The formation is all BR Mk.1 except for the strengthener behind the tender - typically an older type - which is a Gresley CK on steel angle trussing. Please send us an enquiry if you are interested in buying this image Vol.2 about the Secondary Services should follow in a year or so's time. Plenty of snow still lay on the ground, despite the presence of so many heat-generating locos. 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! Visible in the background between the locos is the Leeds City-Derby line while the viaduct just visible on the left carried the line to Manchester and Liverpool, eventually closed to traffic. While debussing in Guildford we passed the station and caught a glimpse of 34099 Lynmouth, an air-smoothed "West Country" Class 4-6-2. A639, Wakefield Road towards Leeds - geograph.org.uk - 3858432.jpg 1,200 798; 285 KB. Despite over 20 years work on the archive, these scans have still not been individually checked and may prove to be damaged, faded, or not of sufficient quality to ever be offered in our full product range. 4.9.65. 6864Dymock Grange 16th February 1966. It's a horribly murky picture and it's hard to tell what the loco was doing with goods wagons ahead of it. Please read the comments as some facts in this article are disputed. 20 locos were on shed, and one diesel: 4919 Donington Hall Photo: Author. 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. For us lads from the North, it added to the magic of the far-distant SR. Q1 No 33012 on the turntable. Photo: author. 5th January 1964. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs 7th August 1965. In autumn 1966, I had started at Manchester University (and not found its railway society) and on 29th October hitch-hiked to London to see friends there, and dropped in on Nine Elms shed where the shedmaster had previously refused us entry because the permit was for that day - but a few hours before the time stated.. Technical details: First pictures taken with a secondhand bellows camera, then a Brownie 127, various borrowed roll-film cameras and, finally, a Zorki 6 35mm camera. and ironically all Riddles "standards". In plain green livery, I believe that it was a Nottingham loco at the time. A general view of the shed. Location [ edit] The area is two miles (3.2 km) to the south-east of Leeds city centre, between Hunslet, the M1 motorway and Cross Green in the LS10 postcode area . Source: Ordnance Survey. Brookwood station This, then, proved to be my very last picture. 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 two stations, Leeds City and Leeds Central, were just above the top left corner. 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. Facilities at this shed had been upgraded, to do wheel turning, for example, and this trio had probably been sent for that with the motion removed in advance to simplify the procedure. And my pocket money didn't allow me to go mad with film anyway; we did our own printing, which was great fun anyway. I think it was the school master's idea to go somewhere unusual, and he wasn't kidding for the first stop was the scrap line at Darlington Works, then: West Hartlepool Inside the 12-road shed was A4 No 60027 Merlin (allocated to St. Rollox at the time) and in steam, but we couldn't persuade anybody to move her out for a photograph. On shed were: 73007, 73076, 73079, 73122, 73145, 73147-8, 73151-3, North British Type 2 (later Class 24, and re-engined Class 29), 0-4-0 & 0-6-0 diesel shunters (later classes 06 & 08). The sun was getting low and while I took the usual front 3/4 snaps, here are the more interesting views! Photo: author. The yards at Hunslet can be seen just right of centre. The Black 5 runs on n a northerly direction. It's a fond childhood memory, really. Steam lasted in the West Riding for another couple of years and I could have seen it during holidays but the Nine Elms encounter with filth and rust had finished it for me. flexible offerings for business. of Stourton. The following day, alas, dawned miserably (it was much better further north) and the station was crowded like I have never seen before. The class was withdrawn from Copley Hill within a year and was extinct by the summer of 1962. We were to see five more A4s under cover, the ones sent north from King's Cross. People, me included, men, women and children rambled all over the tracks taking pictures, up to several hundred yards out for the departure, and strange as it may seem in these modern times, officialdom turned a blind eye and nobody got run over. A second batch followed: - with the larger tender. Oldswinford and Wollaston in the 1950's and 