L.S.L. class 20s at Treeton Junction and Container & Scrap at Tinsley Yard - 5746+747

* Treeton Jn
This was rather an unusual move from the N.W. of England, which travelled down to the S. Yorks area and then 'scooted' up and down the local Network before finally 'bedding down' at Barrow Hill after an 8.5 hour run-around. Not only that, it was a pair of almost identical, well turned out, green liveried class 20s operated on this day by Locomotive Services Limited, L.S.L. Shame we never saw either of these on the Autumn RHTT workings a few years ago when class 20, DRS locos, were being used..
I haven't been in the Treeton area for a good long while, on December 8th, 2022, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/52563409689/
before that on 6th April, 2022-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/51990394248/
and finally, a class 50, 50049, on the 1st March, 2021-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50996549177/
The area has largely stayed the same which can't be said of the now burgeoning Waverley Housing Estate, behind the camera on the other side of the trees and the River Rother. The development will stretches along the western back of the River Rother, just the other side of the footbridge and the whole estate will reach the northern shores of the artificial lake; this is a vast, 4000-house development, I am led to understand and this has and will continue to ruin the whole feel of the place from past days, when I used to wonder round here and hardly see a soul...
Heading south on this leg of the long day's journey, leading the 2 loco move with 20096, ex-D8096, on the front and 20107, ex-D8107, named, 'Jocelyn Feilding 1940-2020', is the 0Z44, Carlisle Upperby TMD(LSL) to Barrow Hill L.I.P. loco jaunt.On the left it is seen heading down the line having passed through the old Treeton Station site and on the left is the Treeton Down Goods loop, fortunately still in use, form time-to-time; the 2 red aspects of the loop and main line signals, S0297 and S0299 respectively, can be seen at the rear. the AWS ramp for S0299 is in the foreground, just to the left of the rear of 20107 at the back and rail sleepers still lie around in the undergrowth from work which removed all other rail infrastructure in the area, a few years ago. At right, bringing up the rear of this simple train move, is D8107, 20107, 'Jocelyn Feilding 1940-2020' also carrying the 3 white 'headcode disks' which aren't indicating anything at the moment...Autumn is fully under way around here and the RHTT leaf clearing trains have been running for a week. After passing through the Rotherham area, Masbrough, it is seen here continuing south and along through Barrow Hill and into Chesterfield Station where it will reverse then head back for a run north, now along the Midland Main Line to Sheffield. Some information about the name of this loco-
'... Jocelyn Feilding who died aged 80 on May 9, 2020, was a distinguished art dealer and bon viveur. He had an authoritative eye and a passion for Italian painting. He was born at Beckley Park, a fine moated 16th century house near Oxford, one of four children...', see-
peeragenews.blogspot.com/2020/05/jocelyn-rupert-rowland-g...
On this loco, the name is just visible on the side of the footway at the back, painted in a similar dun-green colour as the rest of the loco...

Although following this back to the location of the reversal in the Sheffield area, at Brightside sidings, it unfortunately did not come far enough along the sidings to get anther shot of it during reversal, close to the Postal Sorting Office at Grimesthorpe, so these are the only shots I got during its 2.5hour saunter around, parking up in Sheffield Station for a short interval on two occasions when heading south...
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Prompted by Gavin.B's comment made below, in response to my text narrative regarding the 'green liveried' class 20s, 20096 & 20107, I have taken the trouble to upload 26 shots of the 2011 RHTT workings which took place in November of that year. The traction during this period was-
* 20189, the 'green one', with 0Z20 on the headcode panel,
* 20227, the 'grey one', with large, double-arrow, B.R. logo on the side,
* 20142, the 'blue one' in B.R. blue, with small double-arrow, B.R. logo on the side and 1K73 on the front & 0J01 on the back and,
* 20096, 'another blue one' in B.R. blue, with small double-arrow, B.R. logo on the side.

It has to be said that this was probably the best season for class 20 traction on the RHTT, the following years saw D.R.S. take over with their own 'blue-liveried', 20s and a selection of traction numbers right up until around 2018, when the first D.R.S. class 66s started to appear along with the odd class 68, and a clutch of class 37s. That year, 15th October, also saw another 'green liveried' variant, 20007 with B.R. blue, 20205, so not all was lost, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/31486795958/
And, further more, 'Satsuma liveried', 'Harry Needle Ltd' 20s, 20118 and 20132, in the following year, the first day of the season, 1st October, 2019, at Woodburn Junction, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48828172247/
and here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48828171832/
and at Tinsley South Junction, on 22nd October, 2019, here-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48958285531/
and finally, on 26th November, 2020, here at Woodhouse-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50653006921/

Finally, 2021 was to be the last year D.R.S. ran the leaf clearing trains, the last date being 14th December of that year when a pair of class 37s, 37419 and 37401 came up the Stocksbridge branch to Deepcar, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/51749910957/
and ended their, somewhat troublesome stint, as operators of the Rail Head Treatment Train. The following year, on the 1st October 2022, Colas Rail took over the contract and they operated the service with a pair of class 66s, though a class 56 was also used at times, here seen at Woodburn Junction on the last day of the season's operation, on the 6th December-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/52559365549/
and
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/52559069671/

Enough.

So as part of the new 'Look-Back' sets of pictures, this set is from the 2011, R.H.T.T. season, featuring some of the best class 20s of that period. This was the last year this set ran and subsequently, D.R.S. took over the Leaf Clearing duties with their own blue class 20s, though on odd occasions, a pair of other 20s were seen belonging, for instance, to 'Harry Needle Ltd.'. the locos striking in their 'Satsuma Livery'...

So, here is the link to the directory of 26 images-
www.flickr.com/photos/imarch2/albums/72177720321127566
on my Archive Site No.2, IMARCH2-
www.flickr.com/photos/imarch2/

Taken on: October 8, 2024

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Treeton Junction

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Pride of GB Railfreight

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Doncaster Up Decoy to Ironville Junction

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