Class 68 Route Learner & class 70 Dewsbury Cement at Brightside - 1202+204+207+209

Action on the Hope Valley Line at long last with the commencement of regularly time-tabled E.C.S. moves between Manchester and Cleethorpes on the east coast; though not all the diagrams run and there were a few teething problems. As I had other commitments on this day, the most convenient location for the action was Brightside which hadn't been visited since October last year, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/51545099432/
showing the Uttoxeter 'Statesman' Charter passing north through the station heading for Appleby in Cumbria. Today's chief interest was a class 68 and, as luck would have it, it was followed almost immediately by a class 70 Freightliner.
First up, some passing passenger traction coming and going from and too the north and south and all pretty much as expected these days with the removal of class 14x Northern Rail traction its now down to Northern class 15x 170 & 195s, with E.M.R. Meridian and Cross Country Voyagers on the long distance hauls. Today in good light on the front of the traction, at top left is class 195, 'Civity' 195003, on the 1L48 service from Lincoln Central via reversal at Sheffield and then on north along the Blackburn Valley Line to Leeds. At upper right, 195003, having just passed beneath the pub in good sunlight, a view of the establishment which appears to gleam in the direct south-east, low sunlight, this is the age-old 'The Railway'. It is located just across the road, right next to the station it must have been convenient for local travellers in 'days of yore', before its final demise in the 1990s and the Meadowhall Interchange took over, a short distance north of here. At lower left, one of the other traction types, this time 'Cross Country' class 220, 220013 slowly comes forward, the signal ahead, S0168, was at single yellow a Northern class 158 DMU having just passed through. 220013 is on the regular 1V52, Edinburgh to Plymouth, 22 station-stop service, departing on time at 07:01 that morning and arriving 1 minute early in Plymouth at 15:45. In the background at right, a local school has its boiler in operation due to the cold conditions, and the exhaust steam is condensing above the front of the loco... At lower right, just a minute later, and it too slowing due to the same restrictive signal, S0168, just north of Mill Race Junction, showing a single yellow. Another 'Civity' class 195, 195023, is on the south-bound 1Y13, from Leeds via Barnsley and Sheffield to Nottingham service.

Taken on: February 11, 2022

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Brightside

T.P.E.

Arriva Livery

Class 68

68027

Splendid

5Z18

Cleethorpes via Sheffield & Hope Valley to Manchester Piccadilly

5Z19

Manchester Piccadilly to Cleethorpes

Freightliner

Class 70

70001

6M89

Dewsbury Blue Circle to Hope Earles Sidings

PCA Cement Tanks

Northern Rail

Class 195

Civity

CAF, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.

195003

1L48

Lincoln Central to Leeds

195023

1Y13

Leeds to Nottingham

Cross Country Trains

Class 220

Voyager

220013

1V52

Edinburgh to Plymouth

Wincobank Junction

Brightside Up/Down East Slow

Brightside Sidings

Sheffield Forgemasters

Signal S0168

Signal S0190

Signal S0188

Signal S0197

Signal S0199

Signal Feather

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