1960's. Oldswinford and Wollaston both have their own individual sense of community and are clearly much more than just outlying areas of Stourbridge. Jubilee 45608 Gibraltar awaits departure at Leeds City in 1963 with the inter-regional "Devonian" and WR chocolate & cream coaches. Courtesy of Leeds Museums & Galleries. The exhaust is rising high and the wind is blowing it across, but a leaking cylinder gland is creating a screen that is obstructing the driver's view. In the distance one of the J50 station pilots is approaching while to the right, lost in porridge, is one of the J6 0-6-0s, No 64203, 64226 or 64277. Portrait of a Maunsell 2-6-0 Class N, No 31406, a design introduced in 1917 by the SECR. Your figure of 9,000 working for the company across various sites in 1966 pretty much marries up with my figure of 5,000 at the site in Stourton. I suspect that I may have been standing on the Down main line to take this picture. Old Photo Restoration Online with AI VanceAI Photo Restorer helps restore old photos 100% automatically. 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. Ex-LMS "Royal Scot" No 46133 The Green Howards stands in front of the running shed at Farnley, which was the principal ex-LNWR depot in Leeds, on a weekend in 1961. for our site. All rights reserved. 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. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs Find high-quality stock photos that you won't find anywhere else. They were recorded as part of Hunslet Remembered, a small community exhibition at Thwaite Mills in 2017. Website hand-made by Frith, since 1998. October 1964. page. 1961. The poor definition of the lens is evident in this 1961 view of the west end of Copley Hill shed, taken from the adjoining park. In truth it probably needed to have been pressed four times, such was the gloom, and the pale Gratispool negative came out very grainy. 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. Only D5313 as it came by on a train! 70A Nine Elms The ex-NBR Holmes 2F was being withdrawn and the two here had their chimneys covered over in case of a reprieve: there were only eleven left. A short while later, Back 5 No 45219 was released from the train it had delivered and was sent out on the Down main line. Ex-LMS "Jinty" 47631 stands under the ash plant at Newton Heath beside one of the narrow gauge disposal wagons. 5th January 1964. Keith Long, former signalman in Leeds, has come forward to say that the headcode was actually 1V47 which was the Sundays only 4.31pm from Bradford Forster Square, Leeds City 4.54-5.02pm to Bristol Temple Meads. At its peak, during the war, it is said that over 90000 worked there. 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. A panned shot with the Brownie 127's shutter speed of 1/40sec showing plenty of motion blur in the foreground. You can just see the power classification, 5F, above the number. 7th August 1965. 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. The code being shown ".P39" is unknown to me, although I suspect a short-distance trip working. This is why BR removed all the nameplates and why Nine Elms, replete with ex-SR Pacifics - Merchant Navies, West Countries and Battle of Britains, air-smoothed and rebuilt - and all incredibly filthy was such a dismal and depressing place to visit. :-), Neville Hill was 50B (under York's 50A) until January 1959 when it became part of the district under Holbeck (55A) and the code changed to 55H. In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. Stourton, Leeds. Four were allocated for use as pilots at Leeds Central and the carriage sidings. With Holbeck's coaling stage towering over it, Sulzer Type 4, soon all of them to be called "Peaks", D.43 awaits its next duty. it has not been shown on our website before as it has not been optimised and therefore may not meet the quality standards we require for use in our normal product range. This raises several points because the Leeds-Bristol axis was a heavy carrier of parcels traffic and it would have been tempting to add vans of any kind. Since 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! Newton Heath (Manchester) used to be "Top Shed" on the LYR and was coded 26A until 1963 when it was downgraded to 9D. At last, a fairly clean ex-GWR "Prairie" tank, No 6112, one of Didcot's own. I can see that the headline might be confusing but I wasnt suggesting that the plant was called the Stourton Copperworks, merely that it located in Stourton. There used to be a large cemetery here, served by the railway (long since lifted) which brought the deceased from London, for example, some twenty miles away. An extract from the 1966 1" map of south Leeds with Holbeck shed 55A in the top LH corner and Stourton 55B in the lower RH corner. In between is a bogie bolster wagon with a load of steel. Valentine's Day offer - Save 25% off all images, use code: VALAMY25. The NER-built swan-neck water column is nearby. 