:). It looks like the old signal (of Midland Railway origin?) 64A St. Margarets. See more ideas about stockton on tees, old photos, stockton. Photo: Author. Refresh & enjoy your personal memories, or find some that family & friends will love as gifts. Another former Caledonian Railway shed, this was quite a small affair for goods traffic with only a handful of locos, but also the entire stud of preserved Scottish engines, among which was one that was not to be saved: Sadly, the Small Ben was never restored and was cut up in 1966. In the distance is a glimpse of the large yards that used to lie here, with many open wagons that were gradually disappearing from the scene. Register to find out more and create your first album! With the sun dodging in and out, just beyond were some lines of assorted locos in steam, including another one of Didcot's allocation, "Modified Hall", No 6969 Wraysbury Hall. Flying Scotsman sweeps past. Playtime: "Lads were adventurous and would walk to Temple Newsam. I'll spare you my results, though, except for this one. Allen is serviced at Holbeck, Copley Hill having already closed. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. for our site. Paddington station Available for both RF and RM licensing. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. A4 No 60017 Silver Fox" is lifting the 3.26pm departure, the "White Rose", up the 1:100 out of the Aire Valley sometime in 1963. Find high-quality stock photos that you won't find anywhere else. On shed was a remarkably modern stud of locomotives, the majority designed by Riddles and thus only a few years old: 80001, 80005, 80030, 80046. 64B Haymarket 3.4.64. 68036, 68061 (Hunslet J94) 6966 Witchingham Hall Simply click on the relevant illustration for further details. In fact all the signals seen here are ex-MR and in the distance, two are still carrying lower-quadrant arms. Note the signal box on the platform ahead of the loco and the old lower quadrant signals on the gantry, half lost in the mist despite being starters at the end of the platform. The place actually closed just two years ago. The code being shown ".P39" is unknown to me, although I suspect a short-distance trip working. This still exists today as the Yorkshire Imperial Band, or Yorkshire Imps, you may have seen them performing in Middleton Park in recent years. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. Details of prices, sizes and other specifications will also be shown on the next page. 4.9.65. Small wonder that Tornado wows the crowds today! He's leaning out more than normal to spot the next signals which are just around the corner. maps Not only did the camera have a fixed shutter speed, the aperture was also fixed. The first 11 went to Redhill. The building in the background was a three-road maintenance shed used to house diesels. Peppercorn A1 60120 Kittiwake backs out of its home shed, Copley Hill, for the run down to Leeds Central station where it will take the 12.55pm express to King's Cross. Every single loco was in foul condition, filthy and rusty, all the nameplates had been removed, and quite a few numberplates, too. 29-10-66. This general view was taken in Aug/Sep 1964 with the shed being run down and almost empty. At last, a fairly clean ex-GWR "Prairie" tank, No 6112, one of Didcot's own. Another blustery day but a year later, in June 1964 sees another Doncaster A1, No 60114 W.P.Allen as it lifts the 4.45pm to Doncaster out of Leeds Central. Explore and buy nostalgic photos of Stourton. Now I'm scanning the negs. However, a small batch of 17 was provided with the much larger BR1B tender (4,725 gallons and 7 tons) despite this 2-6-0 having a smaller tractive effort than an ex-LMS "Black Five". Photo: author. We were are the water's edge from which the scale was quite incredible. 4962Ragley Hall I believe that in its last years, this loco was allocated to South Blyth and Sunderland. These were among the last pictures I took for university, wine, women and song beckoned. April/May 1963. Photo: Author. The type was rare where I came from up North, BR's ER and NER regions. Only one open wagon can be seen and it's a steel bodied one. local history books, The two stations, Leeds City and Leeds Central, were just above the top left corner. Photo: Steve Banks, Almost a reverse view of the previous picture with 9F No 92046. Website hand-made by Frith, since 1998. LS10 1RD View area details View maps in the shop. 19-10-66. An old man in ragged clothing pushes a pram containing all his