Print details Picture Sheffield

Jubilee Class locomotive 45562 Alberta at Sheffield Midland railway station

Copyright This digital image, and all images on Picture Sheffield, are protected by copyright. You may use it for private study or non-commercial research, with due acknowledgement. You may share it on social media via a linked post or by citing www.picturesheffield.com together with the image Reference, unless its copyright is noted as belonging to another organisation. You must not reproduce it by any other means without permission.

Ref No:	v00566
Title:	Jubilee Class locomotive 45562 Alberta at Sheffield Midland railway station
Location:	Sheffield_City_Centre
Date:	25/06/1966
Date Period:	1960-1979
Photographer:	J Thickitt
Copyright::	SCC
Notes:	Information from John A Thickitt, photographer: The returning Bradford to Poole (Dorset) express is waiting to leave Platform 2 with the 18.25 for Bradford via Barnsley. This service was a Saturdays-only holidaymakers' train running during the peak of the summer season. During 1966 this seven or eight carriage train was always rostered for a Farnley (Leeds) shedded Jubilee, with 45562 the usual engine. On both out and return journeys there was a crew-change here. This was the last summer the train was steam-hauled. On 28 October 1967 Alberta was in-steam for the last time. Perhaps appropriately for a long-time Leeds resident, this also became the last train hauled by a British Rail-operated Jubilee. The occasion, for part of the journey, hauling a railway-enthusiasts excursion (published photograph).
Link: