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Diesel locomotive towing coal trucks at Woodhouse Junction

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s42769
Diesel locomotive towing coal trucks at Woodhouse Junction
Sheffield_Woodhouse
1981/05/13
1980-1999
SCC

Further information from J Thickitt:

Formerly known as Woodhouse East Junction, where trains towards Lincoln or Grimsby had diverged eastwards from the ex-Great Central Railway main line (closed as a through route in 1966).

Among the differences to image reference number s42768 (which was photographed on the same day) are the obviously full Merry-go-Round hoppers hauled by a different class of locomotive. Diesels had been re-numbered during the early-1970s, this one becoming a member of Class 47 (the identification is deduced by the presence of a ventilation-cowl above the windscreen, here viewed in silhouette, see u09073)

The taller, brown vehicle extreme left on the nearest track was known on the railway as a van (meaning a covered waggon).

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