wordly possessions, his small dog takes a ride as well . It then went back to Holbeck and lasted until November 1967. Next to it was D7578 (later Class 25/3 25228), allocated to York. When built "Peak" D144 was allocated to Derby on 9th December 1961 but, a week later, transferred to Neville Hill, and can be seen carrying a 55H shed plate on the nose. See the The ex-NBR Holmes 2F was being withdrawn and the two here had their chimneys covered over in case of a reprieve: there were only eleven left. Peppercorn A2 60535 Hornets Beauty stands partly inside the running shed being prepared for a day's work. In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. And only ten shots were possible, quite unlike a 35mm camera, let alone the digital cameras of today. 67A Corkerhill A visitor from Oxford, "modified Hall" No 6974 Bryngwyn Hall, stands in front of the running shed. Old Photo Restoration Online with AI VanceAI Photo Restorer helps restore old photos 100% automatically. This loco seemed to follow us around and we saw it several more times during the day. The Riddles "Britannia" with no name, No 70047, was one you always hoped to chance across eventually and it was disappointing and ironic to find it in this condition and after most of the class with names had already had them removed. 16th February 1966. Unfortunately, I was using a 35mm Zorki which is fine at f11, but poor when opened up in dismal weather, and the film was not processed very well either (at the time I was unable to do it myself) so the results are a bit primitive. When we got to Tyne Dock shed, 26 locos were to be seen, dominated by ex-NER freight types, J27 0-6-0 and Q6 0-8-0. Green livery includes a low white line (or was it pale green?). The line on the bridge was a goods line that came off the GNR/LNER line at Beeston Junction and ran into the industrial area south-east of Leeds City with a yard alongside the Aire & Calder Navigation. The loco came to the West Riding from Darlington in the early '60s and spent several years at Ardsley. It looked as if somebody had bought it, but I have never heard any more. 90061, 90082, 90217, 90344, 90479 (WD 2-8-0). 64C Dalry Road Gresley stock continued to serve until 1969(?) It's fairly mucky but still has its cast number and name plates. The day ended at dusk with a visit to the coal staithes at Blyth, colossal wooden lattice structures that towered high in the sky against the setting sun, with steam and smoke drifting across the sky from chimneys all around. At its peak, during the war, it is said that over 90000 worked there. A 51-year-old man, who has not yet been. An example, methinks, of theft by spotters from locos still in service (I came across one of this ilk recently who thought that his actions somehow deserved praise). D3242, D3243 (08). 31.10.64. The clock is showing just before 1pm, which suggests a weekend visit. Photo: Steve Banks. To say that it was run down and a pride of nobody would be understating it. The yards at Hunslet can be seen just right of centre. From the invention of the Yorkshire fitting and the supply of materials for shipbuilding repairs in World War I, the Copperworks has played a pivotal role in British industry and history. It was from Cricklewood West. It was a subshed of 84H Wellington and I believe that a Pannier tank was normally based there but the place was pretty empty when we visited. Brush Type 2 No D5685 was busy in the carriage sidings. 7923 Speke Hall. Your figure of 9,000 working for the company across various sites in 1966 pretty much marries up with my figure of 5,000 at the site in Stourton. What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton. 7917North Aston Hall 3rd April 1964. Behind the tender, with three more further back, is a container on its flat wagon, precursor of today's giant-sized containers. From the invention of the Yorkshire fitting and the supply of materials for shipbuilding repairs in World War I, the Copperworks has played a pivotal role in British industry and history. The Copperworks in Stourton has been a South Leeds landmark since it was built as the Leeds Copperworks in 1894. The beautiful lines of the A4 catch the sun. Stourton Railway Station. It was one of Cardiff Canton's that went to Willesden and, for a while, they worked an overnight/early morning fitted freight to Leeds. 