The Stocksbridge Steel train still running, encouraging, at Wadsley Bridge - 5264+69+71

            Thought this was worth including to show the size and weight of the haul which is transferred at the exchange sidings, via shunter, into the works proper; the class 66 loco not being deemed light enough to pass across the bridge over the River Don at the east end of, what is now, The Fox Valley Development, the east side being owned by TATA, and part of the steel works, until last year. I haven't seen the circular section, 'fluted' material before on one of these trains, so not quite sure what that is about. The material from the previous evening, comes back down, around 2 hours later in the form of longer and much smaller section material suitable for making into rails etc at TATA's other rolling mill at Roundwood on the Parkgate site; hope I have got that right. This return haul on the 6V58, Stocksbridge Works to Aldwarke U.E.S., weighing around 715 tonnes, careers back down after having hooked the wagons on to the back of the 66, the wagons having being brought out of the works, across the river, using the self-same diesel shunter; a type of working one may think which may be 'past its sell by date'! In the lower right picture, some 'wag' has chalked 'XX XX Little Pete, Beats Meat'... wonder what that signifies. The countryside aspect of the line can be gleaned from these pictures and its hard to see how an electrified double-track railway once existed here... DBC class 66, 66164 is on the nightly Stocksbridge Steel Billet train working the 6J57 from TATA's steel works at Aldwarke and Parkgate. The return working, 6J58, came back at 21:11, a few minutes early and these two workings are currently the only ones which come along the lower Don Valley line via Tinsley during the day. Network Rail are continuing to have a daily line possession on the GC line out of Rotherham, starting at Ickles Lock and extending all the way to Tinsley Viaduct, this being for the installation of the new Tram-train line-side hardware which is 'in progress', i.e. completion now being delayed by a year.

   

Taken on: April 5, 2016

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