There were various parked up sets of Northern stock, a class 195, 195024 on Up Slow 2, class 170, 170476 on Up Slow 1, a class 153, 153317, on Down Slow 2 and class 195 on Down Slow 1, seen from the footbridge and a class 153, 153331, in the Washer Sidings next to the parked up PCA tanks. A couple of passenger moves also came and went, the first was an East Midland Railways HST set arriving from the north and coming in slowly, it had just traversed the Sheaf Street Tunnel, along platform 6 to pause for passengers, this was the 1C43, Leeds via Sheffield Platform 6 to St. Pancras International passenger service with 43314 at the front and 43316 at the back; a rainbow illuminates the top floor of the Parkhill Flats in the background and scrap material can be seen in the spent waste train wagons in the foreground. The shot looking over to platform 8 was the rear of the EMR train comes into view, sees Northern class 170, 170476 on the Up Slow 1 line, the EMR rear power car, 43316 and poking out behind the 'Sheffield' running in board, a Northern class 158, 158861 on platform 8 awaits passage out of the station to the east on the 2P14 service to Lincoln Central, usually using the lower numbered platforms, it has been forced to use 1 of the only 2 in service, 6 and 8. Freightliner 66953 is thrumming away on bay platform 3A with its train of spoil and a light engine move, 66601, will come in later to haul the whole north to Doncaster on the 6Y75, Sheffield to Doncaster Down Decoy spent materials train. Having grabbed as many shots on the station site which I deemed appropriate it was time to move off and so, leaving the station I walked back alongside the high wall, finally standing on the step-ladder and poking the camera over the wall at the Tram stop near the station covered footbridge. Grabbing what was thought to be the last 2 or 3 shots, a complete surprise came along in the form of an orange/yellow Colas loco, having not bothered to see what was on offer that morning, I had no idea that the late running, fortunately by 90 minutes at the outset, 'MENTOR' test train was in the area and would be passing through and set to be held for 20 minutes at Sheffield's S0077 signal just outside the station. In the event it picked up some time on the way up from Derby and arrived outside the station 48 minutes late, but then wasn't held at the signal and passed along platform 8 at 11:49. This is the 'canary yellow, 'MENTOR', 'Mobile Electrical Network Testing, Observation and Recording' train with Colas class 67, 67027, 'Charlotte' at the front and 67023, 'Stella' at the rear; the next 7 shots show the progress of this, slowly along platform 8 on the 1Q19, Derby R.T.C. to Heaton T&R.S.M.D. working. Jolly glad it set off 101 minutes late or else I wouldn't have been here to see this, which I haven't done for a long time. Just as it is passing into the Sheaf Street tunnels, a Sheffield Supertram rattles past on the tracks outside the station, this one, unit #101, heading to Malin Bridge from Herdings Park. The final traction move appears just as the Ainscough crane prepares to hoist some new railhead over the wall, heading from the north through the right portal of the Sheaf Street Tunnels and heading along platform 8, just after the Colas Rail test train cleared out of the way, is a Cross Country Trains class 220, 220018 at the front with class 221, 221128 at the back on the 13 station stop, 5 hours, 1V54, Newcastle via Sheffield Platform 8 to Bristol Temple Meads passenger service. The final shot shows the new rail having been secured and its now on its way to form a new section of the damaged track from derailed freight train last Wednesday in the early hours of the morning.

** TEXT NOW UPLOADED

* 197Mby MP4 phone Video
* Part Two, taken just before leaving on Sunday and is very noisy due to buffeting wind... it is 1min 49s long, so video can be watched within the Flickr interface.

