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On 4 April 2001, 142022 leaves Middlesbrough on the 1610 to Beverley via York and Hull. Poor passengers!
Car number 55563 leads as Regional Railways Tyne and Wear PTE liveried 142022 arrives at Doncaster on 19/8/2000 working a Sheffield bound service.
55613 is nearest the camera as 142022 sits at Newcastle station's platform 8 on 17/9/1997 before working a Carlisle service.
We used to complain about the old Sunderland station but at least you could see daylight from it! On 20 May 1989 we see 142022 on the 1545 to Newcastle.
142016 + 142022 + 142025 at York on 5Z42 Heaton - Worksop on 29/11/19.
This is almost certainly their penultimate working on the mainline with either a trip to the srap yard or preservation to follow.
Northern Railways 142022 arrives at Crowle with 2P03 (09.40) Doncaster - Scunthorpe service on 2/11/18.
One from the 'Duchy' in September 1987 in which BR 'Skipper' unit 142 022 had just passed Bodmin Parkway station while working the Table 135 09:16 Newquay to Newton Abbot railbus service. These Leyland/BREL 2-car 'Pacer' Railbus units were delivered 1985-87 and the 13 Laira-based West Country examples were painted in chocolate and cream livery and marketed as 'Skippers'.
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There is only a limited amount of time left to enjoy the semaphores and boxes of the Hull to Selby route.
With modernisation taking place the fine displays of semaphores will soon be consigned to the history books.
In this shot from Gilberdyke footbridge I believe it's possible (just) to see four different boxes on the arrow straight stretch of line.
158905 approaches with a service to York whilst in the far distance 142022 can be seen with a stopping service to Hull.
8th March 2017.
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Sunday 29/05/1994 at Heaton Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Deport, Newcastle, and Class 142 Pacer DMU no. 142022 is one of at least three of the class seen stabled here. A lone Class 158 vehicle is parked behind.
One Of Northern's Much Despised Pacer Units 142022, Operates 2N20, The 10.57 Hexham to Danby Service Near Commondale.
Running through the North Devon countryside on a Summer evening, Class 142 'Skippers' 142022 & 142026 were approaching Umberleigh with an Exmouth to Barnstaple service on July 31st 1987. 142022 was amongst the first batch of 142's withdrawn by Northern in August 2019. The unit was scrapped by EMR at Kingsbury in December 2019.
The 142s when they were new and in use on the Cornish branches were not greatly received, know as Skippers in the West Country, their long wheelbase, 4 wheel chassis (derived from modern freight wagons) gave a lively and uncomfortably ride on the steeply graded and sharp corners of the Cornish byways. They also suffered from wheel wear problems and noise issues from the rail flanges.
Northern Rail Class 142/0 No. 142022 departs Platform 6 of Newcastle Station, working the 2W18, 08:32 Middlesbrough to Hexham service on 9th April 2015.
Work is well underway on the resignalling of the Ferriby to Gilberdyke section of the Hull to Selby line, with the infrastructure for new level crossings controls and colour light signals now in place.
Also on the endangered list is Pacer 142022. With Northern starting to receive class 158 and 170 units from ScotRail the writing is on the wall for the much maligned railbuses.
The old order is seen at Broomfleet (It already looks as if the signal box has had enough with it's distinct list away from the track), on the 8th March 2018.
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Northern Class 142 Pacer DMU's 142016, 142022 and 142025 are caught on camera for the very last time as they enter the yard of EMR at Kingsbury for scrapping. The units had worked under their own power for their last ever journey from Worksop, Nottinghamshire. This time last week another 3 classmates had made the same journey to meet the same fate!
A Happy 53rd Birthday Strawberry Super Full Moon for me at 10:44pm EST on June 13th. Moon is technically full at 7:51am EST on Jun 14th which is also my 25th wedding anniversary with my wife's birthday the following day on the 15th. So a happy week for us!!! Image was taken with a Canon T7i camera through my 12 inch Meade SCT scope. It is a composite of six image put together in Photoshop. ISO 400, 1/40sec exposure.
On 4 April 1998, 142022 passes the site of Floriston station on the 1041 Dumfries - Carlisle. These were the only (albeit irregular) Pacer workings into Scotland.
On a dull 22 February 2022, 142022 passes the site of Birtley station on the very late 0915 Saltburn - Newcastle.
142022 stops at Cramlington on the very short route between Metrocentre (Gateshead) and Morpeth, Northumberland. Saturday, December 19, 2015.
