THE BARROW HILL ENGINE SHED SOCIETY MAGAZINE Summer 2017 Price £2.50 Issue 54

Latest HLF update and photographs See page 6 Cheers to more Rail Ale success See page 14

MORE photos and stories INSIDE... A birthday present for a Peckett see page 30 Naturewatch returns See page 37 OpeningOpening Shot...Shot...

A view of the interior of the cafe as the electrics go in. Photo: Glynn Wilton

Above: The new cafe is taking shape. Below: A familiar sight - but next to a new entrance. Photos: Alexa Stott CONTENTS Chairman’s Notes 4 Heritage Lottery Fund Update 6 Roundhouse News 10 - Water Tower Refurbishment - New Barrow Hill Facilities Available For Hire - DRS, Colas and GBRf Activities - HNRC Replacement Project - Class 33 Maintenance Roundhouse Events 14 - Rail Ale 2017 - Archaeology Weekend - September Relaunch - Autumn & Christmas Events - Social Evenings 2017 Dave Darwin Remembers 24 Historical Corner 26 Department Notes 30 Volunteers’ Report 32 From the Collections Team 33 Money Matters 34 Membership Secretary’s report 36 Naturewatch 37 And Finally... 38 Who needs a caption when the photo says it all! Photo: Alexa Stott

FRONT COVER: Pupils from Springwell Community College set up a From the Manager The celebrations will continue with official public opening the week scene ready for their film about the Roundhouse. the performances of the specially after. The team here is looking Photo: Grace Escott Tebbutt commissioned “Down the Line” play on forward to showing you round. Welcome to the penultimate the evenings of Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd In 1997 I oversaw the first refurbishment newsletter of 2017. and Saturday 23rd September and the of the Roundhouse after preventing its HAVE YOU GOT A MEMORY For me this is certainly one of the most steam gala on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd demolition and its entrance into preservation. OF BARROW HILL IN important introductions I’ve ever written for and Sunday 24th September. All starring the Now twenty years on I have the honour one of our newsletters. world famous locos the National Railway STEAM OR DIESEL DAYS? of overseeing its second and more Museum’s Flying Scotsman and Tornado. Do you have photographs of The Heritage Lottery Fund supported comprehensive refurbishment which will see the depot which we could use in improvements are nearly complete and a What a great event this is set to be - its future secured for many more years. future issues of the Newsletter? whole new chapter in the history of the please pass the word around and make Please get in touch with Alexa Stott I’m very proud of everything we have all Roundhouse beckons. plans to attend yourself. by post: Barrow Hill Roundhouse, achieved. A big thank you to everyone who Campbell Drive, Barrow Hill, This new chapter will begin with the Grand But, before all this, we would like has contributed to its success and here’s to Chesterfield, S43 2PR. Reopening Gala on Thursday 21st September to invite all BHESS members to the next twenty years! Or email: [email protected] when the Chairman of the Heritage Lottery a preview day on Sunday 17th Mervyn Allcock Fund, Sir Peter Luff, will officially reopen the September from 10.00am to 2.00pm. General Manager Roundhouse and our new entrance building. This will be an opportunity to see September 2017 design print web signs the completed works prior to the 2 3 CHAIRMAN’S NOTES On your behalf, I feel great internal brick and steel work in the roof pride in the way that in the way and the external pointing of the brick work. that Barrow Hill Roundhouse is developing and progressing based This pointing work continues to a very on the work of volunteers, staff high standard with a volunteer work and the Heritage Lottery Fund. force that includes substantial support from Chesterfield College students. What “Those who drink from the well must never the visitors were unable to see was the forget those who dug the well.” excellent progress with developing the new entrance and the structural steel I’ve no idea who first penned these words work going up. but this saying I believe means everything about recognising the hard work, years As we develop our Teaching & Learning of dedication and pretty tough times that A romantic view of the car park at Rail Ale! role as a museum we contributed to the the people in the history of saving the Photo: Nigel Atkinson Festival of Archaeology on Saturday 22nd Roundhouse had to go through so that we and Sunday 23rd July 2017, supporting all can enjoy the fruits of their labour. They learnt about the people who lived in I am delighted to confirm that the HLF Barrow Hill village archaeology. People Barrow Hill and the terraced houses that project is on schedule and we are on came and learnt about the local history For the general public, “Rail Ale 2017” in can no longer be seen. There was also an target for the Grand Reopening, the and archaeology of Barrow Hill. May was the first opportunity to see the opportunity to see ground penetrating highlight of which will be the visit of two building as it was progressing. We received radar being used and investigate what lies icons of steam – A3 60103 Flying Scotsman Children had a go in our sandpit dig and lots of complimentary comments on the beneath the ground. and A1 60163 Tornado. explored the finds from nearby Staveley appearance of the building and visitors were Hall. impressed by the painting/coating of the Also under the Teaching & Learning The four day celebration is taking place initiative we are renovating a “learning from Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th Barrow Hill sunset at Rail Ale. coach” including rewiring and removing of September 2017. Photo: Nigel Atkinson rotten parts. For Members of Barrow Hill Engine Shed As part of the Heritage Lottery Society and volunteers there is a special funding we need to generate opportunity to see the Roundhouse, have matched funding and to do this a run through and help practice the launch we would like to encourage any event on 17th September before officially supportive business to become a opening the doors to the general public for Roundhouse Top Link sponsor. a truly special steam gala with visitors able to see for the first time the comprehensive We continue to attract sponsors but sympathetic HLF-funded restoration. and our latest Top Linkers are Mark and Rona Davies from Ringwood Mark Robinson Hall Hotel. We thank them. If Chairman you are intrigued please visit our website for details and the benefits.

