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English: Down freight at Dunford Bridge. View eastward, towards Penistone and Sheffield/Wath: ex-GC Manchester - Sheffield/Wath via Woodhead main line, to be electrified in 1954 after the New Woodhead Tunnel was completed. There is no sign of the electrification masts here at Dunford Bridge in 1949, but many were erected along much of the route before World War 2. So the constant flow of freight, especially coal westward, is continuing. Here on Christmas Eve a Down Class F approaches the station past the base offices and dumps of the tunnelling contractors, with typical motive power: O4/3 No. 63771 was built in 4/18 as ROD No. 1864 for Military Service, worked in France until 1946; after repatriation in 1919 it was borrowed by the GWR as No. 3090, but saw little use and was stored at Beachley until purchased by the LNER in 3/24 to become No. 6270 (No. 3771 in 1946); it was withdrawn in 11/62. After the war it was found that the two 3-mile single-line Woodhead Tunnels (now almost 100 years old and traversed latterly by 100 steam trains a day) were almost collapsing and beyond economic repair. Therefore before the electrification could be completed a new much larger double-track tunnel would have to be built, parallel to and on the south side of the old bores. Work began in August 1949 and was completed, along with the electrification (also new stations at Dunford Bridge and Woodhead and a new bridge over the River Etherow at Woodhead) in June 1954. However, the pre-war scheme to electrify the railways through to Manchester Central, the Docks and the Trafford Park industrial area had been abandoned, 'Motorway Madness' ensued, the M62 was built instead and the whole modernised railway was closed down and ripped up (between Hadfield and Penistone) in July 1981! My brother-in-law, Andrew Sharman, was Chief Site Engineer for the Consultants, Sir William Halcrow & Partners, for the New Woodhead Tunnel (also the Thurgoland Tunnel near Sheffield). He and his family were provided with a bungalow at the Dunford Bridge temporary workers' camp, so I used to visit and was taken all over (and into) the construction works, and took photographs. (See e.g. SK1199, SE1502, SE1602. For a detailed description of the the whole project, see E.M. Johnson, 'Woodhead: the Electric Railway', Foxline, Stockport 2001: ISBN 870119 81 9). |
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