Back on Sunday 15th November for more shots of the progress which has been made since the early morning, Wednesday 11th November, derailment of a freight train, traversing the rails along platform 1, one of the main passenger platform for main and local down, away from London, trains. A heavy cement train from Castleton, Earles' Sidings in the Hope Valley, had derailed on exiting from the station along platform 1 at around 02:45 that morning. It was the 6E91 working to Dewsbury Blue Circle, with Freightliner class 66, 66603, at the front hauling a rake of 34 full PCA tank wagons, 16 of which had derailed with one having turned over completely; this is the one standing right at the end of platform 1, seen in the videos seen here. The video is in two parts, the first 20 shots are those from the 11th, 8 of which were show as still pictures here-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50590200841/
and here-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50590200516/
At that time, late morning, a lot of Network Rail staff were present and were having a 'jolly good look' at the situation presented to them, now 8 hours after the event took place; Freightliner 66603 was at the front and halted on the Nunnery Main Junction and visible below in the hole in the Broad Street tunnel. Serendipitously, a blue/red striped cement truck passes along Sheaf Street right next to the toppled PCA wagon, the driver presumably blithely unaware of what was happening to his material, over the other side of the wall! The second part, the still taken last Sunday morning in very windy, but warmish conditions for the time of year, shows the progress made in 4 days and, more to the point, the mess which was made by such a relatively minor/moderate mishap. In addition, it appears that this set of points were replaced quite recently and there is a 10m.p.h. speed limit for passes along the line into the Shrewsbury Road tunnels; the R.A.I.B. will be looking at this as well as other aspects to determine what caused the incident and the ensuing disruption to passenger and other freight services which had to be cancelled or re-routed in the area for the rest of last week. The views here aptly demonstrate the kind of 'hands-on', heavy industrial type work, which has to be carried out in any weather or conditions and with the ever presence of danger close by. I personally feel it is to the Rail Network's credit that this is performed in a timely, serious, considered manner and any complaining which is done, and I have ready some about the speed at which clearance has taken place, should just step-back and look at what is involved for the best and safe outcome. The rails were replaced to a large extent by yesterday, so I understand, I haven't been back to look, but that's a week of whole and partial disruption, no-one being injured or killed and with the minimum of fuss about how good B.R. was; the past is a different country! Following this on the next day or so, both halves of the wagons which were still on the rails, one set at the front behind the lead loco, 66603 and another set at the back, sat along platform one, were disconnected leaving the centre section of derailed wagons with one toppled over, in-situ. The rear ones, maybe around 12, were taken back to Earles Sidings using a light engine move from there to connect up to the rear and move the undamaged set away back along the Hope Valley. The re-railed ones remaining were eventually also moved and were shunted into the Station Washer sidings and can these be seen in the video in two short rakes right, about 7 in all, next to the Shrewsbury Road tunnels. The front section, maybe 8 or 9, full PCAs, eventually continued on their designated path to the Blue Circle Cement Works at Dewsbury. The depressed centre PCA Bulk Cement wagons, tare weight is around 13 tonnes and when filled with 37 tonnes of material results in the toppled tank wagon, #10756, weighing around 50 tonnes, so 37 tonnes of cement had to be pumped out before the wagon could be moved, the timing load for this move was 2000 tonnes. By Tuesday this week, all looked normal(ish) on the track diagram and services appeared to be coming and going including the normal reversal on US1, Up Slow 1, between platforms 5 and 6 of the Tuesday RHTT, 3S12 inwards and 3S13, the diagram to Gainsborough back out. Last Wednesday, due to the stop on traffic into the station, the RHTT ran a series of 3Zxx workings, the early morning run, 3Z11, from York Thrall, reversing in the Brightside Sidings and then heading back out, 3Z12, on a circular route north and back to Woodburn Junction where, for the first, and only, time it came along the Stocksbridge Branch to give the rails up there a bit of a clean. See these, first at Neepsend on the way north-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50597380742/
and then back south at Wharncliffe Wood, the right-hand shot-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50597255081/
The bright and very breezy Sunday produced some very colourful shots both outside and inside on the station platforms where access, with adherence to the Covid-19 rules was in place, thankfully, was un-stressful, though there were hardly any folk about other than the occasional dozen or so getting off the Intercity services on platform 8. The high reach crane, brought in and parked on Sheaf Street where the road was under a closure all day Sunday, looks to be taking charge of the heavy ironmongery shifting, bringing in sleepers, track panels ans other stuff, over the Sheaf Street Wall. As has been pointed out, the River Sheaf flows beneath the station here in a large culvert and it actually passes under near where the derailment took place. Some investigation will presumably reveal it wasn't a collapse of any part of this which caused the track to buckle and the wagons to hit the ballast, one more dramatically than the rest! There were various parked up sets of Northern stock, a class 195, 195024 on Up Slow 2, class 170, 170476 on Up Slow 1, a class 153, 153317, on Down Slow 2 and class 195 on Down Slow 1, seen from the footbridge and a class 153, 153331, in the Washer Sidings next to the parked up PCA tanks. A couple of passenger moves also came and went, the first was an East Midland Railways HST set arriving from the north and coming in slowly, it had just traversed the Sheaf Street Tunnel, along platform 6 to pause for passengers, this was the 1C43, Leeds via Sheffield Platform 6 to St. Pancras International passenger service with 43314 at the front and 43316 at the back; a rainbow illuminates the top floor of the Parkhill Flats in the background and scrap material can be seen in the spent waste train wagons in the foreground. The shot looking over to platform 8 was the rear of the EMR train comes into view, sees Northern class 170, 170476 on the Up Slow 1 line, the EMR rear power car, 43316 and poking out behind the 'Sheffield' running in board, a Northern class 158, 158861 on platform 8 awaits passage out of the station to the east on the 2P14 service to Lincoln Central, usually using the lower numbered platforms, it has been forced to use 1 of the only 2 in service, 6 and 8. Freightliner 66953 is thrumming away on bay platform 3A with its train of spoil and a light engine move, 66601, will come in later to haul the whole north to Doncaster on the 6Y75, Sheffield to Doncaster Down Decoy spent materials train. Having grabbed as many shots on the station site which I deemed appropriate it was time to move off and so, leaving the station I walked back alongside the high wall, finally standing on the step-ladder and poking the camera over the wall at the Tram stop near the station covered footbridge. Grabbing what was thought to be the last 2 or 3 shots, a complete surprise came along in the form of an orange/yellow Colas loco, having not bothered to see what was on offer that morning, I had no idea that the late running, fortunately by 90 minutes at the outset, 'MENTOR' test train was in the area and would be passing through and set to be held for 20 minutes at Sheffield's S0077 signal just outside the station. In the event it picked up some time on the way up from Derby and arrived outside the station 48 minutes late, but then wasn't held at the signal and passed along platform 8 at 11:49. This is the 'canary yellow, 'MENTOR', 'Mobile Electrical Network Testing, Observation and Recording' train with Colas class 67, 67027, 'Charlotte' at the front and 67023, 'Stella' at the rear; the next 7 shots show the progress of this, slowly along platform 8 on the 1Q19, Derby R.T.C. to Heaton T&R.S.M.D. working. Jolly glad it set off 101 minutes late or else I wouldn't have been here to see this, which I haven't done for a long time. Just as it is passing into the Sheaf Street tunnels, a Sheffield Supertram rattles past on the tracks outside the station, this one, unit #101, heading to Malin Bridge from Herdings Park. The final traction move appears just as the Ainscough crane prepares to hoist some new railhead over the wall, heading from the north through the right portal of the Sheaf Street Tunnels and heading along platform 8, just after the Colas Rail test train cleared out of the way, is a Cross Country Trains class 220, 220018 at the front with class 221, 221128 at the back on the 13 station stop, 5 hours, 1V54, Newcastle via Sheffield Platform 8 to Bristol Temple Meads passenger service. The final shot shows the new rail having been secured and its now on its way to form a new section of the damaged track from derailed freight train last Wednesday in the early hours of the morning.

