Stocksbridge Steel train back on its old path at Limestone Cottage - 3760+763

For some weeks now, the last late night path of the Stocksbridge St
eel train at 22:05, 6J52 with the return, 6J59, timed at 01:10 the following morning, which in fact ran 65 minutes early, occured were on the 21st and 22nd June this year. Since Friday 23rd June, there was no outbound working on the 22nd, the older timed path at 18:15, 6J57 has been operating and the earlier paths have been deleted from the time-table. With an indication from the Rotherham end, (thanks Baz), that the light-engine loco move, 0J57, from the Masbrough Freight Depot, into Aldwarke at around 17:00, was a class 60, it was time to get into gear and try out a new spot along the line. This locale had already been looked at in early April and which at that time looked promising, though of course the greenery hadn't sprung up then and now on arrival, it looked almost hopeless so, out with the shears! Departing Rotherham Central around 6 minutes early at 18:08, and from then on smartly coming along the Don Valley line through Woodburn, the set wasted no time in arriving here at 18:34, the locos headlights visible easily before it could be fully discerned in the shrubbery along back down the 1-in-100 grade, towards Wadsley Bridge. This is the 1495 tonne steel blooms/billet train on the 6J57, Aldwarke U.E.S. to the Ellen Cliff Sidings just 1.5km short of the Stocksbridge Steelworks; a local diesel shunter completes the journey, hauling the metal into the works, on the following day. Tonight, and partly the reason for being here a all, the steel train was hauled by a DBC class 60, 60007, 'Spirit of Tom Kendell' and seen hauling a similar train up here, this time at Woodburn Junction, in early September 2013, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/9661940097/
The line continues to be kept in good condition but the extensive palisade fence which has been erected along both sides of the line all the way along from Wadsley Bridge to Wharncliffe Wood is a very great eye-sore; a piece of it can be seen in the lower left corners of both pictures. Behind the camera at the other side of the road, the bridge is just out of shot to the right, is the still extant, 50s-looking building belonging to the Bachelors Foods canning factory but now occupied by other businesses, for a picture of it see-
www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/uploads/monthly_07_2010...
The work at the old TATA, ex-Samuel Fox, steelworks at Stocksbridge continues as does the one at Parkgate and two others which were all bought from TATA steel recently and the future of of the operation appears secure with new investment also being made, see. 'Liberty House take-over of Tata steel', here-
www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/liberty-house-ta...

Taken on: July 24, 2017

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