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. 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. 65788, 65823, 65835, 65846 (J27). These locos photographed superbly from this angle, with a slightly softened aspect and plenty of power - so much charisma. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos take you back to Leeds in 1972. 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. The cold weather is not helping and I wonder if the loco completed the journey or the stand-by loco at Doncaster (usually another A1) was taken? It looked as if somebody had bought it, but I have never heard any more. 31.10.64. Quite recently I have learned, as in the caption above, that Tyseley had been equipped to do wheel turning and the rear wheels on 70047 have clearly been treated and the loco is waiting for a lift back to its home shed. quoting the Frith negative number,(s) the town name and size of print you would like to buy. 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. 64C Dalry Road when BR withdrew all wooden-bodied coaches. On a fine day a good result was possible, even with Gratispool film! Sunderland, once a large roundhouse shed, had the most meagre allocation to see that day, albeit purely ex-NER 0-8-0s and 0-6-0s: 63388, 63406, 63441, 63444, 63456, 63458 (Q6) The final years of steam in Yorkshire didn't reach the depths that was later to be seen in Lancashire. Ex-GWR No 6831 Bearley Grange, a visitor from Oxley, stands outside the ex-GWR three road shed at Gresty Lane. The book took 12 years for me and Clive to complete and, though I say so myself, Ian Allan have made a beautiful job of it (see full description and sample pages). History [ edit] When ready the loco was run down to Stourton and parked in the open yard in front of the shed for easy attachment to the return working from Hunslet. Close by in the sidings outside the double roundhouse was ex-LMS 45568 Western Australia. Stourton hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy Valentine's Day offer - Save 25% off all images, use code: VALAMY25 Stock photos, 360 images, vectors and videos Enterprise Lightboxes Cart Account All images Search for images Filters All Creative Editorial Stourton Stock Photos and Images (1,148) See stourton stock video clips Quick filters: We were are the water's edge from which the scale was quite incredible. The flattened exhaust over the train suggests a high speed but that's the wind's doing. 3rd April 1964. One of each pair was supposed to show a white light, the other, red. February 1985. This photographic archive brings together collections held by Leeds Libraries as well as collections from West Yorkshire Archive Service, the Thoresby Society, Leeds Civic Trust and Leeds Museums and Galleries. 16.2.66. 6996Blackwell Hall Class 40s were taking over their turns (6 were on shed) and the only Pacific power to be seen was a quartet of re-allocated ex-LNER A2s. We ended up doing Feltham in the dark and Old Oak Common and Willesden, though you have to bear in mind that in late October/early November it's dark around 5pm and we still had places to visit! Brand new Brish Type 4s (later Class 47) started arriving around this time and an evening would be a good time to see one, offically allocated to 34G Finsbury Park, being serviced. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. 4F 44584 approaches Leeds City from the Derby/Holbeck direction on the south chord of the Whitehall triangle with a local, pick-up goods. The place actually closed just two years ago. In other words, a great place to watch trains fly by and a bonus after missing out on Nine Elms. I was only sixteen but some things you remember for the rest of your life. To say that it was run down and a pride of nobody would be understating it. This general view was taken in Aug/Sep 1964 with the shed being run down and almost empty. It was used for crew training and in July 1962, re-allocated to Holbeck. It included relatively modern horse boxes and vanfits such as the insulated fish van. 70019 Lightning, formerly of Cardiff Canton, now at Carlisle Upperby, stands outside Newton Heath's running shed. A nice touch, I always thought. 