4 5 HLF UPDATE PROJECT MANAGER UPDATE In the Roundhouse, the roof steels have all been treated and painted and the walls have also received a coat of paint. The new entrance building is complete and the glazed walls and roof show off upgraded with a new lighting system to the original brick window and arches enhance the exhibitions that will soon just as well as we’d planned. At the adorn the walls. time of writing the kitchen equipment is being fitted. After a final clear up the In the Foreman’s office the three windows new furniture will arrive in time for the have been restored back to their original September relaunch. The blue brick floor style. This area will form of the old eating area has now been re-laid the start of the new visitor interpretation on top of an underfloor heating system. trail around the site. The new exhibitions This will be much warmer on the feet for are nearly complete and will tell the Some handy DIY guides “just in case” The old eating area with its re-laid blue our visitors than the old overhead gas fascinating story of the site as well as the HLF building team run out of ideas! brick floor and new lighting system. powered heating system! Of course our including fun interactives for children. In Photo: Alexa Stott Photo: Alexa Stott coal fires will also be burning again when addition, the new ‘learning coach’ is getting with its new flooring and will soon have As well as the new toilets in the entrance winter arrives. This area has also been ready to host school trips and family days a polish with some lighting and audio extension, the existing Roundhouse toilets equipment for fun activities. have also had a full refurbishment. The new extension is taking shape - the original building can clearly be seen through the glass. In addition to all of this, we have had some Photo: Glynn Wilton volunteers and members of the public join us on our free heritage training days, where they have been trained to repoint the walls of the Roundhouse, joining students from Chesterfield College in learning this fantastic new skill. The refurbishment of the engineering workshop as part of the HLF project has also been completed. It was undertaken by Jon Pridmore and is going to be a very useful asset to the site. On behalf of Barrow Hill Roundhouse Jon will be hosting external workshop training courses as well as training our own volunteers. Newly overhauled windows. Glynn Wilton, Project Manager Photo: Alexa Stott

6 7 HLF UPDATE continued... LEARNING & ACCESS OFFICER fireboxes ready for children to undertake UPDATE the fireman’s challenge. They’ll be painted and ready to go by October. So far, we The relaunch in September will see the have several bookings for schools to school and family learning programme come and experience the Roundhouse. really getting underway. The site will be In September, Brimington Brownies will open to pre-booked school visits during be paying us a visit as our first guests to the week and the normal open weekends experience the new learning programme will resume with more activities for on site. We will also be hosting Brimington children and families to take part in. During School on their annual school walk on 6th weekends there will be activity trails for October, when they will be stopping at the families to do around the site, as well as Roundhouse for their lunch break and a our new exhibitions and interactives. Some of the volunteers get to grips with lime mortaring. snoop around the new site and shop. However, there has still been plenty going Photo: Mervyn Allcock We have also won a small pot of funding on during the site closure in preparation A number of our own volunteers and to carry out a project with Andy Stratton for this. from the Department of Computer members of the public have benefitted Roy Kitchener with the replica We’ve had Stacey Downing from from her tuition and had a hand in firebox model ready to be Science at Hallam University. Chesterfield College leading training repointing sections of the Roundhouse painted and used by schools. We will be holding two workshops sessions in lime mortar repointing on walls, contributing to the overall Photo: Grace Escott Tebbutt with local schools, who will be working several occasions over the summer. restoration programme. with Andy in programming their own We are hoping to put on more of these interactive exhibition pieces inspired by training sessions in the coming months and the Roundhouse. next year, so keep an eye out – particularly as they are totally free! To finish off, we will be welcoming a new Learning & Access Officer from the We have also had several visits from some beginning of December as I will be leaving local Springwell Community College for a year on maternity leave. students, who have been filming and producing a short film for our learning Grace Escott Tebbutt programme. The film will be used as an Learning & Access Officer introduction to the Roundhouse for Lining up for another shot with visiting schools. The students have been Springwell Community College. deciding what they wanted to film and Photo: Grace Escott Tebbutt how they wanted to do it, and we’re really looking forward to seeing the results. From September schools will be able to book in for a range of facilitated school workshops. These will include ‘Working at the Roundhouse’ where children can learn Stacey gives a master class in lime about the jobs workers did here during mortaring to Don and Paul. the steam era. One of our volunteers, Roy Photo: Grace Escott Tebbutt Kitchener, has been making some replica

8 9 HEADLINE NEWS & NEWSLINES One of the bigger projects currently being undertaken on site that isn’t part of the HLF funded works is the refurbishment of the Water Tower by our resident joiner Eddie Wilkinson and his colleague Steve Gambles. Works includes the installation of a second floor (complete), a hoist which will be fitted shortly and the movement of the rainwater collection system to a purpose built area behind the site toilets next to the Water Tower. This photo (right) One of the many main line moves in and out of the site took place on 9th July when Barrow Hill-based shows the doorway arch beneath the water operator Colas brought in two Class 60s. Pictured tank midway through refurbishment. are 60095 and 60026. Photos: Mervyn Allcock On 5th May DRS undertook some onsite power unit swaps to ensure the Class 20 fleet was ready for the Rail Head Treatment Trains contract later this year. Photo: Mervyn Allcock Photo: Mervyn Allcock

News of our new facilities travels fast! We are already taking bookings for events that will take place in the new entrance building and the Roundhouse itself. On 2nd November we will welcome Chesterfield Champions and their ‘Made in Chesterfield’ launch event. Guests will include many local businesses who may well be encouraged to book their own events with us too. Then on 23rd November we are hosting Trains for their VIP Annual Awards Evening.

The relocation of the water reclamation system is now underway to make more room in the Water Tower for the Pictured outside the HNRC depot on 15th May are Colas Class 47 47739 and joiners shop. Class 37 37175, which arrived on site for routine maintenance by HNRC staff. Photos: Mervyn Allcock Photo: Mervyn Allcock 10 11 HEADLINE NEWS & NEWSLINES continued...

