So when I tried again in 1966 I simply walked in, and got a shock. Years later I discovered that the (excellent) Transacord EP on these workings had on its cover, the very same loco at the same place and so similar that it's hard to tell the two pictures apart! With a classification of 5F, it was actually by some margin the most powerful 0-6-0 built in the UK. A classic sight from the '60s as 55B Stourton diesel shunter (later Class 08) No D3454 tows wagon along the Up loop. Terms & Conditions of Use Other Products: Under TOPS, the loco became 47416 and was withdrawn from Gateshead in March 1986 after an astonishingly short life of only of only 23 years. Neville Hill used to have quite a few Gresley J39's that were used for freight and excursion traffic and in 1962, seven were still on its books. Between us we can bring the full story to our readers. Next to it was D7578 (later Class 25/3 25228), allocated to York. This vertical format also conceals the shocking lack of sharpness towards the outer ends; the side edges were better. Ex-GWR "Pannier" tank No 9774 bereft of number plates and as mucky as all the other locos on shed that day. An aerial view of Pudsey in the late 1950s. I do try to get my facts right first time, but I trust our readership, including your good self, to correct me when I get it wrong. A panned shot with the Brownie 127's shutter speed of 1/40sec showing plenty of motion blur in the foreground. This was another school trip from Leeds on 31st October 1964 which embraced the following locations: Victoria station 70B Feltham 7th August 1965. 81F Oxford I must have taken this picture on my way home for here, at Leeds City Junction, is D43 again, with a passenger train at the head of which is a BR 4w CCT. since 1860. Frith photos prompt happy memories of our personal history, so enjoy this trip down memory lane with our old photos of places near Stourton, historic maps, local history books, and memories of Stourton. Photo: Author. The NER-built swan-neck water column is nearby. It was one of Cardiff Canton's that went to Willesden and, for a while, they worked an overnight/early morning fitted freight to Leeds. Don't miss other visitors' Memories and maybe connect with those who have shared their memories - you may even know the names, or learn more about the locality. An aerial view of the newly built Park and Ride area in Stourton, East Leeds providing parking for people and a bus service to the centre of Leeds city. The old works have been refurbished with buildings re-roofed and re-clad by Towngate plc. And after a whole day of mist, the sun came out! In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. please get in touch By this time pre-Grouping designs were getting rare and this was the only photograph I managed to take. 66B Motherwell It had been allocated to Royston (55D) but the shed plate is unclear and a letter "A" has been painted below as if to signify re-allocation to Holbeck (55A), where it is heading, about half a mile away. Making use of my A2 Certificate of competency and flying in a built up area.This is Stourton in Leeds, showing some great views of Leeds, Thwaite Mills and w. Photo: Author. 70C Guildford 80057, one of the Riddles 2-6-4 tanks which had displaced the former NBR passenger tanks on the secondary and suburban services. On a cold Sunday early in January 1964, my school train spotting society in Leeds organised a minibus trip around a cluster of freight sheds in the North East. 5th January 1964. To say that it was run down and a pride of nobody would be understating it. Pilot lights being carried: one over each buffer at both ends . Not a pretty sight in anybody's language. 6966 Witchingham Hall The Glasgow & South Western Railway built this depot, subsequently part of the LMS, to house suburban passenger tanks and goods locos. Since It turns out that when built in the early 1950s there were two batches for the SR: - which was sent en bloc to Eastleigh. One day my dad had to go to Liverpool and while he chased a passport, I chased steam at Edge Hill. Behind the tender is the support coach, an ex-LMS Period I type.The train may have worked out with the loco at the head and run round for the return. The next batch of pictures was taken by me and my brother, mostly using my Zorki 35mm camera. Behind can be seen a SR tender from a "U" class 2-6-0 and, beyond it, the repair shop. 7923 Speke Hall. A bonus arrived when a J94, No 68043, came by on the main running line hauling a pick-up or transfer goods. 