31.10.64. Create a Photo Gift with this photo, add a memory, send an ePostcard and view more information. A2 60535 Hornets Beauty seen later in the day at Motherwell, moving off the coaling stage. The main line from Oxford is passing by, a familiar scene today. Ten of this Riddles class of 2-6-0s were allocated to the NE Region, some in the Newcastle area but mostly around Scarborough and Hull. old photos of stourton leeds. 63341, 63403, 63414, 63440, 63451, 63479 (Q6) 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! This still exists today as the Yorkshire Imperial Band, or Yorkshire Imps, you may have seen them performing in Middleton Park in recent years. Percy Main Hi David, thanks for getting in touch and putting us right. The light was little better but we had time to see five loco-hauled trains, the first shooting by as we arrived. April/May 1963. Growing up in Leeds in the 1930s and 1940s These are memories from people who were children in 1930s/40s Hunslet and Stourton. It wasn't the only example I saw in those last years of neglect. Quite a few of the A3s kept running without German smoke deflectors. Upload Image Faster batch processing > Before After You can also have a go at the 'proggy rug'. When I started in 1966, there were over 9000 working on site and at various depots, works and subsidiaries in the UK and all around the world. This loco carried on working until May 1965. Lack of nameplates doesn't disguise the class's elegant lines. 69003, 69011, 69019 (J72) The shed used to be two and half miles from where I lived and as a teenager, used to visit on my push bike, despite two quite steep hills - traffic was still quite light in those days! With the sun dodging in and out, just beyond were some lines of assorted locos in steam, including another one of Didcot's allocation, "Modified Hall", No 6969 Wraysbury Hall. Some may have also been hand coloured in the traditional style, bringing an old scene back to life with even more realism. 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. However, if you would particularly like to buy one of these Next to arrive was 8F No 48276, one of 56D Mirfield's allocation, with a Class 8 train, a code normally applied to an express freight with minimal brake force, in this case what appears to be a breakdown train. 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. Unfortunately, by 1964 the WR was beginning to lose its steam and the lustre of old was on the wane. A batch of pictures taken at ex-LYR shed Farnley in Leeds in October 1965. 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. The shed was still standing although the roof had been removed. The loco went on to serve for another 16 months. The Copperworks in Stourton has been a South Leeds landmark since it was built as the Leeds Copperworks in 1894. The Francis Frith Collection Francis Frith The UK's leading archive and publisher of local photographs since 1860. Another view of D5685 as it backed onto carriages, with the main running lines to the south in the background. All four ended up at Woking. 92060 stands in the shed yard, partly lit by a low sun. 5936 Oakley Hall Since The headcode looks like "V47" - see note below. :) Photo: Adam Banks. since 1860. Photo: Author. Curving away to the right are the lines to Bradford, Carlisle, and Harrogate via the Leeds Northern line. 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. Introduced in 1914, they had been designed for goods and mineral traffic and many were still in service. 3rd April 1964. for if you look along the railings on the right, there's a gap We used used have free run of the place. The day ended at dusk with a visit to the coal staithes at Blyth, colossal wooden lattice structures that towered high in the sky against the setting sun, with steam and smoke drifting across the sky from chimneys all around. 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. The loco had been part of the final batch built in April 1951 and was barely a dozen years old when withdrawn in 1963. It's now completely unrecognisable from what it used to be (Image: David North)4 of 26. 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. To cap it all, it was a dismally dull day. Note how the front number plate has been stolen, and so has the shed plate. It then went back to Holbeck and lasted until November 1967. Powered by AI photo restoration technology, it instantly removes scratches from damaged old photos online, as well as tears, spots, dust, and sepia. Secondly, the 15ft WB limit was quite generous. Behind it can be seen a remnant of what used to be the outer wall of the shed when it had four roundhouses. It was still a St.Rollox engine but for some reason was parked deep inside Eastfield's running shed. 