One of the regular commercial GBRf moves in and out of the site on 12th August shows Class 66 66772 bringing in the barrier wagons and Class 20s (used on the London Underground new stock moves). Photo: Mervyn Allcock

On 25th August HNRC started work outside their depot to renew worn out track and improve the drainage. The newly completed track work is shown two days later.

The Class 33111 Group’s Class 33 33108 is seen in the head shunt on 2nd May, having been tested after maintenance work had been carried out and prior to its departure on tour. Photo: Mervyn Allcock All Photos: Mervyn Allcock 12 13 EVENTS RAIL ALE 2017 HITS THE The event started on Thursday 18th May to be extended! The Cider and Craft Keg HEIGHTS with a VIP lunch, served with a variety bars were also stocked with more choice of beers of course, and a talk by guest than ever before. New for this year – This year’s Rail Ale Festival once again speaker Keith Bott MBE, MD of Titanic and a massive hit – was the Prosecco Bar. proved that beers and trains are an Brewery in Stoke-on-Trent. Also on This will be back next year and there are irresistible combination. Over three Thursday the Beer of the Festival was plans to increase the drinks selection days, over 7,000 people came from all judged and congratulations go to the further in 2018. Those that might have parts of the country – and further afield winner of this year’s accolade – Ashover worried that this choice would only be from the likes of Australia and Japan too Brewery with Thor Cake. This beer available during the first day and a half of – to enjoy the unique atmosphere of the beat off stern competition from a great the Festival needn’t have done so. In a Rail Ale Festival. selection of ales from local and national brilliant example of cellar management at Thanks in part to the ongoing Heritage breweries and the judges all agreed that 6pm on the Saturday evening there were Lottery Fund supported building works, they’d had a hard afternoon blind tasting still over half of the beers available and which were halted temporarily for over 80 beers! Thursday was rounded Photo: Alexa Stott nearly 60 ciders as well as a great range the Festival to take place, the whole off with the arrival of 350 visitors who were sourced from all over the UK of bottled beers and fruit wines. Roundhouse building was used for the had travelled from London by high speed and closer to home the Derbyshire Bar Rail Ale 2018 will take place first time this year. With a large marquee train directly into the Festival. Two and a made full use of the extra space allotted on 17th, 18th and 19th May as well as outdoor seating areas there half hours door to door with 350 beers to it. If this bar carries on growing at the 2018. Tickets go on sale on 1st was plenty of space for visitors, even at at your destination isn’t a bad day out. current rate the Roundhouse will have December 2017. the busiest times during the three days. Friday and Saturday continued the theme Everyone agreed that the new layout, still of rail and ale with more rail tours with the steam and diesel locomotives coming in from Derby, Sheffield and as backdrops to the bars and on the Chesterfield. Many visitors took the turntable, was a welcome improvement. opportunity to take a ride not only on the usual internal shuttles that travel up and down the Roundhouse’s railway line but also to take a beer or two on a train trip out to Chesterfield and back. In the meantime New Orleans Jazz and Ashover Brass Band entertained the crowd in the marquee whilst on the main stage bands from Chesterfield, , Derby and Sheffield had the Roundhouse rocking until time was called at 11pm. The aptly named Beer Monsters and highly rated Sheffield band Highway Child, complete with four piece brass ensemble, were the highlights of a great Festival line up. Pre-event publicity had promised an even bigger line up of beers than last year and Photo: Alexa Stott the Rail Ale team duly delivered. Beers Photo: Alexa Stott

14 15 EVENTS continued... A VIEW FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGY WEEKEND PLATFORM The Roundhouse hosted an open What a great success the Rail Ale weekend on 22nd and 23rd July in Festival proved to be, not just for the advance of our planned archaeology connoisseurs of beer and cider but for dig next summer as part of the national the interesting classic traction on the Festival of Archaeology. Andrew Wilson shuttle services, which proved to be an kindly came all the way from Newcastle event in its own right! to carry out some ground penetrating radar (GPR) on the site where the dig With no steam loco available, the event will take place. Mick Cherry, ex-resident shuttle was operated by the Class 40 of the ‘Long Row’ - the row of terraced 40012 Aureol and the Class 03 03066. houses which stretched out from the The resplendent Class 40 was on the Roundhouse car park towards Campbell ‘country end’ with the venerable 03 Photo: Alexa Stott Drive - helped us to mark the spot gamely following on to haul the train where we might find some evidence of back into the platform. The main line All the locos performed faultlessly and what could be under the ground. It was The ground penetrating radar service, operated with a Class 37 and a were a credit to the owners and those all very ‘Time Team’ and we are excited survey gets underway. Class 31, was a new addition for Rail Ale that maintain these now over 50 year to see what Andrew managed to find! Photo: Grace Escott Tebbutt and proved a great success. old locomotives. And we shouldn’t forget the Barrow Hill volunteers – the It was quite a sight to see four members crossing keeper, point clamper, guards of different traction in the platforms and platform staff – who all did a brilliant at the Roundhouse working passenger job in rain and shine with platforms full trains and many visitors, not only here of people to keep all the trains to time. for the beer, enjoyed the spectacle. Dave Darwin

