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Britannia Way, ROTHERHAM, S60 5BD

Right, have you got your spotting book and pencil ready? 08509 - 08919 - 08749 - 08678 - 08492 - 08870 - 08878 - 08857 - 08880 - 08879 and 08436. Do you want me to repeat that? After always hearing that more freight was to be going by rail, the depot closed in 1998.

Class 09008 is a modified Class 08, which was re-geared for faster speed at the expense of a lower tractive effort. The locomotive was named Sheffield Children's Hospital, on September 29th 1990 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3157150 It also carries the Yorkshire white rose logo under the cab window. The locomotive was later repainted from BR blue to Railfreight grey.

Tinsley's re-railing equipment - Standing next to the diesel pumps, at the front of the depot, is, Class 08880 (one of Tinsley's allocated 0-6-0 diesel shunters) and ADRC 96704/ADB 975470

In steam is ex-LMS Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 no.44932. Designed by William A Stanier, 842 of these steam locomotives were built between 1934 and 1951. They were all withdrawn by 1968. Eleven others have survived. This one was built at Horwich Works.

This large Traction Maintenance Depot at Tinsley [coded TI], seen here in the spring of 1981, was home to a large number of locomotives in British Rail days. Today, however, the depot has closed and has been demolished. The locomotives in the picture are Class 20 diesel electric Type 2s Nos 20098 and 20211.

20003 stands on one of the refuelling points in Tinsley Depot whilst an unknown class 56 retreats into the shed. The shed doors behind the class 20 have clearly had a coming together with a locomotive at some stage. 20003 was one of the first mainline diesel locomotives from the modernisation programme, entering service in 1957. A small number of the type remain in service today.

Tinsley was provided with 3 class 13 shunters to push the trains of wagons being sorted over the hump. These were two class 08 shunters permanently coupled together with the cab of the front loco removed.

The locomotive was built as D100. Later, it was renumbered as 45060, named Sherwood Forester and painted into BR blue. It was withdrawn in December 1985, sold into private ownership, renumbered back to D100 and repainted with the original BR green livery. At the rear is Class 08870

Class 13, 13002, stands on Tinsley depot between duties. Beyond is the water tower that used to stand next to Wood Lane. Like the depot and the Class 13's it is now history. The Class 13's, of which there were only three, were created in 1965 by permanently coupling together two Class 08 shunters as a 'master and slave' with the cab of the leading shunter removed. This was a unique solution to a requirement for more powerful shunters where a larger locomotive could not be used due to the risk of grounding when carrying out hump-shunting. An explanation of Hump Shunting can be found on Wikipedia.