Bardon Mill signal box is situated a short distance to the west of Bardon Mill station. The box is a type NER N1 opened around 1874, and fitted with a 20 lever frame. The signal box is not normally manned with all the running signals pulled off for through working. The area still has semaphores.
Here 142022 trundles past the box towards Bardon Mill station on the 1st November 2015 with a lunchtime Carlisle - Newcastle service.
Devon & Cornwall 'Skipper' Class 142/0's 142026 & 142022 were approaching journeys end as they were arriving at Barnstaple with the 13.10 departure from Exeter Central on July 29th 1987.
The pair of 142's were part of the thirteen Devon & Cornwall 'Skippers' that went new to Plymouth Laira Depot in 1986 (142015-142027). They were all transferred North to Heaton & Newton Heath in 1988.
142026 was in service with Northern until December 2019, it spent some time stored at Gascoigne Wood Sidings, but was scrapped by Sims Metals at Newport in January 2020. 142022 was amongst the first batch of 142's withdrawn by Northern in August 2019 and was scrapped by EMR at Kingsbury in December 2019.
NOTE: This video is less than 3 minutes so ALL should be able to view and/or download the full clip.
In the first part, at the south end of the line where the Colliery Branch went off from the MSLR main line, was Rotherham Road signal box and junction and these will be featured in the video in geographic order. In the main, the 1st part shows traction pictures which were taken on three separate occasions, two in 2012, and one in 2016, and comprise a set of class 20, class 66 and class 56 freight moves and several class 142 and 144 Northern DMU moves; all these are to give a feel for the state of the line at the present time in addition to elements of the colliery branch mentioned in the narrative in the mosaic image which preceded this video. The freight moves in this first part were all taken facing north from the tow-path, with the track-bed of the old colliery branch on the left side of the canal. A B/W shot taken by Adrian Wynn, and not available anymore, was taken in 'the 1980s', and looks south from Mangham Road, the spire of the Church of All Saints in the centre of Rotherham visible in the background above the central rail in the road, with the cleared site of the South Yorkshire Chemical works on the right. The final clips in the first part shows two of the 'Then & Now' scenes, the first one showing, on the left, Adrian Booth's picture of the Diesel shunter featured once more, backing MGR coal wagons down to the sidings at Rotherham Road. On the right, my own picture of another kind of heavy goods carried on the railway, this time facing north as DCR, Devon & Cornwall Railway class 56, 56311, takes a haul of rusting MBA wagons along to the yards at Stockton from Chaddesden Sidings on the 6Z58 working; the Colliery Branch in this view being over on the right. The final clip in the first part shows the second of the 'Then & Now' scenes, this time back at the sidings at Rotherham Road where, on the left, another of Adrian Booth's excellent pictures, and used with permission, shows the MSLR's signal box with the main lines in front and the coal sidings over on the right. Diesel Shunter D1128 has now backed its rake of full MGR wagons into the sidings and is ready to unhook and return north to New Stubbin Colliery. In my own picture on the right, DRS class 20s, 20303 20301 'Max Joule 1958-1999' are in charge of the Autumn leaf fall clearance train and are on the Stocksbridge Works to York Thrall Europa, 3S14, leg of the days outing. The scene has obviously changed with the canal now having a 'turning hole', installed, in part, to allow large oil barges from off the Humber, to deposit their crude oil just along towards the back of the shot at the Rotherham Oil Terminal. Its 27 October 2012 and in my shot the RHTT is on the Tu/Thu/Sat working and, as per usual, is starting to look scruffy; as it did today on the passage to and from Sheffield but on the M/W/F move. The trackbed of the New Stubbin Colliery branch line is to the right of the train, the track-bed now just a greenway curving round to pass under an arch of the old Rotherham Road bridge, the cutting full of weeds and other material! Other clips in the first part, in order, are-
* DBC/EWS 66105 on the 6Z58, Briggs Sidings to Ferrybridge Power Station, carrying aggregates,
* Northern 142024 on the 2P65, Scunthorpe to Lincoln service, passing through heavy flooding,
* the branch under-bridge and another Northern unit, 144022 on the 2R15, Lincoln to Adwick service,
* the junction of the Greasbrough (Earl Fitzwilliam) canal with the S&SYN and another Northern unit, 144005, passing over the canal bridge, not a swing bridge anymore, the unit on the 2N25, Leeds to Sheffield service,
* DBC/EWS 66192 on the 6E31, Margam TC to Hartlepool BSC working, carrying steel strip,
* DCR 56311 heading north on the 6Z58, Chaddesden Sidings to Stockton Thomson working, carrying a load of scrap whilst DBC/EWS 66104 heads south on the 0J81, Doncaster LIP to Masbrough Freight Depot working,
* Freightliner 66528, 'Madge Elliot MBE, Borders Railway Opening 2015, on the 4G61, Ratcliffe Heavy Haul to Hunslet Yard, returning empty coal wagons, now almost a thing of the past,
* double headed, DCR 56312 & DBC/EWS 66005on the 6Z61, Belmont Down Yard to Didcot Power Station working.