Uncovering hidden treasure at the Roundhouse. Photo: Grace Escott Tebbutt Photo: Alexa Stott 16 17 EVENTS continued... We also had a wonderful display of artefacts in the Roundhouse from archaeologists Mike McCoy and Richard Jackson, who delivered the recent community archaeology dig at Staveley Hall. In addition, our sandpit dig was very popular with younger visitors and we had plenty of intrigued visitors asking about progress with the Roundhouse. The archaeology dig will be taking place in 2018 and 2019. Keep your eyes peeled for more information. Some of the finds from a recent dig at Staveley Hall were also SEPTEMBER RELAUNCH on display in the Roundhouse. Photo: Grace Escott Tebbutt Since the last Newsletter was published it has been confirmed that Sir Peter The show will involve a cast of Above: New Orleans Jazz entertain the crowds in the marquee on the Friday afternoon of Rail Ale. Luff, Chairman to the Board of the professional actors and local people, Below: Rail Ale sponsors, Castle Rock Brewery of Nottingham, welcome visitors to the festival. National Heritage Memorial Fund and including a community choir and Ireland Photos: Alexa Stott Heritage Lottery Fund will be visiting Colliery Chesterfield Brass Band. the Roundhouse on Thursday 21st The audience will be an integral part of September to view the comprehensive the play as they follow the drama in and National Lottery-funded restoration and around the Roundhouse building. officially open our new entrance building. The play tells the story of Barrow Hill The celebrations to mark the from the coming of the railways to the completion of the £1.2 million present day and our guide is a fictional restoration will continue as the Grand Site Foreman, “Shunter”, whose family Reopening Gala commences on Friday have lived in the area for generations. 22nd September, continuing on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th September. As you would expect, there has been great interest in our September As you already know the gala will star reopening events. Advance tickets are two icons of steam, the National Railway still on sale through www.seetickets.com. Museum’s A3 60103 Flying Scotsman and We are now also offering a ‘Pay on the A1 60163 Tornado. Gate’ option for each day of the Grand It has also now been agreed that Flying Reopening Gala. Scotsman will be one of the stars of “Down the Line”, the play commissioned However, please note that it is still specially for the relaunch. cheaper to buy advance tickets. Another continued on page 23 18 Picture This. . . A busy Roundhouse on the Friday afternoon of Rail Ale and (inset) a very different view only 48 hours earlier. Photos: Alexa Stott EVENTS continued... advantage is that Advance ticket holders AUTUMN & CHRISTMAS will be able to gain admission from EVENTS 9.00am. The Roundhouse will be open to visitors Pay on the Gate ticket holders will not throughout the October half term week be admitted until 10.30am. Last entry (21st to 29th October). Lots of family for all ticket holders is 3.00pm. Tickets activities are being planned. are priced as follows: Before closing for Christmas, there will Pay on the Gate Advance* be two events. On 5th December, there will be an evening session with visitors Adults £25.00 £22.00 learning how to make their own felted Children £13.00 £11.00 (16 and under, under 5s free) Christmas decorations. Family £59.00 £53.00 On Saturday 9th December the More sights from Rail Ale 2017 including an awful lot of empty beer barrels! Photos: Alexa Stott (2 adults & 2 children) Roundhouse will be once again be in *includes a booking fee. festive mode as we repeat last year’s highly successful Christmas Family Fun Members’ tickets are also available at a Day. There will be plenty to do for discounted rate of £17.00. children and adults. You should call the Seetickets hotline on Further details of these events, including 0871 230 5538 (calls cost 13p per minute entry charges, will appear on the website plus your usual rates). and our Facebook page nearer the time. You will need to quote a discount Don’t forget to keep an eye on the code which you can obtain by emailing Barrow Hill website and on our [email protected]. Facebook and Twitter pages for detailed and up-to-date information on all our A ‘Pay on the Gate’ option for “Down forthcoming events. the Line” is now also available. Doors and bar open at 6.30pm, SOCIAL EVENINGS performances commence at 7.30pm and Our popular Social Evenings return to the finish at 9.30pm. Tickets are priced as Roundhouse on 19th October when, most follows: appropriately, the guest speaker will be Mr Barrow Hill himself - Mervyn Allcock. Pay on the Gate Advance* The social evening on 14th September Adults £15.00 £13.20 will be the last to take place at Children £7.50 £6.60 Hollingwood Hub. Our thanks go to (16 and under) the Chesterfield Canal Trust for allowing *includes a booking fee. us to use their facilities during the refurbishment work. Watch out for the details of the 2018 Social Evenings in the next Newsletter. 23 DAVE DARWIN REMEMBERS... Hathern, Trent, Loughborough on was not uncommon for someone not the Derby to Birmingham line and used to the class of loco to wind it Brentingby, Melton Mowbray, Oakham down, thinking he had put the hand Steam Locomotive on the Leicester to Peterborough line. brake on. When the locomotive was next moved, the scoop would catch 3. Barrow Hill 8Fs and some 4Fs were on something in the four-foot and the Water Scoops fitted with scoops but these were driver’s comments cannot be repeated rarely used on freight trains as they In the Roundhouse there are two steam to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s here! locomotives fitted with water scoops Coronation in 1953. didn’t go fast enough. for picking up water on the move – the 5. Warning signs were erected at the There were six sets of troughs on the 4. The water scoop handle could always LNER Director Class Butler Henderson start of a water trough which were 392 mile journey between London King’s be identified on locomotives as they and the LMS Compound 1000. Looking illuminated at night. Cross and Edinburgh Waverley keeping were secured by a chain. Even so it under the of the Compound, the the A4 Class locomotives topped up water scoop can be seen in the raised with water. The last “Non-Stop” as it position. was always known ran in September When a locomotive needed to take on 1961. More shots from a fantastic Rail Ale 2017 water, this scoop would be lowered by The Up Service was worked by A4 the fireman when passing over the water 60009 Union of South Africa, which is filled trough between the rails. These no stranger to Barrow Hill. A one-off troughs were around 600 yards long and special “Non-Stop” was run in May situated on a level stretch of track. At a 1968 with A3 Flying Scotsman. At the speed of about 50-60mph 1500 to 2000 end of steam some water troughs were