4F 44584 approaches Leeds City from the Derby/Holbeck direction on the south chord of the Whitehall triangle with a local, pick-up goods. I think it was the school master's idea to go somewhere unusual, and he wasn't kidding for the first stop was the scrap line at Darlington Works, then: West Hartlepool Ardsley station close two months later. Black 5 No 45219 pulls away under the skew bridge with more of the yards visible on the Up side. However, if you feel we have breached the code in any way and wish to make a complaint, please submit your complaint, in writing to the editor. The final years of steam in Yorkshire didn't reach the depths that was later to be seen in Lancashire. Close by in the sidings outside the double roundhouse was ex-LMS 45568 Western Australia. 64F Bathgate Find the perfect stourton leeds stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. A panned shot with the Brownie 127's shutter speed of 1/40sec showing plenty of motion blur in the foreground. On the ER only the odd example of 0-6-0 and 0-6-2 station pilots received liveries from previous eras, on the SR I believe that quite a few of this class received this Bulleid livery. I promise not to include the worst horrors! 2. The west end at Newton Heath had the coaling tower, ash plant and turntable, which 48070 is passing. The area had goods and marshalling yards, and was served by a freight depot, 55B Stourton. 68704, 69025 (J72) This image is a Reference Print: The A4 was serviced in the usual way, and placed inside the shed, but many people turned up to see it and the foreman agreed to have the loco moved outside again so that it could be photographed. We may have more photos available, so please do get in touch using our With a classification of 5F, it was actually by some margin the most powerful 0-6-0 built in the UK. Gloucester, coded 85B, included sub-sheds at Brimscombe, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Lydney and Tetbury. Withdrawn from 66A Polmadie and 64B Haymarket: 46105 Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow Regiment. 77010 finally moves towards the running shed to be stabled. On a cold Sunday early in January 1964, my school train spotting society in Leeds organised a minibus trip around a cluster of freight sheds in the North East. D1515 was built on 29th March 1963 and could hardly have been more than a few days old. Hunslet Shopping Centre. 8F No 48276 is released from what appears to have been a breakdown crane train and backs away on the Down loop. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs Ex-GWR "Pannier" tank No 9774 bereft of number plates and as mucky as all the other locos on shed that day. One of Percy Main's J27s No 65842 is polluting the the atmosphere in fine style. All these photographs are available to buy as a wide range of products, including Framed Prints in a variety of sizes and styles, Canvas, jigsaws, mugs, tea towels, cushion covers and make great gifts for relatives at Christmas, for birthdays and almost any other occasion. Black 5 No 45080, allocated to Farnley on the west side of Leeds, is arriving in the Down yard with a short Class 9 "Pick up" goods. Oldswinford and Wollaston in the 1950's and 1960's. Oldswinford and Wollaston both have their own individual sense of community and are clearly much more than just outlying areas of Stourbridge. It's free to browse our vintage and retro photographs I don't recall ever feeling such regret. An aerial view of Pudsey in the late 1950s. 61220 (B1) The light was little better but we had time to see five loco-hauled trains, the first shooting by as we arrived. Stourton Copperworks site brought back to life, Review: This House at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Hunslet Clubs vocational training impresses Councillors, Cheerleader Leahs headed for Florida USA, Hunslet Moor break in robs community of food, MPs Notebook: Voter ID, Ukraine & trains, Trees felled as work starts on Cockburn pitches. By a quirk of fate we met up last week in Leeds at a school reunion. The station was between Leeds and Cross gates when it opened in 1930 before it closed 30 years later in 1960. This was another school trip from Leeds on 31st October 1964 which embraced the following locations: Victoria station Fortunately, the most serious injury was a broken finger. The loco was one of four used at Scarborough and Malton being dispersed on closure of those depots to steam and briefly tried here. 65D Dawsholm In the distance one of the J50 station pilots is approaching while to the right, lost in porridge, is one of the J6 0-6-0s, No 64203, 64226 or 64277. I can't say that I enjoy pictures of run-down locos but 45626 Seychelles was another old friend and there's no disguising Stanier's elegant lines. This was the North British Railway's largest shed and its allocation when we visited was still substantial with 67 locos to be seen, now a mixture of ex-LNER, ex-LMS and BR types, and as many diesels: 44799, 44930, 44970, 45018, 45058, 45195, 45236, 45286, 4530, 45359, D8071, D8074, D8093, D8096, D8098, D8102-3, D8110, D8112, D8115. It was my first encounter with the class. 