Down freight passing Dunford Bridge station just before opening of New Woodhead Tunnel
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Down freight passing Dunford Bridge station just before opening of New Woodhead Tunnel
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 9 Jun 1954
View eastward, towards Penistone and Sheffield/Wath: ex-GC Manchester - Sheffield/Wath via Woodhead main line, just five days before the old station and Tunnels were opened on the newly-electrified route. (See also other images at Dunford Bridge). The Class J Down mineral is headed by O4/8 2-8-0 No. 63853, LNER No. 6292 from acquisition in 1/24 until renumbered 3853 in 1946: it was built as ROD No. 2055 to Government order in 6/19, never went to France and was purchased by the LNWR in 9/19 (No. 2851), returned to the Government in 8/21 and stored at Queensferry until 1/24; it was rebuilt to O4/8 in 5/44 and eventually withdrawn in 11/63 as No. 63853.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.5175
Longitude
-1.762883