gallons of water would be lifted. retained for diesel locomotives like the In the heyday of steam, there were 141 famous Deltics and the EE Class 40 to sets of troughs. However, there were take on water to top up the boiler water none on the Southern Railway so no SR tank for the steam heating generator locomotives were fitted with scoops. which the loco’s second man operated. Water troughs were first used by the The water pick up equipment was LNW Railway as long ago as 1860 on the operated not by the strong arm of a North Wales line to Holyhead. fireman but by simply moving a switch Finding suitable locations was the biggest which operated the air controlled problem for the railway companies. scoop! Most railways aren’t that level! On the steeply graded line between Manchester Five interesting facts about and Huddersfield the troughs were water troughs: situated in Standedge Tunnel as this was 1. The closest troughs to Barrow Hill the only suitable stretch of line on the were situated on the old Great route. Central line between Killamarsh and Renishaw and filled from the adjacent Water troughs enabled long non-stop Chesterfield Canal. runs to be worked, like the famous “Flying Scotsman”, renamed “The 2. Barrow Hill crews worked over Capitals Limited”, then “The Talisman” the troughs at Wiggington between before becoming “The Elizabethan” Burton-on-Trent and Tamworth, at 24 25 HISTORICAL CORNER NO. 45 THE RAILWAYS THAT NEVER Unfortunately, the Bill was rejected at THE SHEFFIELD, doubly unfortunate for the promoters WERE the Parliamentary review stage. The CHESTERFIELD & STAFFORD that the Duke owned a lavish house principal cause for complaint was that RAILWAY (1864) which stood in the way and very close to We have oft debated within these pages there were irregularities in the listings where the projected new station was to how the early railway network of the of residential and commercial properties As might be expected, there were the be built in central Sheffield. The stately British Isles was developed. Every proposal to be acquired by compulsory purchase. usual objections from the existing railway pile was called “The Farm” but this was for a new railway had to firstly obtain an As the promoters of the scheme had not companies, who considered that this only a romantic title as it was a wholly Act of Parliament but there were other adequately evaluated this vital requirement, proposal would be an invasion of their residential property. The landed gentry of goals to be achieved after that, not least of it unfortunately cast great doubt upon established territory. The Manchester the day were obsessed with not having which was the securing of the necessary the accuracy of the whole scheme. The Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, together the panoramic view from the windows of funds, plus getting the venture built and proposed design of the civil engineering with the North Staffordshire Railway, their property being spoilt due to railway operational strictly within the allotted along the route was also brought into were thus the main opponents to the Bill. activities, especially belching smoke from timescale. If failure befell the project at question. Consequently, the proposal was Conversely, Sheffield Corporation were the steam locomotives. The Duke insisted any stage after obtaining the Parliamentary thrown out. wholly in favour as the line would give that the railway would have to be built in a approval, then a return to Westminster local industry in South Yorkshire a more tunnel under the grounds of his estate but would be required in order to obtain an THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD direct route to London as well as a link this, of course, would vastly inflate the cost “Act of Abandonment”. Only then could & MIDLAND into Staffordshire. of the project. However, the most daunting the promoters be freed of their legal RAILWAY (1845) What is today called the “Old Road” via prospect from the construction standpoint obligations. Four examples of such demise was considered to be a much longer and within the Derbyshire area are presented The line survey for the aforementioned Barrow Hill was the first railway to reach Sheffield but it was built in two sections. costly double track tunnel under the village here. These seek to explain the often Sheffield & Chesterfield Junction Railway of Bradway, north of Dronfield. The tunnel convoluted and complex tales of our was subsequently revised after the The Sheffield & Rotherham Railway had opened in 1838. The North Midland was estimated to require an excavation railway history. proposal of 1843 had been rejected by of more than 2,000 yards (1.829 km) in Parliament. A second Act with a new Railway then built the connecting line from Rotherham to Chesterfield, which length, which would be hand dug through THE SHEFFIELD & title was now proposed. There were, a rock formation and required to be brick however, opponents to the scheme. The was authorised by Parliament in 1847. CHESTERFIELD JUNCTION This circuitous route to serve Sheffield lined throughout due to the weakness of RAILWAY (1843) main objector was the 14th Duke of the strata. Norfolk, Henry Fitzalan-Howard (1815- was chosen with good reason as it offered The proposal under this title had a very 60), who was principal land owner in the easy gradients without any extravagant During the Parliamentary investigations, short life but it would have offered great Sheffield area. He also happened to be the civil engineering works. Not for nothing the shaky finances of the SC&S Railway potential as a viable railway had it been chairman of the Sheffield Coal Company was the line sarcastically called “George came to light when there were questions a success. At the time from due south and once again their monopoly was being Stephenson’s billiard table”! The official asked concerning the share subscriptions. of Sheffield there was no direct railway threatened. The Midland Railway also opening of the line as far as Rotherham Enquiries were made, especially with the route to London. The scheme also had fought against the proposal and engaged Masbrough station took place in 1870. This shareholders who apparently accounted the advantage that it proposed to open none other than Robert Stephenson route allowed a through train service from for more than £100,000 of the projected up the potential of the coal mining district (George’s son) to criticise the deposited London to reach the Wicker passenger funding. It turned out that these were surrounding Dronfield and especially the plans and especially the steep gradients station and goods terminal in the centre of mostly poor people, who had bought the neighbouring village of Unstone where of the line. He added that this fault in Sheffield. shares only to sell them on hopefully for there was high unemployment. This would the design would permanently impose