1. Behind the tender is the support coach, an ex-LMS Period I type.The train may have worked out with the loco at the head and run round for the return. Newton Heath (Manchester) used to be "Top Shed" on the LYR and was coded 26A until 1963 when it was downgraded to 9D. 16-3-66. Note the green livery, before the yellow panels were added, and the empty headcode indicator box. In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. In truth it probably needed to have been pressed four times, such was the gloom, and the pale Gratispool negative came out very grainy. On a fine day a good result was possible, even with Gratispool film! We were to see a lot of BR "Standards" during the day. Trams on Boar Lane in Leeds. Stourton, Leeds. Until recently Saint Mungo had been based at Copley Hill but with its closure, the stud of Peppercorns was dispersed, losing the nameplates in the process. Sorry, we can't find any Another "Black Five", No 45219 of 55D Royston, is seen running tender first on the Up loop with a Class 8 express freight with minimal braking, covered vans at the head. This one has the front doors still in place and a small middle cab window. 3rd April 1964. The other facts in the article were taken from the developers publicity material and taken on trust as I struggled to find other sources on the internet. 3rd April 1964. I have a faint memory of the Leeds United manager, Don Revie, being on the train on his way back from Cardiff. But no pictures. It was quite an exposed location and most of my visits coincided with poor weather, on this occasion, cloudy and misty. 16th February 1966. Here's a map showing the location: An extract from the 1966 1" map of south Leeds with Holbeck shed 55A in the top LH corner and Stourton 55B in the lower RH corner. However, we understand that this image could be potentially important for genealogical, local history or architectural research and so we are showing it on the website for on-line research only. Ah, pure beauty :). Loco works An unusual feature is the large tender, better associated with 9Fs. The day started badly because the Shed Foreman at Nine Elms refused to admit us on the grounds that the permit was for noon and there we were at 8am - the rotter! A Riddles 4MT 2-6-0 with bits missing, No 76066. YORKSHIRE COPPER WORKS, cunningly renamed by someone as Stourton Copper Works, a name that not one of its former employees would recognise. The WD "Austerity", No 90030 (York) and its coal empties finally gets away. A639, Wakefield Road towards Leeds - geograph.org.uk - 3858432.jpg 1,200 798; 285 KB. A general view of the shed. At least the fireman had little to do on this stretch! The early ones had a BR2 or BR2A tender for 3,500 gallons of water and 6 tons of coal. Here's the loco crossing the running lines towards the engine shed. for if you look along the railings on the right, there's a gap We used used have free run of the place. Within days I was off to uni where I discovered wine, women and song, but not a railway society (there must surely have been one)? Quite recently I have learned, as in the caption above, that Tyseley had been equipped to do wheel turning and the rear wheels on 70047 have clearly been treated and the loco is waiting for a lift back to its home shed. ), the roster for the train in the nearest issue that I have (for winter 1957) quoted a BGBS at the head, that is, a gangwayed bogie van with British Standard gangways, typically an ex-LMS 50' vehicle. I was only sixteen but some things you remember for the rest of your life. Launch OS Maps The report can be found at www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=1084. The whole train may have still been made up with ex-LMS carriages but by 1964 had been modernised with BR Mk.1 stock and it seems that a van was still being rostered at the head. If you're hungry for a more detailed view, go to: and you'll find the 25" map for Hunslet in colossal detail. but if some spark good memories they are available to buy in a wide range of products, including framed prints, canvas prints and personalised photo gifts including tea towels, mugs, jigsaws, tableware, cushion covers, customised calendars. 