7816Filsham Manor. The yards at Hunslet can be seen just right of centre. All rights reserved. The west end at Newton Heath had the coaling tower, ash plant and turntable, which 48070 is passing. Unfortunately, I was using a 35mm Zorki which is fine at f11, but poor when opened up in dismal weather, and the film was not processed very well either (at the time I was unable to do it myself) so the results are a bit primitive. South Leeds Life is regulated by IMPRESS and adheres to its standards code. Black 5 No 45219 pulls away under the skew bridge with more of the yards visible on the Up side. Seen at 81E Didcot under leaden skies is No 7816 Frilsham Manor parked between Riddles 5MT 4-6-0 No 73024 from Bath and Ddcot's 2-8-0 No 3851. The first set are my oldest pictures, taken with a second-hand manky old bellows thing using 120 roll film, including Gratispool film which was not celluloid but paper! Search from Stourton Photos stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. On Saturday 3rd October 1964, I went down to Stourton on my push bike to see Flying Scotsman on a special, and was surprised to see a clean Britannia arrive light engine, No 70021 Morning Star. 29-10-66. Find routes near Stourton, Leeds. The loco was allocated to Stourton where the working may have originated. April/May 1963. of Stourton. No plate could be found so "12B" was painted on the smokebox door. Riddles Class 2 2-6-2T 82026 propels stock in Copley Hill carriage sidings in April/May 1963. In April 1964, the train spotting societies in two secondary schools in Leeds combined for a tour of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Gloucester, coded 85B, included sub-sheds at Brimscombe, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Lydney and Tetbury. Note how the diesels were parked by the offices and the smoky steam locos further away! Then I found myself at the shed entrance off the line to Waterloo with many trains passing. Download all free or royalty-free photos and images. A sight rarely seen south of the border as a Black five fitted with a tablet catcher, No 45124 from Hurlford (67B), comes on shed. A nice touch, I always thought. All rights reserved. 64B Haymarket On top of that it was a murky day (the Scots have a good word for it - "dreich") and the sun didn't shine until mid-afternoon. Fortunately, A4 600025 Falcon also came by, light engine. A Riddles 2-6-4T, No 80154 (70A), passes under the signal box with an Ordinary Passenger made up with gangwayed coaches, Bulleid and BR Mk.1. This was a Carlisle Kingmoor (12A) loco. Photo: Steve Banks. A Clayton, D8512, comes onto its home shed from the running lines alongside. Note how the safety valves are blowing off and while the engine is quite mucky, there is no leaking steam; it looks to be in good condition. At the former Caledonian Railway shed, the sun greeted us, along with our first ex-LNER "Pacifics" in steam. 68704, 69025 (J72) We may have more photos available, so please do get in touch using our The complex was built by the Midland Railway and was quite large with yards on both sides of the running lines between Leeds City-St. Pancras. Stourton, Leeds Connected to: {{::readMoreArticle.title}} From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This one has the front doors still in place and a small middle cab window. 3-4-64. 92060, 92061, 92062, 92063, 92064, 92066 (9F) After attempts to preserve it did not succeed, many parts were used in the restoration of 45699 Galatea. A closer view of another one, No 70044 Earl Haig. That's another thing we tend to forget, that before global warming winters used to be colder and snow more frequent and heavier. The load appears to consist entirely of BR-built vehicles: BG, vanfit, vanfit, CCT. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. One of Copley Hill's Peppercorn A1s, No 60120 Kittiwake storms the summit of the climb out of Leeds Central on the final gradient of 1:50 with the 12.55pm to King's Cross. Photo: Steve Banks. This, then, proved to be my very last picture. Ardsley station close two months later. The fire is clean too. A few minutes later the train would crash by Peppercorn A1s, Britannias from Immingham returning the Grimsby train, and A4s on the "White Rose", long before either of us had a camera. 