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* 192Mby MP4, stills Video
* Part Two, a 6 mins 20sec video showing the scenes around Sheffield Midland Station on Wednesday 11th & Sunday, 15th November, during the Network Rail recovery works, ongoing since the afternoon of last Wednesday ..
** NB: As this is longer than the fixed 3 minute viewing in the Flickr interface, the Video must be downloaded to the desktop to see the full length. Right-click on the down-arrow option, the last of the three options to the lower right of the video frame. Select 'Save-As', to Desktop or folder, and view...

** It has just come to my notice (10/12/23) that the Download option below and to the right of the media _does not_ allow you to download the full version, only the 3 minutes available here. So, I am going to try and 'fix' this for all videos lasting more than 3 minutes, this is the link to obtain the full version shown here-
www.flickr.tightfitz.com/Video/Sheffield_Midland_Freight_...

Back on Sunday 15th November for more shots of the progress which has been made since the early morning, Wednesday 11th November, derailment of a freight train, traversing the rails along platform 1, one of the main passenger platform for main and local down, away from London, trains. A heavy cement train from Castleton, Earles' Sidings in the Hope Valley, had derailed on exiting from the station along platform 1 at around 02:45 that morning. It was the 6E91 working to Dewsbury Blue Circle, with Freightliner class 66, 66603, at the front hauling a rake of 34 full PCA tank wagons, 16 of which had derailed with one having turned over completely; this is the one standing right at the end of platform 1, seen in the videos seen here. The video is in two parts, the first 20 shots are those from the 11th, 8 of which were show as still pictures here-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50590200841/
and here-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50590200516/
At that time, late morning, a lot of Network Rail staff were present and were having a 'jolly good look' at the situation presented to them, now 8 hours after the event took place; Freightliner 66603 was at the front and halted on the Nunnery Main Junction and visible below in the hole in the Broad Street tunnel. Serendipitously, a blue/red striped cement truck passes along Sheaf Street right next to the toppled PCA wagon, the driver presumably blithely unaware of what was happening to his material, over the other side of the wall! The second part, the still taken last Sunday morning in very windy, but warmish conditions for the time of year, shows the progress made in 4 days and, more to the point, the mess which was made by such a relatively minor/moderate mishap. In addition, it appears that this set of points were replaced quite recently and there is a 10m.p.h. speed limit for passes along the line into the Shrewsbury Road tunnels; the R.A.I.B. will be looking at this as well as other aspects to determine what caused the incident and the ensuing disruption to passenger and other freight services which had to be cancelled or re-routed in the area for the rest of last week. The views here aptly demonstrate the kind of 'hands-on', heavy industrial type work, which has to be carried out in any weather or conditions and with the ever presence of danger close by. I personally feel it is to the Rail Network's credit that this is performed in a timely, serious, considered manner and any complaining which is done, and I have ready some about the speed at which clearance has taken place, should just step-back and look at what is involved for the best and safe outcome. The rails were replaced to a large extent by yesterday, so I understand, I haven't been back to look, but that's a week of whole and partial disruption, no-one being injured or killed and with the minimum of fuss about how good B.R. was; the past is a different country! Following this on the next day or so, both halves of the wagons which were still on the rails, one set at the front behind the lead loco, 66603 and another set at the back, sat along platform one, were disconnected leaving the centre section of derailed wagons with one toppled over, in-situ. The rear ones, maybe around 12, were taken back to Earles Sidings using a light engine move from there to connect up to the rear and move the undamaged set away back along the Hope Valley. The re-railed ones remaining were eventually also moved and were shunted into the Station Washer sidings and can these be seen in the video in two short rakes right, about 7 in all, next to the Shrewsbury Road tunnels. The front section, maybe 8 or 9, full PCAs, eventually continued on their designated path to the Blue Circle Cement Works at Dewsbury. The depressed centre PCA Bulk Cement wagons, tare weight is around 13 tonnes and when filled with 37 tonnes of material results in the toppled tank wagon, #10756, weighing around 50 tonnes, so 37 tonnes of cement had to be pumped out before the wagon could be moved, the timing load for this move was 2000 tonnes. By Tuesday this week, all looked normal(ish) on the track diagram and services appeared to be coming and going including the normal reversal on US1, Up Slow 1, between platforms 5 and 6 of the Tuesday RHTT, 3S12 inwards and 3S13, the diagram to Gainsborough back out. Last Wednesday, due to the stop on traffic into the station, the RHTT ran a series of 3Zxx workings, the early morning run, 3Z11, from York Thrall, reversing in the Brightside Sidings and then heading back out, 3Z12, on a circular route north and back to Woodburn Junction where, for the first, and only, time it came along the Stocksbridge Branch to give the rails up there a bit of a clean. See these, first at Neepsend on the way north-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50597380742/
