Railway Station, Worksop
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Railway Station, Worksop
Image: © Dave Hitchborne Taken: 15 Apr 1987
Class 56018 accelerates through the station with a sound loud enough to hurt your ears. These must be the noisiest diesel locomotives ever built. The 56 is taking coal to one of the Electricity Generating Stations on the Trent Valley. This locomotive, out of a total of 135, was among 30 built by Electroputere in Romania and numbered 56001 to 56030. They were considered 'poorly built' and so the next 85 were built by BREL at Doncaster Works and the remaining 20 at Crewe Works. So far, there are only five examples in preservation. None of them from Romania. Worksop Railway Station is on the Sheffield to Lincoln line. It was opened in 1849. There is a stabling point just a few hundred metres north-west of the station.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.311462
Longitude
-1.122997