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Brinsworth Road, ROTHERHAM, S60 5RW

On a damp day in Sheffield this view shows the south yards as they were before the tracks were ripped up. The north yards were roughly twice this size. Tinsley was built as an automated wagon sorting yard and opened in 1965 employing hump shunting and automatic retarders to control the speed of the rolling wagons. The locos on the right are stabled outside the depot which is located on top of the embankment next to where I am standing. The bridge in the distance carries the A630 over the railway.

The view from behind the locomotive depot looking across the yard where locomotives were stabled. One or two will never work again.

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 link It also carries the Yorkshire white rose logo under the cab window. The locomotive was repainted from BR blue http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3157241 to Railfreight grey. The locomotive to the right is Class 08509

The view from the bank looking across to Tinsley depot stabling sidings. These were packed out at the weekend with all the freight locos parked up.The depot has now shut and all the buildings have been demolished. There is very little freight now originating from the Sheffield and Rotherham areas. All the coal mines have shut and most of the steel works with them so the work for the depot has gone, hence its demise.

A line-up of part of Tinsley's fleet of allocated locomotives and at left ADB 965308 (snow plough). On tracks 1-6 from left to right. 1st row front to rear: 37252 - 37070 - 47227 - 47214 2nd row front to rear: 47283 3rd row front to rear: 37381 4th row front to rear: 47??? - 47??? 5th row front to rear: 47219 6th row: 37248 - 47325 - 47195

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.

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.

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.