5th January 1964. 6913 Levens Hall A wider view from under the Balm Road skew bridge of 48276 and the Down yard. Secondly, the 15ft WB limit was quite generous. 7th August 1965. please get in touch Jun 28, 2014 - Explore alan hebron's board "Stockton on tees old photos" on Pinterest. 7th August 1965. 19th October 1966. South Blyth was mainly J27s plus the odd 2-6-0 and on shed that day were: 65810, 65819, 65852, 65855, 65862, 65870, 65876, 65891 (J27) 31.10.64. And finally, sensing that luck was against me in catching a Scottish A4 outdoors, I grabbed a cab side view of 60031 Golden Plover deep in the gloom. Part of the coaling stage can be seen in the background. 65A Eastfield those pioneering days we have evolved sophisticated and Growing up in Leeds in the 1930s and 1940s These are memories from people who were children in 1930s/40s Hunslet and Stourton. :-), Neville Hill was 50B (under York's 50A) until January 1959 when it became part of the district under Holbeck (55A) and the code changed to 55H. Fully coalled, it awaits its return working. The class was withdrawn from Copley Hill within a year and was extinct by the summer of 1962. 6976Graithwaite Hall Four new additions - On Saturday 18th September 1965, an Aberdeen A4, No 60004 William Whitelaw was sent to Neville Hill to work an RCTS special the following day, "The Blyth-Tyne express". Note how the diesels were parked by the offices and the smoky steam locos further away! This sequence of pictures was taken in September 1966 on my last outing with a camera (except for a foul day a month later at Nine Elms when the weather was awful and the locos obscenely filthy). 5936 Oakley Hall Ex-LMS "Royal Scot" No 46133 The Green Howards stands in front of the running shed at Farnley, which was the principal ex-LNWR depot in Leeds, on a weekend in 1961. Valentine's Day offer - Save 25% off all images, use code: VALAMY25. Note how the safety valves are blowing off and while the engine is quite mucky, there is no leaking steam; it looks to be in good condition. Photo: Author. The site has played host to a number of industrial breakthroughs, as well as royal visits, and at its peak was the workplace of a 5,000 strong workforce. In the far distance on the right, a large works was owned by Clayton & Sons who assembled pipes and boilers and that still stands today. Copyright S.W.Banks 2020Privacy PolicyTerms & ConditionsDesign by PageUp. Photo: Steve Banks. To the right is the three-road repair shop, and beyond, the recently built DMU shed and fuel stores. Free or royalty-free photos and images. The next batch of pictures was taken by me and my brother, mostly using my Zorki 35mm camera. Many J94s had operated in the North East and nine of them were standing in the lines. I borrowed a camera for the day that took 120 roll film, so the negatives are large. 6921Borwick Hall All images Copyright Steve Banks, no unauthorised use. The concrete coaling tower is in the background. Plenty of snow still lay on the ground, despite the presence of so many heat-generating locos. And finally, the front end with a Peppercorn A1 behind it, possibly 60118 Archibald Sturrock, one of the batch transferred from Copley Hill after that shed closed the previous year. Sunderland In plain green livery, I believe that it was a Nottingham loco at the time. Refresh & enjoy your personal memories, or find some that family & friends will love as gifts. Photo: Author. England / Yorkshire and the Humber / Stourton, Leeds. Riddles 5MT No 73122, a 67A Corkerhill loco, stands in front of the 10-road shed. D3244 (08). J50 68988 stands in front of the offices at Copley Hill (56C) in April/May 1963. The old works have been refurbished with buildings re-roofed and re-clad by Towngate plc. 75B Redhill The train appears to be taking the line towards Derby and the relevant arm in the splitting signal over the loco was the distant, which is "on" - the home arm above it would have been "off" but is out of shot. 81A Old Oak Common 70C Guildford As far as I know, V2s were never allocated to Neville Hill (ex-NER B16 and Thomposn B1 4-6-0s were used instead) but York had many and they often worked through to Leeds, such as 60967 which is standing by the water tower. Despite over 20 years work on the archive, these scans have still not been individually checked and may prove to be damaged, faded, or not of sufficient quality to ever be offered in our full product range. for Stourton and Yorkshire too! A modern warehousing and distribution facility of 300,000 sq ft has been created which is currently on the market. Since One of Copley Hill's Peppercorn A1s, No 60120 Kittiwake storms the summit of the climb out of Leeds Central on the final gradient of 1:50 with the 12.55pm to King's Cross. One of each pair was supposed to show a white light, the other, red. Crewe North Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. flexible offerings for business. It was used for crew training and in July 1962, re-allocated to Holbeck. 