* Finally in this 1st part, a Northern class 144, on the 2R71, Sheffield to Scunthorpe service crosses over the old Greasbrough Canal bridge; its a long time since any coal barges went up there ...
The second part of the video, photographed in 2016 whilst on a ramble with fellow photographer, Adrian Wynn, are traction-less, as it were, as there is no longer any metals on the ground, where locomotives could wander. The 1st few images in the 2nd part show the still extant building which was Earl Fitzwilliam's pumping house at Westfield, shown clearly on the central map in the preceding mosaic image. One assumes this was a facility to remove water from the coal seems which were being worked to the north. The site has now been taken over by small businesses, such as Eldon Screenprint and Janesta Leisure, the latter dealing with tent awnings and repairs. The building still looks in very good conditions and is certainly an attraction in the area. The front of the building on Westfield Road has a sign on the front proclaiming that the site belongs to 'UK Coal', one of the successors of the National Coal Board which took over all the coal workings in the area at nationalisation on the 1st January 1947, just one year before the railways were also nationalised and the 'Big 4', G.W.R., Southern, the L.N.E.R. & the L.M.S. came under control of British Railways. A sign posted on the green headgear tower at the front of the building, which can be seen in the video, indicates that any enquiries should be directed to the Harworth Colliery, but it too has now gone, the whole area now being redeveloped after the demolition of _its_ headgear in April this year, see-
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The 1st picture after the Westfield Pumping station shows once more, one of Adrian Booth's great shots, this time, of the diesel shunter descending the grade from the colliery, past residential housing and allotments and with a pedestrian footbridge in the background over the line; as if it was in any way dangerous... The signal on the left, Adrian Booth reports had not been used in some considerable time and this view was taken from the road bridge seen in the next clips in the video. The remaining pictures in the second part of the video show the walk up to the road bridge over the line, unlike the picture of Adrian Booth's just mentioned, the area around the bridge is now heavily covered in vegetation and the walls underneath the road, along the trackbed, have been covered in graffiti; there are several shots showing this as there isn't much else to see on the way up to the colliery site. The last five clips, of my own, show a not very exciting view over what just looks like some grassy area with large lumps of concrete still embedded in the ground. The sequence of five pictures shows first, two views to the south down the colliery branch, though you wouldn't believe this to be so, a view to the east where the land rises and in the foreground a piece of rail head embedded in the concrete. This is followed by another picture of Adrian Booth's showing the Hudswell-Clarke diesel shunter, #D1126, hauling a full rake of full coal wagons over the weighbridge, after which the shunter would run round and attach to the rear of the wagons for the move down to Rotherham Road sidings. The size and extent of the New Stubbin Colliery can be seen in these pictures and its hard now to realise this was more or less all hidden from view. The final two views of my own, taken in September this year, show the view to the north, up the track of the old Wagonway which brought coal down from Higher Stubbin and Low Stubbin Collieries along to the Earl Fitzwilliam, latterly Greasbrough, Canal. finally in this second part, to conclude, two 'Then & Now' pieces with the photographs of Adrian Booth taking pride of place on the left, the first showing the diesel shunter about to set off, the crew boarding the loco whose MGR wagons have been filled by the grab crane, in the background the eastern hill rises. In the contemporary picture on the right, taken in September this year, the only remains to be seen are the substantial lumps of concrete still in the ground which formed some of the foundations of the colliery site; the view is approximately in the same direction. And the last clip in the vide, the shunter, #D1128 has set odd down grade with the loco at the low-end of the grade on the wagons and is seen passing under the road bridge shown earlier, the shunter and its load heading to Rotherham Road. The line off to the right here was a short stub to a pit called the 'New Deep', yet another of Earl Fitzwilliam's colliery sites in this area which tapped the lucrative coal workings on the PArkgate and Barnsley seams. At right, depressingly, the contemporary view showing the same area, as far as possible, around the road over-bridge; it being almost impossible to walk either north or south from this spot and only by fighting back and cutting vegetation out of the way was this comparative view possible...
Here endeth the two-story narrative on the two colliery lines on the G.C.R./M.S.L.R. main lines, the first at Thurgoland and this at Parkgate... hope you have enjoyed the stories, its been a long haul....