Woodhead Route- The final day 17/07/81

also some scrapline footage.
Technically the final day was 18/07/81 as 76010 & 76016 hauled the 6M10 Speedlink Harwich Ferry return train at approx 5am.

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• Woodhead
• tunnel
• EM1
• EM2
• 76
• railway
• trains

[firemanvic36c]

I was a fireman in the 1950s at Frodingham depot-Scunthorpe-and used to take train loads of steel as far as Wath,via the Dearne Valley,sometimes changing over at Mexborough,bringing back empty bogie bolsters,or mineral wagons empty and loaded,and still very keen on steam,but in 1975 became a HGVdriver and driven over A628 hundreds of times,and revisited many places i used to know when on the footplate,i worked for E Thorpe based at Thurgoland,came across this and it jolted my memory

[Isochest]

@1967nj Yep, I reckon UK plc is now the Rent Boy's arse of the World: Pimped but not paid. People trafficked & it's body parts stolen to boot. How more low can it go!!!!

[GoTrainspotting]

best railworks route

[G0IMB]

For lorries, the only alternatives is electric trains like these. Let us get back to this kind of transport system.

[easybeat]

@Isochest On the roads much talk is of electric cars. No-one mentions what to do about road haulage. A 44-tonne HGV isn't going to get far on battery power, so what's the alternative?

[Booie1952]

@Booie1952 Sorry 26020 is now at York. Originally she was at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. I remember a senior supervisor and a fitter going there to sort the exhibition out.

[Booie1952]

The locomotive bodies outside Reddish Depot were nothing to do with the scapping. They were stripped of their bogies a few years previously for refurbishment to enable Reddish to undertake the "G" exam instead of sending them to Crewe. The breakdown crane from Newton Heath was used to remove the bodies.

[Booie1952]

@drgaffa 26020 has been preserved it's in the Science Museum in Manchester. The loco was a bit of a celebrity, appearing at the Festival of Britain in 1951 and breaking the tapes at the opening of the New Tunnel. Did you notice 76022 still sporting the "Ferret & Dartboard" Totem. I worked at Reddish from 1973 until its closure. The 76's were buggers to work on, nothing lightweight about them!!

[MK55A]

@cleckheatoncentral HS2, we in our lifetime will not see it, this is just another PR from the Tories, I can tell you now, thousands of surveys have been done on disused lines, but not if any has re-opened. You mention Leeds Central, they were supposed to re-open Leeds Central along with the viaduct at Leeds City in 2000, but the management at the time refused, so again we are stuck with what we have got. Now frieght as basically disappeared from the railways, i should know, i work for them !

[kevleisa]

i clicked like but its so sad to see the end of them

[highwirer]

Amazing. Those opening scenes typified Yorkshire in that period. Sad to see all those 76's lined up for scrap at the end. Interesting to hear my 2 hometowns - Rotherham and Crewe - mentioned as places for scrapping old trains. I knew CF Booth in R'ham well, next to the old station at Masborough. All these classic lines should be refurbed, not just for every day use. Imagine how great it would be if they used Woodhead to regularly showcase old engines from York etc. Magical!!!

[Isochest]

@speedemon81 Oil is on the wane. Even if it was not, common sense tells a person to conserve a resource. The same globalist conspiracy in action. A Dumb Action. Where is this world going? We need a revolt against this reassertion of Feudalism.