and then back south at Wharncliffe Wood, the right-hand shot-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50597255081/
The bright and very breezy Sunday produced some very colourful shots both outside and inside on the station platforms where access, with adherence to the Covid-19 rules was in place, thankfully, was un-stressful, though there were hardly any folk about other than the occasional dozen or so getting off the Intercity services on platform 8. The high reach crane, brought in and parked on Sheaf Street where the road was under a closure all day Sunday, looks to be taking charge of the heavy ironmongery shifting, bringing in sleepers, track panels ans other stuff, over the Sheaf Street Wall. As has been pointed out, the River Sheaf flows beneath the station here in a large culvert and it actually passes under near where the derailment took place. Some investigation will presumably reveal it wasn't a collapse of any part of this which caused the track to buckle and the wagons to hit the ballast, one more dramatically than the rest! There were various parked up sets of Northern stock, a class 195, 195024 on Up Slow 2, class 170, 170476 on Up Slow 1, a class 153, 153317, on Down Slow 2 and class 195 on Down Slow 1, seen from the footbridge and a class 153, 153331, in the Washer Sidings next to the parked up PCA tanks. A couple of passenger moves also came and went, the first was an East Midland Railways HST set arriving from the north and coming in slowly, it had just traversed the Sheaf Street Tunnel, along platform 6 to pause for passengers, this was the 1C43, Leeds via Sheffield Platform 6 to St. Pancras International passenger service with 43314 at the front and 43316 at the back; a rainbow illuminates the top floor of the Parkhill Flats in the background and scrap material can be seen in the spent waste train wagons in the foreground. The shot looking over to platform 8 was the rear of the EMR train comes into view, sees Northern class 170, 170476 on the Up Slow 1 line, the EMR rear power car, 43316 and poking out behind the 'Sheffield' running in board, a Northern class 158, 158861 on platform 8 awaits passage out of the station to the east on the 2P14 service to Lincoln Central, usually using the lower numbered platforms, it has been forced to use 1 of the only 2 in service, 6 and 8. Freightliner 66953 is thrumming away on bay platform 3A with its train of spoil and a light engine move, 66601, will come in later to haul the whole north to Doncaster on the 6Y75, Sheffield to Doncaster Down Decoy spent materials train. Having grabbed as many shots on the station site which I deemed appropriate it was time to move off and so, leaving the station I walked back alongside the high wall, finally standing on the step-ladder and poking the camera over the wall at the Tram stop near the station covered footbridge. Grabbing what was thought to be the last 2 or 3 shots, a complete surprise came along in the form of an orange/yellow Colas loco, having not bothered to see what was on offer that morning, I had no idea that the late running, fortunately by 90 minutes at the outset, 'MENTOR' test train was in the area and would be passing through and set to be held for 20 minutes at Sheffield's S0077 signal just outside the station. In the event it picked up some time on the way up from Derby and arrived outside the station 48 minutes late, but then wasn't held at the signal and passed along platform 8 at 11:49. This is the 'canary yellow, 'MENTOR', 'Mobile Electrical Network Testing, Observation and Recording' train with Colas class 67, 67027, 'Charlotte' at the front and 67023, 'Stella' at the rear; the next 7 shots show the progress of this, slowly along platform 8 on the 1Q19, Derby R.T.C. to Heaton T&R.S.M.D. working. Jolly glad it set off 101 minutes late or else I wouldn't have been here to see this, which I haven't done for a long time. Just as it is passing into the Sheaf Street tunnels, a Sheffield Supertram rattles past on the tracks outside the station, this one, unit #101, heading to Malin Bridge from Herdings Park. The final traction move appears just as the Ainscough crane prepares to hoist some new railhead over the wall, heading from the north through the right portal of the Sheaf Street Tunnels and heading along platform 8, just after the Colas Rail test train cleared out of the way, is a Cross Country Trains class 220, 220018 at the front with class 221, 221128 at the back on the 13 station stop, 5 hours, 1V54, Newcastle via Sheffield Platform 8 to Bristol Temple Meads passenger service. The final shot shows the new rail having been secured and its now on its way to form a new section of the damaged track from derailed freight train last Wednesday in the early hours of the morning.