66B Motherwell A2 60535 Hornets Beauty seen later in the day at Motherwell, moving off the coaling stage. Another view of 61030 Nyala at Ardsley in September 1964. :). It had been allocated to Royston (55D) but the shed plate is unclear and a letter "A" has been painted below as if to signify re-allocation to Holbeck (55A), where it is heading, about half a mile away. They were joined at Harrogate for the final leg to Darlington. The next signal box, Holbeck's Engine Shed Junction was just round the corner. In the down lay-bye, a WD 2-8-0 is waiting with coal empties. Search from Stourton Photos stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. Sadly the first one we came across, No 6131, one of six still allocated to Reading, had already had its number plates and shed plate removed. Frith photos prompt happy memories of our personal history, so enjoy this trip down memory lane Departure, aided by the falling gradient, was shrouded by steam. But for me, they mark the end of that hobby. This was a Carlisle Kingmoor (12A) loco. He even developed and printed the film. Carrying a layer of dust and grime but the clean lines do show well. Looking the other way, 80143 is managing coal wagons at the coaling stage. Had I known at the time, I would have been quite a bit happier! However, if you would particularly like to buy one of these After Guildford we headed for Reading (81D), by way of the station at Brookwood. Fortunately, A4 600025 Falcon also came by, light engine. I do try to get my facts right first time, but I trust our readership, including your good self, to correct me when I get it wrong. In fact historically Oldswinford was the main centre for the Stourbridge area, St Mary's Church was key to this and genealogy research in the area . 5th January 1964. 65788, 65823, 65835, 65846 (J27). The elegant front end and nameplate of A2 60535 Hornets Beauty, with a single chimney and smaller driving wheels, arguably slightly prettier than Peppercorn's A1. 33027 (70B) was one of only around ten survivors at the time, divided between this shed and Guildford. It's a windy day as Doncaster A1, No 60125 Scottish Union breasts the summit of the climb past Copley Hill shed and begins the descent towards Leeds Central station. 19th October 1966. This, then, proved to be my very last picture. Indeed, the prototype of the BR CCT was significantly smaller, almost the same size as the BR horsebox; redesigning it had been a smart move. I saw a few more at Stourton around this time but it was a relatively short-lived phase. 66E Carstairs When ready the loco was run down to Stourton and parked in the open yard in front of the shed for easy attachment to the return working from Hunslet. Years later I learned that Copley Hill was a fearsomely difficult shed to get round because the main entrance took you past the Foreman's office. Behind can be seen a SR tender from a "U" class 2-6-0 and, beyond it, the repair shop. Was it the same shedmaster? 2. since 1860. Powered by AI photo restoration technology, it instantly removes scratches from damaged old photos online, as well as tears, spots, dust, and sepia. I wasn't much in the habit of photographic diesel-hauled trains at the time. Pilot lights being carried: one over each buffer at both ends . Old hands may remember that ex-GNR J52 saddle tanks had performed these duties into the 1950s. :) Photo: Adam Banks. We have no photos of Stourton, therefore we have published no local books of this location. Photo: Author. Between us we can bring the full story to our readers. :) 5th January 1964. Several locos had been dumped there: three "Royal Scots" ex-66A Polmadie and Papyrus, a former star at Haymarket. Coming back, division was at York. We had been advised, or so said the rumour, that an A4 had been rostered so it was disappointing to see an old friend turn up in this condition.
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