19th October 1966. This sequence of pictures was taken in September 1966 on my last outing with a camera (except for a foul day a month later at Nine Elms when the weather was awful and the locos obscenely filthy). I have a faint memory of the Leeds United manager, Don Revie, being on the train on his way back from Cardiff. Copyright S.W.Banks 2020Privacy PolicyTerms & ConditionsDesign by PageUp. The A4 was serviced in the usual way, and placed inside the shed, but many people turned up to see it and the foreman agreed to have the loco moved outside again so that it could be photographed. The two stations, Leeds City and Leeds Central, were just above the top left corner. Photo: Steve Banks, Another view of No 45562 Alberta with one of the shed staff clearing out one of the inspection pits. your memories of Stourton itself or of a particular Once Glasgow's premier shed for the West Coast Main Line with an allocation of Princesses and Duchesses, by early 1964 all the ex-LMS express types had just been swept away. 33027 (70B) was one of only around ten survivors at the time, divided between this shed and Guildford. Terms & Conditions of Use After the SR sheds we went up the Thames Valley visiting three WR sheds. In 1930 a works brass band was formed as the Yorkshire Copperworks Band. 5th January 1964. 7th August 1965. In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. 3rd April 1964. A general view of Redhill from a nearby embankment shows two Riddles "standard" designs, 80031 and 73113 Lyonnesse. Since The A3 in the background would have been 60074 Harvester or 60084 Gainsborough, one of the shed's trio at the time, these two never having gained trough smoke deflectors. Please send us an enquiry if you are interested in buying this image Peppercorn A1 No 60145 Saint Mungo, alas minus its nameplates is running into the shed yard past the coaling tower after working a special from Birmingham. Old Photo Restoration Online with AI VanceAI Photo Restorer helps restore old photos 100% automatically. Source: Ordnance Survey. The Copperworks in Stourton has been a South Leeds landmark since it was built as the Leeds Copperworks in 1894. The main line from Oxford is passing by, a familiar scene today. Only the Southern Region named some of its 5MTs, re-using names from withdrawn "King Arthur" class 4-6-0s. I would be interested in your source for the 90,000 workers during the war. Quite a canny teacher that was, who organised the trip. 16th February 1966. A4 No 60017 Silver Fox" is lifting the 3.26pm departure, the "White Rose", up the 1:100 out of the Aire Valley sometime in 1963. The site has played host to a number of industrial breakthroughs, as well as royal visits, and at its peak was the workplace of a 5,000 strong workforce. The bag that day was: Looking out from in front of the shed buildings across the yard various locos from the list above can be seen, but especially ex-GWR Pannier tanks that were still being used - the shed had only received two diesel shunters, an ex-LMS one (there used to be a pair) and a soon-to-be Class 08. A modern, almost spaceship-like profile but, alas, all were withdrawn within a dozen years and more Class 20s built in their place. Holbeck's "Jubilees" were beginning to be withdrawn and this rather sad-looking example I later learned had been withdrawn two months earlier and was awaiting its fate. The new ushers out the old as Doncaster's Peppercorn A1 60114 W.P. All these photographs are available to buy as a wide range of products, including Framed Prints in a variety of sizes and styles, Canvas, jigsaws, mugs, tea towels, cushion covers and make great gifts for relatives at Christmas, for birthdays and almost any other occasion. This is the only decent picture I managed, "Jinty" No 47519. Another blustery day but a year later, in June 1964 sees another Doncaster A1, No 60114 W.P.Allen as it lifts the 4.45pm to Doncaster out of Leeds Central. A BR Type 2 No D5253 (later Class 25) passes on the Up goods loop with a short goods train of a dozen wagons. Behind it is 7925 Westol Hall from Cardiff (88A). 