YORK - THE RAILWAY (PART 2)

We're still at York station, as LNER 727 prepares for departure.

 

Now, it's March 1960 and A3 60038 arrives with an up express.

69016 is the station pilot, as a filthy WD 2-8-0 clanks through, again March 1960.

Now, it's 1966 and steam is almost at an end, but 62027 makes an appearance on an engineering train.

Easter 1969, with green diesels on passenger services.

2051 is the station pilot.

Ten years later and the Travellers Fare Centenary Train is on display in York station.

08707 is seen on York station pilot duties.

90026 on an overnighter.

Grand Central services call at York, en route for the County Durham coast.

Northern is in charge of the local routes.

TransPennine run towards Middlesbrough and Scarborough, etc.

Cross Country's Voyagers are a common sight.

A small amount of freight passes through.

The loco sidings can provide a bit of variety.

LNER's Azumas provide most of the workings to and from London.

Looking at all these trains can make you thirsty. The solution is on the station, the York Tap.

Back to the trains. LNER 190 shunts a carriage out of the station, passing the LMS York South loco shed.

LMS, ex L&YR, 10303 on York South shed.

Almost next door was the old railway museum, housing locos that once hauled trains over the East Coast Main Line.

There we also small exhibits, including quite a bit from the Hull & Barnsley Railway.

That's it for now. Next time we'll take a look at the city of York itself, with the river, the Minster and other historic sites.

YORK - THE RAILWAY (PART 1)

 We start our look at the railway in central York, by taking a York-West Yorkshire bus to a point where the road crosses over the complex of lines to the north of the station (Les Flint).

The view from that bridge in 1981, with Midland Compound 1000 heading north past the yards.

In early 1983, a class 08 shunts new 455 stock newly built at York Works, within this area.

BREL's York Works started out as the NER's Carriage Dept.

EWS 08665 is seen shunting the yards here in 2002.

Next, we come to York North engine shed, where, in 1937, LNER No. 2403 was photographed.

On the turntable, No. 2596.

Into BR times and 60146 is in the shed yard.

It's 1967 and 0-6-0 No. 65873 is on the ash pits (Alan Walker).

A year earlier and B1 No. 61017 is in the roundhouse.

Even after the end of steam, York North shed housed some locos destined for preservation; 7029 Clun Castle, 60019 Bittern and 4472 Flying Scotsman.

Part of York North shed became a diesel depot.

The main part of York shed was to become the National Railway Museum. Here are just a few of the exhibits.

It's not just locos, there's plenty of smaller artefacts.

Outside the rear entrance to the NRM was a brewpub, The Junction. Sadly, it no longer exists.

Now we venture to York station. The original one was a terminus, seen here on the right, while the new station is over the road.

Carriage sidings extended beside the walls towards Lendal Bridge.

The LNER and BR used the city walls as a backdrop when photographing historical motive power.

York's new station became the centre of everything North Eastern Railway.

The NER ran the majority of services into York. 758 passes Waterworks Junction signal box as it enters York station with an up train.

No. 1819 has got a bit of a problem.

The Great Central had running powers into York.

Other operators included the Midland, the GER, the GNR and the L&YR.

The next post will see us taking a look into LNER, BR and Privatisation days, plus York South shed and the old railway museum. Oh, there'll be a pint of beer as well.