Freightliner engineering train en-route to Kettering at Masbrough Station - 0956+0959/962

An odd move this one and it appeared to stop and start quite a bit having come out of Doncaster Up Decoy, 52 minutes early... With not much else happening along here during the hour or so at the old station site, though there were a couple of moves out of and into Tinsley Yard, via the GCR line through Rotherham Central, the best had to be made of what was on offer. Two memorable recent passages though the station were this one on the 27th August, involving two different liveried H.S.T. power cars, 3272 and 43274 on a MENTOR Test Train working, see-
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and just a week before that, on the 21st August, another H.S.T. set, this time in 'Midland Pullman', blue livery, with 43055, 'The Sheffield Star 125 Years' at the font and fellow power car, 43046, 'Geoff Drury 1930-1999' at the back-
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and here-
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Today the passenger traction is a little more mundane and the 1st two shots show what was on offer, at left a Northern Rail, D.M.U.m class 158, 158861, which had been waiting around the corner a short while at Holmes Junction, on the 1W43, Sheffield via Hull to Scarborough passenger service. The station site looking both to the south-west in this shot and in the next shot, to the north, are now overgrown once more having been cleared in the last year or so, with the hope that the track at left centre, may well be used once more through the back of the station, it connecting to the north-bound line beyond. Alas no, the cleared track at the back of the station looks as 'wild' as it ever did and the connection to the north of the station has now been severed... The 'Red Bull', previously known as the 'Tivoli Inn', public house sign is still prominent, but the shuttered windows and door and lack of any custom now, which has been the same for a good long while; in fact it reportedly closed 10 years ago, in November, 2011. At upper left in this shot, the good ship 'Templeborough Biomass' is getting up steam and the 'Old Road' which passes by just outside the power station, is completely engulfed in it, caused by the cool, damp atmosphere; the power station being almost completely invisible. At right, with the Freightliner which appeared to be halted for a short time once more around the corner at Aldwarke Junction, it is now seen slowly rumbling through the station on a Civil Engineering train heading to the south. This is the 4Y05, Doncaster Up Decoy to Kettering North Junction working with a rake of full, 'GLW Concrete Sleeper Bogie Wagons' with class 66, 66537 leading and 66506, 'Crewe Regeneration', bringing up the rear; a long way around the corner, or so it seemed. Passing north at around the same time, a Cross Country Trains, class 221, 'Voyager' heading north on the 9 hour, 21 station-stop service, 1S39, departing at 06:25 from Plymouth and heading to Edinburgh.

Taken on: December 11, 2021

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