66A Polmadie This asset has some traction but few have discovered it yet. Some may have also been hand coloured in the traditional style, bringing an old scene back to life with even more realism. Courtesy of Leeds Museums & Galleries. Only D5313 as it came by on a train! Ex-LMS 2-6-4T No 42409 carrying Station Pilot lights, shunts vans at Leeds City Wellington St parcels depot in April/May1963. From the invention of the Yorkshire fitting and the supply of materials for shipbuilding repairs in World War I, the Copperworks has played a pivotal role in British industry and history. The beautiful lines of the A4 catch the sun. Powered by AI photo restoration technology, it instantly removes scratches from damaged old photos online, as well as tears, spots, dust, and sepia. It was, incidentally a seat reservation train: as always, trains taking people home after a weekend away could be heavily loaded. Register to find out more and create your first album! Years later I learned that Copley Hill was a fearsomely difficult shed to get round because the main entrance took you past the Foreman's office. When finished It would run round its train and return tender first. At this high point the loco was beginning to coast and a westerly wind was blowing its exhaust across the front of the loco. In the far distance on the right, a large works was owned by Clayton & Sons who assembled pipes and boilers and that still stands today. those pioneering days we have evolved sophisticated and Ex-GWR No 6831 Bearley Grange, a visitor from Oxley, stands outside the ex-GWR three road shed at Gresty Lane. Portrait of a Maunsell 2-6-0 Class N, No 31406, a design introduced in 1917 by the SECR. Playtime: "Lads were adventurous and would walk to Temple Newsam. I was 15 years old and this was my first experience with a 35mm camera, kindly loaned me by one of my dad's workmates. Ardsley signal box can be seen behind the overbridge and, to the left, the junction for the direct line from Wakefield to Bradford exchange used for the King's Cross portions attached/detached at Wakefield until BR closed the line. 60025 Falcon passes by at the same location. Note how the front number plate has been stolen, and so has the shed plate. History [ edit] Download this free history of the Collection. One reason for the picture was to record the dark shape behind the tender, inside the shed. A second batch followed: - with the larger tender. For railway fans, however, the beauty of this location was the former LSWR four-track main line between Waterloo and Exeter and ten miles of rising gradient which steepened gradually, 1:314 through the station, peaking nor far beyond at 1:298. As it's worth a hundred times more today (less inflation over the years), I wish I'd had a little entrepreneurial spirit and bought out the entire stock, funded by the Bank of Mum and Dad, of course! When BR was formed, Tyseley was given a Western Region shed code of 84E, until transfer in 1963 to the LMR when it became 2A. J27 No 65835 stands in the wintry sun outside what used to be the roundhouse shed, but was in the early stages of demolition. Also, that it was specified "4-wheel vehicles with a wheelbase of less than 15 ft must not be conveyed by this train. It was a subshed of 84H Wellington and I believe that a Pannier tank was normally based there but the place was pretty empty when we visited. Steam was ending but we were young and couldn't really see it; train-spotting was carrying on despite the increasingly sad sights. Those two pictures are filed lower down and shall be united in due course. 16.2.66. Lack of nameplates doesn't disguise the class's elegant lines. It had just come off its roster, taken over by 47383. Photo: Author. As school kids I would come here often with my brother, stand the other side of the tracks, and watch as a vertical plume of steam heralded a departure from Leeds Central. All these photographs are available to buy as a wide range of products, including . Plenty of snow still lay on the ground, despite the presence of so many heat-generating locos. Photo: Steve Banks, Almost a reverse view of the previous picture with 9F No 92046. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos take you back to Leeds in 1972. Midway between Leeds Central and Wakefield on the GNML, Ardsley lay on the Yorkshire coalfield, between several junctions in the West Riding, and was chosen for the principal marshaling yards served by a sizeable engine shed. However, if you would particularly like to buy one of these Photo: Author. Photo: author. A639, Wakefield Road towards Leeds - geograph.org.uk - 3858432.jpg 1,200 798; 285 KB. Quite a few of the A3s kept running without German smoke deflectors. Return by clicking the "x". A closer view of D5100 in ridiculously dirty condition, with an even muckier ex-LMS Black 5 beyond it, believed to be 45063. Now I'm scanning the negs. Photo: Steve Banks, In BR days Farnley had a long-standing "Jubilee" in No 45581 "Bihar and Orissa" which seemed to be little used and was joined in March 1964 by No 45562 Alberta for nearly three years. 