Recovery work continuing in Sheffield station on the afternoon of Saturday 14/11/2020 after a cement train derailed earlier in the week.

66588 ticks over coupled to some of the recovered wagons of 6E91 while 66953 is just visible at the blocks on bay platform 3 with a rake of ballast flats.

Thanks to Liz for sending me the picture.

Well, what can I say, woke up to early morning mayhem as the track diagram revealed a plethora of the 'UNIT' words in most of the signal positions around Sheffield Midland, indicating that services were probably stuck. The 'grapevine' soon revealed that a heavy cement train from Castleton, Earles' Sidings in the Hope Valley had derailed on exiting from the station along platform 1 at around 02:45 this morning. It was the 6E91 working to Dewsbury Blue Circle, with Freightliner class 66, 66603, at the front hauling a rake of 34 full PCA tank wagons, 16 of which had derailed with one having turned over completely. It looks like the latter is at the points where the lines join to head through the Sheaf Street tunnels at the north end of the station, this all then resulting in an almost complete closure of the station to through services. One of the shots here shows one of East Midland Railway's services, 1C40, with class 222, 'Meridian', 222103, awaiting return back to London St. Pancras, from Sheffield's platform 8, there being no change of platform, as is the usually case, from 5 to 8, using a reversal at Woodburn Junction, as the exit to the north now being blocked. Two Northern Rail units are sat on the lines on platform 3B, 170467 and 150276, on platform 3B, the local services platform for the north. Trains from Liverpool LIme Street to Norwich, which usually reverse here, were being sent straight along the Dore Cure to the south, off the Hope Valley Line, missing out Sheffield. As Manchester to Sheffield services terminate at southern bay platform, NO.7, they were running as normal with TPE units from the north being allowed through the station onto platform 8, cautiously now, at 14:30, to head to Manchester along the Hope Valley. It also looks like the Intercity Meridian ECS services, which reverse at Woodburn, are also now being allowed to do this as I can see one, 5C55, waiting at Woodburn on the track diagram. There is also a Northern service, 1Y19, with class 158, 158796, from Leeds, waiting just outside the station to head into it; platforms 1-5 are all out of use with police present to keep passengers away. In the top right of the first set of pictures, a Cemex cement mixer passes by the stricken PCA tank train, prosaic or what! At lower right in this set, the damage to the infra-structure can be seen where the two lines out of the station join at points before the Sheaf Street Tunnel. This looks like its going to take a while to clear away and repair and I wouldn't be surprised if this all extends beyond tomorrow!

