Container traffic to the 'Tinsley Intermodal Terminal at Parkgate - 9345+317+346

And, even more container movements... this time, today, the timetable had them possibly passing each other somewhere between Templeborough and Aldwarke, as it turned out, it wasn't quite here, but one of pictures, having been merged from two, shows them doing just that... A fine day after last nights lightning, thunder and heavy hailstorms .. unbelievable conditions... The scene here looks rather tranquil in this triptych of 3 shots of the area around the 'Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation' which were taken, right next to the railway lines. At left a pair of swans glide soundlessly by through the area once occupied by a swing bridge which operated over the canal in the days when the green 'stepping bridge was just a simple affair, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/29082080745/
for a comparison of how it used to look, portrayed by the artist, Peter Bartle. The deck of this bridge has now been refurbished during for the Sheffield Tram/Train development and subsequent to the demise of the old canal swing bridge, another, lattice affair was put up in its place, that too was removed a few years ago to the one partially visible in the left-hand picture with a cyclist speeding towards the canal side. The centre shot, swinging the camera around 180 degrees and standing atop the latest bridge over the canal, shows a pair of coupled Transpennine class 185 units, 185119 & 185111 heading south towards Rotherham Central. This service usually heads along the Midland line from Swinton straight through to Meadowhall and Sheffield but, conveniently on this day, it had been diverted along here, this is the 1B75, Cleethorpes to Manchester Piccadilly, seen passing alongside the Rotherham cut of the Tinsley Canal, the S&SYN, en-route towards Central Station and then along the Holmes Chord and back onto the main line. At far right, looking towards the centre of Rotherham is the old Waddingtons Boat Yard, now the A.M.A. Steel stockyard with the two swans once again gliding by along the canal and the sky looking threatening once more..

I am reminded of the lines from 'She Moves Through the Fair', of which I have copies, sung by different musicians, my all-time favourite is the version by Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, Sandy Denny of 'Fairport Convention' which I still have a copy of, and in fact just recovered the L.P. out of my D.J. box and played it on my almost 50-year old Akai Stereo system which I have just put back together again, and which, by-and-large still works. The song is on their L.P., 'What we did on my/our Holidays' from 1969, sadly Sandy Denny died on 21st, April 1978, aged just 31, see-
www.sandydennyofficial.com/about-sandy/
and these are the words she hauntingly sang all those years ago, and for which scenes like these remind me-

'And she went away from me and moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her move here and move there
And then she went onward, just one star awake
Like the swan in the evening moves over the lake...'

The track may be heard here-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNO4P6z-yxI

Taken on: May 12, 2021

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Parkgate Retail Shopping Centre

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Class 66

66754

Northampton Saints

4E53

Felixstowe North(GBRf) to Tinsley Yard(GBRf)

Freightliner

66526

Driver Steve Dunn(George)

4E82

Felixstowe North F.L.T. to Tinsley Intermodal Terminal

4L09

Tinsley Intermodal Terminal to Doncaster then Felixstowe North F.L.T.

Rotherham Central

Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation

N & W

Newell and Wright Container Services

Liberty Speciality Steels Ltd.

Parkgate Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.

Parkgate Junction

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Signal S0743

Signal S0745

Great Central Railway

MSL

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

Liberty Steel

TATA Steel

River Don

Aldwarke U.E.S.

Rotherham Road Railway Station

Stubbin Lane Colliery

She Moves Through the Fair

Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny

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Fairport Convention

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