77010 finally moves towards the running shed to be stabled. One of the lamps on the 8F has been removed to signify a light engine when it gets uncoupled. The WD "Austerity", No 90030 (York) and its coal empties finally gets away. Once the special had passed, the sun came out and it was a pleasure to gaze upon a Riddles "Britannia" in pretty much the original condition with proper handrails on the smoke deflectors. Stourton, Leeds. Stourton Copperworks site brought back to life, Review: This House at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Hunslet Clubs vocational training impresses Councillors, Cheerleader Leahs headed for Florida USA, Hunslet Moor break in robs community of food, MPs Notebook: Voter ID, Ukraine & trains, Trees felled as work starts on Cockburn pitches. 3-4-64. Trams on Boar Lane in Leeds. This was a relatively old part of Leeds that was to be redeveloped considerably and, in the background, demolition was already taking place. 64A St. Margarets. The sun was getting low and while I took the usual front 3/4 snaps, here are the more interesting views! England / Yorkshire and the Humber / Stourton, Leeds. 16-3-66. At Gloucester (85B)on 7th August 1965, Riddles Class 2 2-6-2T 82040 is standing in the yard outside the running shed in what appears to be unlined green livery. Frith photos prompt happy memories of our personal history, so enjoy this trip down memory lane I don't know; but I did manage to get two pictures. It was quite an exposed location and most of my visits coincided with poor weather, on this occasion, cloudy and misty. old photos of stourton leeds. 81E Didcot 6996Blackwell Hall A sharp eye can just about make out the outline of an A4, Merlin, no less. I promise not to include the worst horrors! Saturday 4th September 1965. He's just added that the "1" was probably not being shown because of roller-blind failure, a common occurrence at the time. What can be seen of the formation is typical of parcels practice at the time with pre-Nationalisation stock still in service interspersed with vanfits: The fifth vehicle could be an ex-WR long-wheelbase Fruit D, many of which were transferred to parcels traffic but there's not a lot to go on! Not until relatively recently did I learn that the Brownie 127 had a pedestrian shutter speed of 1/60 sec, which explains why in this panned shot, the houses in the distance are so blurred! The first picture in the sequence from June shows a green liveried Sulzer Type 2 with the small middle window in the cab, D5227 (later Class 25/1 25077). A batch of pictures taken in September 1965, beginning with 4F No 44570 which is just north of Holbeck on the west chord of the Whitehall triangle where there used to be a goods yard. The leading passenger carriage in the picture is a BCK. Sadly the first one we came across, No 6131, one of six still allocated to Reading, had already had its number plates and shed plate removed. 16-3-66. Stock photos, 360 images, vectors and videos. On a murky Sunday in 1961, A3 60075 St Frusquin of Gateshead was on shed - it had probably worked the southbound "Queen of Scots" - and I set the camera up on a nearby buffer stop and pressed the lever shutter release twice. Curving away to the right are the lines to Bradford, Carlisle, and Harrogate via the Leeds Northern line. Two of the mineral wagons are carrying steel scrap. Another view of 61030 Nyala at Ardsley in September 1964. The embellishment of a copper-capped chimney still lent an air of elegance but the crudely painted number, on the bunker was dismal. An example, methinks, of theft by spotters from locos still in service (I came across one of this ilk recently who thought that his actions somehow deserved praise). Search from Stourton stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. Out of curiosity, I wandered out along the shed yard towards many signals and the running lines and was rewarded when 92061 came storming up the gradient with a loaded train. D1515 was built on 29th March 1963 and could hardly have been more than a few days old. All four ended up at Woking. Ex-LMS "Jinty" 47631 stands under the ash plant at Newton Heath beside one of the narrow gauge disposal wagons. A final point to note is that the loco is carrying a steam-era shed plate on its nose in steam era fashion, 16C, for Derby. 4.9.65. So sad to see a loco in such poor condition. Photo: Author. 