Refuse lorries and electric locomotives at Sheffield
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The photograph on this page of Refuse lorries and electric locomotives at Sheffield by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Refuse lorries and electric locomotives at Sheffield
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 20 Apr 1965
Refuse lorries of the then Sheffield Corporation Cleansing depart in the yard at the refuse destruction, now replaced by a modern incineration and generation plant. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5656820 . The locomotives are two of the EM1 class BoBo 1500V DC locomotives built for the Woodhead line between Sheffield and Manchester. The refuse lorries were at the time only an incidental to the locomotives, which were the reason for taking the picture, but it is instructive to see how the design of such vehicles has changed over the years.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.386774
Longitude
-1.451929