The Final Years of the Woodhead Route 1977-1981

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The Final Years of the Woodhead Route 1977-1981The Final Years of the Woodhead Route 1977 1981 21. 95 The railway between Manchester and Sheffield via Woodhead was one of the first long distance routes in the country to be electrified and travelled through some dramatic and scenic landscapes. It also connected several important industrial locations on both sides of the Pennines, providing plenty of visual interest. Accomplished photographer and author, Michael Rhodes, explores the full course of

parallel running and so on

Locomotives featured include:

tenders and boilers along with hundreds of photographs to thoroughly illustrate our subject

Approximately 160 pages full colour approx

shows the yard before it became more associated with ballast removal and without diesel locomotives stored in great numbers ready for scrapping

Lest the Jinty be remembered only as a ’shunter’ it can be noted that plenty of passenger work came their way at first

and with the right equipment to capture the moment

Victoria station

cuttings and tunnels towards Edge Hill and Speke where we veer

Kettering to Nottingham

with some full barriers

this history uses every available resource to present as much information as possible on all the locomotives which worked on the island and includes a selection of colourised images to depict as accurately as possible the variety of liveries carried by those locomotives

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