However, in Sheffield the aforementioned a profit at a later date. The actual value have also broken the local monopoly of limitations on train loadings and line speed. Duke of Norfolk would have to be of the shares was discovered to be only the Sheffield Coal Company and offered Consequently, this projected scheme also appeased if the necessary land for this £70,000. This revelation caused concern new opportunities to serve industry and failed. new railway was to be acquired. It was about the whole venture. There were the communities further south by rail. 26 27 HISTORICAL CORNER NO. 45 continued... expected difficulties and expense of the line, where the modern carriage washing diverge from a junction off the LD&ECR’s Great Eastern Railway also got involved in necessary tunnelling, the questionable plant now stands. The northern portal of existing route at Horn’s Bridge in an alliance to prop up the ailing LD&ECR finances, together with the objections of the abandoned tunnel still proudly bears Chesterfield. The locations to be served to the sum of £250,000. The proviso was the MS&L and NSR railways. The Enabling the “Wyvern” emblem of the Midland along the route were Wingerworth (which that the GER then had access and running Act was therefore dismissed by Parliament. Railway, carved into the stone. The Duke’s would provide a connection to the existing rights to reach the lucrative traffic offered sidings of the Clay Cross Colliery No. by the coalfields of Derbyshire. This was Eventually, at the fourth attempt, part residence had survived all this upheaval 9), then onwards to Tupton, where there achieved by a physical connection between of the projected route of the SC&S but, in an amusing twist of irony, the was to be another connection to the Clay the two railways near Lincoln at Pyewipe between Sheffield and Chesterfield was building was now being used as offices Cross Company. Next, the township of Junction. to be of interest to the Midland Railway. and occupied by the Midland Railway Pilsley would be reached. Here, the line They subsequently prepared their own as its local administrative headquarters. The heyday of the so-called “Railway would serve the village of Morton and also proposals, entitled as The Midland Railway It was in continuous use by the LMS Boom” had certainly passed its peak by access the coke ovens at Morton Colliery. (Sheffield & Chesterfield) Act, which was and BR until it was closed in 1965 and the time that this Act was granted in 1902. The end of the branch was to be at a at last successful and finally received the subsequently demolished. The railway There was a national decline in industry connection joining the existing sidings at Royal Assent in June 1864. This double office accommodation was then relocated coupled with a financial crash looming at Clay Cross Colliery No. 7. track line was eventually opened to adjacent to the frontage of Sheffield the banks. It was simply a case that the traffic from Tapton Junction (north of station in a new purpose-built tower block The LD&ECR was of course a vital proposal for this line came too late and Chesterfield) to the new Sheffield Midland building known as Sheaf House. supporter of the scheme as it would the necessary capital could not be found. station in 1870. The line is often referred stand to gain financially from the fees Rival railway companies (see above) had to as the “New Road” to differentiate it THE CLAY CROSS RAILWAY required for running powers of “foreign” already claimed the lions’ share of the from the North Midland route via Barrow (1902) traffic emanating from the Clay Cross local traffic such as it was. Consequently, Hill. The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East district, which must run over their own there was now insufficient railway traffic lines. However, the LD&ECR was already to share amongst any late comers. Had As a postscript to this saga, the 14th Duke Coast Railway had obtained their Act of overstretched financially with its own the scheme evolved 20 years or so earlier, of Norfolk had died in 1860. Now another Parliament in 1891 and they reached their future dreams for a coast-to-coast railway. the line would probably have been built line, known as the Dore & Chinley Railway, Chesterfield Market Place station in 1897. This grandiose scheme was never to as intended. This railway none the less was to come into Sheffield Midland station They were the last on the scene behind achieve its ambition of linking shipping came very close to fruition, but an Act from the west. This necessitated the the (later renamed ports in the West next to the Irish Sea of Abandonment was required as a legal capacity of the main line being increased to the Midland Railway) and the Manchester, (together with a connection en route to necessity and this was granted in 1905. It four tracks. The Midland Railway’s patience Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (later to serve the Manchester Ship Canal) and as was recorded that the embryonic railway was now rewarded. They had acquired become the ). The far as Warrington. Likewise, in the East on had not exercised any of its statutory more of the late Duke’s land south of arrival of these three independent railways the Lincolnshire part of the North Sea powers to acquire the necessary land (as Sheffield station, and with it his former to the Chesterfield area were explained coastline, another port was intended at granted by the original Act of 1902) and residence at The Farm. This expansion in Historical Corner No. 44 and it is the Sutton-on-Sea. It was not to be, principally no physical construction work had yet work was started in 1894 when the part played by the LD&ECR which now because the funding could not be been started. All shares and loans had to tunnel which passed under the late Duke’s concerns us here. sourced. An Act of Abandonment for the be returned in full and any contracts legally property was demolished and opened out The proposed Clay Cross Railway had Chesterfield & Warrington, together with cancelled. For further information about to form a brick lined cutting. Eventually successfully obtained its Act of Parliament the Lincoln to Sutton-on-Sea sections, was the district, a potted history of the Clay in 1901, the expansion of the railway was in 1902. The projected route was to be obtained in 1895. Cross Company may be found in Historical complete. for a branch line having a total length of 7 Corner No. 43. Only one section of the East-West portion A fragment of the original 1870 track miles 4 furlongs (11.35 km) and intended of the line from Chesterfield Market Place Vignoles alignment can still be seen today just south to reach the rich mineral deposits of the station as far as Lincoln was ever built. The of Sheffield station on the west side of the Clay Cross area. The new line was to 28 29 3 6 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT NOTES