Well, what can I say, woke up to early morning mayhem as the track diagram revealed a plethora of the 'UNIT' words in most of the signal positions around Sheffield Midland, indicating that services were probably stuck. The 'grapevine' soon revealed that a heavy cement train from Castleton, Earles' Sidings in the Hope Valley had derailed on exiting from the station along platform 1 at around 02:45 this morning. It was the 6E91 working to Dewsbury Blue Circle, with Freightliner class 66, 66603, at the front hauling a rake of 34 full PCA tank wagons, 16 of which had derailed with one having turned over completely. It looks like the latter is at the points where the lines join to head through the Sheaf Street tunnels at the north end of the station, this all then resulting in an almost complete closure of the station to through services. One of the shots here shows one of East Midland Railway's services, 1C40, with class 222, 'Meridian', 222103, awaiting return back to London St. Pancras, from Sheffield's platform 8, there being no change of platform, as is the usually case, from 5 to 8, using a reversal at Woodburn Junction, as the exit to the north now being blocked. Two Northern Rail units are sat on the lines on platform 3B, 170467 and 150276, on platform 3B, the local services platform for the north. Trains from Liverpool LIme Street to Norwich, which usually reverse here, were being sent straight along the Dore Cure to the south, off the Hope Valley Line, missing out Sheffield. As Manchester to Sheffield services terminate at southern bay platform, NO.7, they were running as normal with TPE units from the north being allowed through the station onto platform 8, cautiously now, at 14:30, to head to Manchester along the Hope Valley. It also looks like the Intercity Meridian ECS services, which reverse at Woodburn, are also now being allowed to do this as I can see one, 5C55, waiting at Woodburn on the track diagram. There is also a Northern service, 1Y19, with class 158, 158796, from Leeds, waiting just outside the station to head into it; platforms 1-5 are all out of use with police present to keep passengers away. In the top right of the first set of pictures, a Cemex cement mixer passes by the stricken PCA tank train, prosaic or what! At lower right in this set, the damage to the infra-structure can be seen where the two lines out of the station join at points before the Sheaf Street Tunnel. This looks like its going to take a while to clear away and repair and I wouldn't be surprised if this all extends beyond tomorrow!

Thirsk: heading north with 6E91 ICI tanks from Heysham Moss Bay to Haverton Hill 10/04/1985

Leeds: waiting the road with 6E91 11:26 Heysham Moss Sidings to Haverton Hill ICI tanks 29/05/1982.

Scanned from negative.

York: heading north on the station avoiding line with 6E91 11:26 Heysham Moss Sidings to Haverton Hill ICI (Teeside) 04/09/1982.

Rescanned from negative.

With dramatic clouds over Dent Dale, DBSchenker's Class 66, No.66094 has avoided the heavy shower and is pictured trundling over the 10 arch, 100ft high Dent Head Viaduct and towards Blea Moor leading 6E91, the 03:52 Hunterston - West Burton loaded coal service.

The 2,323ft high Wild Boar Fell makes for the backdrop in this image of DBSchenker's Class 66, No.66204 toiling towards the camera at White Birch Cottage having just crested Ais Gill Summit.

The grubby '66' is hauling another consignment of coal over the roof of England working 6E91, the 03:52 Hunterston - West Burton service which comprises of a uniformed rake of 'EWS' liveried 'HTA' hoppers