Line of resting goods engines at Canklow (Rotherham) Locomotive Depot
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Line of resting goods engines at Canklow (Rotherham) Locomotive Depot
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 10 Apr 1949
View northward, the Shed being behind camera: a line of ex-LMS (mainly Midland) 0-6-0s and 0-6-0Ts are lined up on a Sunday, including 4F No. 4128, 3F No. 43817, 2F No. 22965 and three 0-6-0Ts (the one at the end being a very old one with half-cab; note that the first engine has not acquired its initial '4' and others still have 'LMS' insignia. Canklow Shed (code 19C) had an allocation in 1950 of 53 locomotives:- 1 4-4-0, 10 2-8-0, 1 2-6-0, 36 0-6-0 and 5 0-6-0T, thus virtually all being for the heavy freight traffic of the nearby Masborough Sorting Sidings along the 'Old Road', Chesterfield - Rotherham. The Depot closed on 11/10/65.
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