6864Dymock Grange For most of its life, Percy Main's staple allocation was the J27 0-6-0 plus, I believe, J72 tank engines which had been replaced by a variety of 0-6-0 diesel shunters. Having been brought up among powerful and rugged 2-6-4 tanks in the north of England, the Churchward and Collett 2-6-2Ts looked quite dainty. Five were still allocated there. See the The turntables at Holbeck could certainly take a Britannia for I used to see them in the roundhouse and I would lean towards that option on grounds of convenience. This batch was concluded with another similarly equipped 6 but sent to Eastleigh. Carrying a layer of dust and grime but the clean lines do show well. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. The area falls within the City and Hunslet ward of Leeds Metropolitan Council. The 8F has been turned onto the Up main line (between Leeds City-Derby-St.Pancras) and is passing under the Balm Road bridge towards Stourton. Royal Mail worker Danny McGougan holds his local branch banner outside the Stourton Royal Mail depot in Leeds. Peppercorm A1 No 60117 Bois Roussel sits in the shed at Copley Hill. A 51-year-old man, who has not yet been. A view from the old brick & timber manual coaling plant that remained in place despite construction of a new "standard" concrete tower. Create a Photo Gift with this photo, add a memory, send an ePostcard and view more information. The first 11 went to Redhill. This photo shows disused factory . Browse our selection of vintage, retro and nostalgic black and white photographs of Stourton. This loco was allocated to 55B Stourton and was on local pick-up goods duty. Some of Holbeck's "Jubilees" were still at work but they too were losing their nameplates, and beginning to get dirty. Download Stourton stock photos. 16.2.66. Thats a huge number, given all the other war work being undertaken by engineers in Leeds. The Riddles "Britannia" with no name, No 70047, was one you always hoped to chance across eventually and it was disappointing and ironic to find it in this condition and after most of the class with names had already had them removed. 16.2.66. Only one open wagon can be seen and it's a steel bodied one. Looks like a fitter is inspecting one of the cylinders. It was my first encounter with the class. The first sequence of four pictures was taken with a Brownie 127 when I was 15 years old. with our old photos of places near Stourton, Jubilee 45608 Gibraltar awaits departure at Leeds City in 1963 with the inter-regional "Devonian" and WR chocolate & cream coaches. The BR CCT, however, had a generous wheelbase of 23'6" (the dimensions were similar to the LNER/BR CCT) because the value of an extended length and WB was being recognised. At least the fireman had little to do on this stretch! Tyne Dock 7029 Clun Castle being turned after returning from its early morning working to Cardiff. These iron ore trains ran seven days a week. It was cheap, I was only 12-13 years old and on pretty meagre pocket money. 81A Old Oak Common Black 5 No 45080, allocated to Farnley on the west side of Leeds, is arriving in the Down yard with a short Class 9 "Pick up" goods. 1961. 4962Ragley Hall A modern day City Square from above (Image: Eric Musgrave)2 of 26. All gone without trace. The first pictures are from Redhill and Guildford. Recently shopped Thompson B1 61030 Nyala stands outside Ardsley shed on a fine autumnal day in September 1964. We were to see a lot of BR "Standards" during the day. Most of the Down yard remains today, called, (I believe) Hunslet Down Goods or Balm Road Sidings. Allen is serviced at Holbeck, Copley Hill having already closed. 19-10-66. 2. Paddington station Passing in the opposite direction bound for Waterloo is Ivatt 2-6-2T, No 41298, which had only been allocated to Nine Elms a few weeks earlier. The whole train may have still been made up with ex-LMS carriages but by 1964 had been modernised with BR Mk.1 stock and it seems that a van was still being rostered at the head. The train appears to be taking the line towards Derby and the relevant arm in the splitting signal over the loco was the distant, which is "on" - the home arm above it would have been "off" but is out of shot. The Brownie 127 with its fixed shutter speed of 1/40sec was not exactly suited to action shots, nor cloudy days, and I was 14 years old and, er, trespassing by the side of Holbeck High Level station, half a mile out of Leeds Central. An album is a way to save a selection of Frith photos, maps and memories that are of interest to you. Jeste tutaj: is jill wagner related to robert wagner the actor carole is a licensed agent who lives in michigan best order to read the new testament old photos of stourton leeds.