Barrow Hill stalwart Peckett 2 2000 will sadly be missing from the line up at the September Grand Reopening Gala. However, as Peter Kennan, the locomotive’s owner reports, real progress is being made in Loughborough, where the locomotive is currently undergoing its 10-year overhaul. Peckett photo 8: The ashpan: just like Built in 1942, it is Peckett 2000’s 75th We were able to get some original Peckett an ashpan on a domestic grate but much birthday this year. I’m very proud that the drawings held in the archive at the National Peckett photo 6: The new firehole door bigger. It was a replacement at some point work we are currently doing should help Railway Museum for boiler, firebox, injectors ring and backhead insert are machined and and has been fabricated out of metal that see the loco to 85 years old. It’s not a bad and much more. It is only when you do a drilled. LMS have trial fitted them and are is too thin. It has buckled, split, bent and birthday present - to be totally restored to project like this that you see the amazing in the process of grinding them ready for cracked. The ashpan is supposed to catch as good as new as we could ever get. We archive that the museum holds. A massive welding them in. the ash and constrain oxygen flow but have set out to cut no corners and bottom part of our steam heritage. because of its poor condition oxygen out each and every issue. David Wright 4 Peckett photo 2: The new foundation could enter and cinders could escape with and his team at Locomotive Maintenance ring. It has been dressed up and then a fire risk to lineside vegetation as a result. Services at Loughborough are doing a marked up ready for drilling and the fantastic job. drilling has commenced. This fits on the Photos by Peter Kennan Sadly, the loco will not be quite ready bottom of the firebox. for the Barrow Hill big event on 21st Peckett photo 3: The inner frames are 7 September. It looks like we will miss it all cleaned, spot primed and are now 50% due to, amongst other things, our boiler painted into the new coat of red. You can inspector having to deal with power station just see the front buffers. boilers during the summer shutdown! Peckett photo 4: The wheels have all been Peckett photo 1: The girders have cleaned, rubbed down, spot primed and are in Peckett photo 7: This is the new skirt come back from the shot blasters. They the process of having a second coat of green. that has been welded onto the bottom of have all been crack tested and re-fitted Proper Peckett green to the right from a paint the firebox. Very neat work. to the boiler and bolted into position. company in Walsall who checked back to the (Remember the boiler is upside down!) previous order. I would like to think they have 5 been holding a stock of Peckett green since 8 the 1960s just in case but I think the paint 1 industry is a bit more sophisticated than that. Original wrong green to the left! Peckett photo 5: The coupling rods have been machined, new pins and bushes done and the rods have had one coat of red, ready for re-fitting once the wheels are finished. 30 31 VOLUNTEERS’ REPORT FROM THE COLLECTIONS TEAM Since our last report the We have been getting ready to volunteers have been very busy move into our new Collections on the side lines whilst the HLF area, which comprises half of the contractors have been doing old shop space and our original the major works. We have been store room. backing them up by doing all the Contractors have installed new roller odd jobs that have come up that The new Foreman’s office window. Photo: Alexa Stott racking in our store room. If Glynn’s aren’t in their remit. calculations are correct, this will give us Frank Rowley, our joiner, made a superb We have painted the floor in Albert’s approximately 40% more shelving than job of making the old café door look like Room (the new exhibition space near we had before. The contractors turned the new (old fashioned) doors and no one the shear legs) several times ready for up to build the racking unannounced so would know the difference. the exhibition people to transform it into we had to give the room a coat of white paint - to reflect the light - after the When the contractors took down the something wonderful. racking had been installed. So if you ever stud walls and ceilings in the old Foreman’s A lot of the furniture that was hanging get a chance to look behind the end panels office and Signing On Point, the volunteers around the Roundhouse has been sorted of the racking you will see there is no recycled the timbers by de-nailing them and where appropriate recycled. paint because that bit of wall never gets and putting them to one side for future The new roller racking, exposed. Well at least it saved on paint! use. Don Cambridge complete with (almost) painted walls. Carpet tiles which the contractors The new window frame for the Foreman’s Photo: Don Cambridge salvaged from another job have been fitted office mentioned in the last Newsletter in the office area. Hardboard was laid first was all made from this timber. However, we can’t move in until all the to give an even surface and the carpet electrical work is finished, including a data The brake van was eventually finished and tiles made a neat job and also saved us the cabinet with all its computer and internet taken out of the shed which then allowed expense of flooring contractors. gizmos. us to “settle” into our new corner of the We have fitted worktops in the office area Roundhouse near the Sand Dryer. Don Cambridge as we thought it would save on space. Cupboards and tools were sorted and tidied. The old entrance to the Sand Dryer up the ladder above the corner The work benches are in place but there’s still plenty to do to get lock up, has been tidied and some spares the Collections office ready. “rationalised”. This will make finding things Photo: Don Cambridge easier when we eventually get proper access steps to this under-used space. Martyn Brailsford and his track work team have been doing some midweek and weekend repairs to sleepers and timbers. For those not in the know, timbers are the larger items that support point work and are thicker and a lot heavier than sleepers, Frank’s new old door - or is it an old new door? and so take much more effort to handle. Photo: Mervyn Allcock 32 33 MONEY MATTERS Welcome to the second alternates between the gala and the play; you first time that the line “Order a new shop” to drain off it. Needless to say as we were “Money Matters” of the year, just have to wait for the event that you want has appeared on my daily “to do” list! setting up the heavens opened and we were and click on it when it appears. There is a all getting drenched. A DRS official let us go and even though we have been I am excited by the new opportunities for reduced members’ rate for the gala. off site to buy a gazebo, which was a good closed to the public for most both the cafe and shop, and expect them job as after some heavy showers in the both to be even more successful in the of the year (with the notable morning, we suffered continuous rain from SHOP! AND CAFÉ future in their new premises; both are on exception of the beer festival) 1.00pm onwards. there has been plenty of activity Both of these departments are looking the route that visitors will take into and out happening on site and now forward to operating from new premises of the Roundhouse so that will undoubtedly Nevertheless, we accomplished our mission we are looking forward to our very soon. An important feature of the new help too. of giving out plenty of our September leaflets and we even sold a modest amount of arrangements is that we have very carefully Come and have a look for yourself at our imminent Grand Reopening! merchandise before the afternoon rain. We planned things so that although admission Members’ Day on Sunday 17th September. EVENTS – RAIL ALE AND charges will apply for entry to the museum asked some of the locals when or if there and Roundhouse, visitors will still be able to The excellent bookazine (terrible word, was ever a summer in Carlisle and they SEPTEMBER RELAUNCH gain access to both the shop and cafe free of though!) “Barrow Hill – Past, Present and replied that they usually get a couple of days Our annual beer festival was held over the charge. We would not want to deter anyone Future” written by Ben Jones and published of summer but that it is hard to say when it period Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th from coming to spend money in these areas! by the publishers of The Railway Magazine will be – it certainly was not this day! May, and very successful it was too with and Heritage Railway, will be on sale at £6.99 I am heavily involved in the new shop and a visiting High Speed Train load of visitors in our shop with all profits going to Barrow AGM AND ANNUAL can speak mostly about that aspect of the arriving from London on the Thursday and Hill. project. Glynn Wilton, our project manager ACCOUNTS an increased number of visitors paying at for “Moving Forward”, kindly arranged a the gate over the three days despite a small At our successful Annual General Meeting very useful visit to Barrow Hill by a retail BARROW HILL ON TOUR – price increase on last year’s charge. on Sunday 30th July, I explained the content consultant, John Prescott (no, not that one, CARLISLE IN SUMMER of the Barrow Hill Engine Shed Society It was pleasing to see a locomotive hauled he didn’t punch me!). On Saturday 22nd July I left home at the Limited (BHESS) accounts for the year train service running on Friday and Saturday John is hugely experienced in retail matters unearthly hour of 3.30am to pick up Mick ended 31st December 2015. transporting passengers from Derby, Hesketh and Robin Oxborough en route to and has worked exclusively in the heritage Since then, I have furnished our Reporting Chesterfield and Sheffield directly in to the the biennial Direct Rail Services Open Day retail sector since 1979. Accountants, Forrester Boyd, with accounts site. at their Kingmoor depot in Carlisle. We met In the morning he gave me some very useful for 2016 for both BHESS and its trading A moment of mirth occurred during Peter Roberts in Carlisle. tips on fitting out the new shop and the subsidiary, Barrow Hill Limited, so that these adversity on the Friday evening when both merchandise that will sell best for us, as well Armed with wallpaper tables, maroon table can be completed for filing with Companies’ of our “free” buses were out of service for as some useful contacts. cloths, a small amount of our merchandise House in time for the deadline of 30th a time with mechanical problems. We joked and, most importantly, plenty of our September, so I am currently busy answering in the Gatehouse that we should be running This was followed by a presentation in September events leaflets, we started setting their queries. a “bus replacement train service” for our the afternoon which was also attended by up our stall around 8.00am. I had been visitors! (© Becky Atkinson). representatives from Creswell Crags and saying all week that I would not buy, and we THE HLF PROJECT AND VAT Crich Tramway Museum. It was a most useful We are now looking forward to the would not need, a gazebo to cover our stall day. RECLAIMS big events in September – the “Grand and ourselves as I was confident that unlike Throughout the year I have been paying Reopening Gala” and our community play, John recommended a company which previous years’ visits, it would actually be a invoices associated with “Moving Forward”, “Down the Line”, both of which feature specialises in the fitting out of heritage fine summer’s day in Carlisle. the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) financed Flying Scotsman and Tornado. sector shops and following a site meeting, The last two gazebos that we have used project, which have included monthly five numerous telephone calls and email They will both be excellent. Tickets are there ended up in the bin due to irreparable or six figure bills for the building work. exchanges I have finally established exactly available for both events online at www. storm damage and I didn’t fancy any more Glynn Wilton, our Project Manager, reclaims what we require and agreed a price within seetickets.com. There is a link via the expense and having to press on the roof promptly the agreed percentage (88%) of the budget agreed by the Trustees. It is the banner headline on our own website which every few minutes to encourage the puddles the net of Value Added Tax (VAT) amounts

