Various photographs of the Yard showing the variety of locomotives to be found there, taken by me in the late 1980s - early 1990s
The photographs of the class 91s are particularly interesting. Just before the full commissioning of the electrified ECML, driver training was in progress and for some reason, during at least part of that period, the trains were terminated at Millerhill. This practise was not reported in any of the railway press as far as I know and on the day that this photograph was taken I was just making a routine visit to the yard. Prior to driving down to the yard I had stopped off at NewCraighall retail park to buy film, and was just leaving the car park when I saw this train making its was towards the yard. There then followed a high speed dash to down the lane that leads to the overbridge at the fuelling point which resulted in a burst tyre and cracked alloy wheel courtesey of a major pothole near the old scrapyard. Of course I didn't know than that the train was only going to be stabled! (91008 was the train engine with two other locomotives stabled in the background. |
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