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. Derelict land in Hunslet was to be given a two million pound facelift with the development of 36 homes. Was it the same shedmaster? It was an 8H Birkenhead loco at the time. The Bradford portion has been detached at Wakefield and will follow in a few minutes. Here are some of the pictures I took before I wandered to the main line and got sent packing. This was my favourite, along with Madge Wildfire. First captured on film, then, was a rebuilt "West Country" Pacific, No 34022, Exmoor with a secondary Up train of five carriages, made up rather well with gangwayed Bulleid stock. This was another school trip from Leeds on 31st October 1964 which embraced the following locations: Victoria station I have a faint memory of the Leeds United manager, Don Revie, being on the train on his way back from Cardiff. One of Percy Main's J27s No 65842 is polluting the the atmosphere in fine style. This was the itinerary, 65C Parkhead Tyne Dock This asset has some traction but few have discovered it yet. We have no photos of Stourton, therefore we have published no local books of this location. And after a whole day of mist, the sun came out! old photos of stourton leeds. This was the North British Railway's largest shed and its allocation when we visited was still substantial with 67 locos to be seen, now a mixture of ex-LNER, ex-LMS and BR types, and as many diesels: 44799, 44930, 44970, 45018, 45058, 45195, 45236, 45286, 4530, 45359, D8071, D8074, D8093, D8096, D8098, D8102-3, D8110, D8112, D8115. 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. The allocation was shared under a code of 52F. 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! April-May 1963. Browse 278 stourton stock photos and images available, . The approach to this shed was by the main line into Glasgow Queen St. (High Level) and D5313, a Birmingham RC&WC Type 2 (later Class 26) came bowling along with a medium length train, so my apologies for the snatch shot. A shunter is walking up, pole in hand, to uncouple the loco and release it. but if some spark good memories they are available to buy in a wide range of products, including framed prints, canvas prints and personalised photo gifts including tea towels, mugs, jigsaws, tableware, cushion covers, customised calendars. 81D Reading By mid-afternoon the light was beginning to fade and this was my last picture of the day, of J27 No 65855 having its fire cleaned out - you can see a shovel's worth being chucked out of the cab. It was sad but at least an effort had been made to give the loco a clean. Old hands may remember that ex-GNR J52 saddle tanks had performed these duties into the 1950s. Stourton is a mainly industrial area of the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. In 1930 a works brass band was formed as the Yorkshire Copperworks Band. The gradient steepens here to 1:50 and despite blowing off at the safety valves, you can see the fireman throwing coal on the fire as a plume of unburned coal blasts out of the chimney. This was, by the way, the outermost platform in what had originally been added to Leeds Wellington St. by the LNWR and NER and called "Leeds New" - it eventually all became Leeds City - and the train took the Leeds Northern line. Stock Photo ID: 2150473149. Leading is a BR Standard goods brake van (Dia.1/506 with roller bearings), No.B953645. The "Scot" was off Newton Heath in Manchester, which was a former LYR shed, and my guess is that it may have worked a trans-Pennine express. One of the lamps on the 8F has been removed to signify a light engine when it gets uncoupled. 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. J50 68988 stands in front of the offices at Copley Hill (56C) in April/May 1963. Photo: Steve Banks. 3rd April 1964. The shadows lengthen as B1 No 61394 awaits its return working, parked by the depot's breakdown crane. You might like browse old photos of these nearby places. Not a pretty sight in anybody's language. D1515 was built on 29th March 1963 and could hardly have been more than a few days old. A Clayton, D8512, comes onto its home shed from the running lines alongside. My notes show that 36 locos were seen, in varying conditions, among them these rarities which had been withdrawn long ago: To be honest and trying to think back, I wonder if we actually saw that trio complete or perhaps parts of them for some reason laid aside? A personal view at Doncaster taken in 1962 by my brother, Adam, with his Brownie 127 when he'd have been 12 and me 14, of A4 No 60021 Wild Swan arriving at the spotters' platform with the 3.26pm Leeds Central-King's Cross, "White Rose".