34 35 MONEY MATTERS continued... NATUREWATCH but we have to finance the balance and also why we were reclaiming so much money, Although construction and pay the VAT to the supplier and then reclaim requesting copies of the larger invoices and renovation work has continued it from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs what our future returns would look like. across the Roundhouse site (HMRC). I was expecting this, because the previous throughout the spring and In the seven months to the end of July, we March, we had paid them! Thankfully, summer, the wildlife that have processed Project invoices worth now that they have the information and makes its home here seemed over £638,000 before VAT; if all suppliers explanations, they paid our June reclaim unfazed as Phil Hodgkiss’s notes charged VAT on top (not all have to be VAT quickly and without further debate, which is demonstrate. registered) there would be over £127,000 great for our cash flow. VAT on top of this amount. In May, whilst accepting some Class 20s I look forward to seeing you at our onto site, I caught a glimpse what was either The March VAT return was a hefty reclaim unmissable September events. a Stoat or a Weasel near the main line of over £31,000, but HMRC did not pay out Lesser Stag Beetle. until I had replied in detail to a letter they Nigel Atkinson, ACMA, CGMA connection. Photo: Alexa Stott sent me asking numerous questions about Treasurer In June four young Grass Snakes the site, soaring on the thermals, but sadly approximately 9 inches long were spotted they haven’t nested here as they did a very close to the path going up to the Coal couple of years ago. Stage before they disappeared into a crevice MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY’S REPORT in the concrete. A pair of Great Tits made July was ‘Interesting Bug Month’. First up was a Poplar Hawk Moth, found at the The following was a summary therefore new members. their nest in the HNRC compound, raising five young. It is really pleasing to hear that bottom of the HNRC office steps. This of the report given at this year’s No membership rate rise has been proposed beautiful creature has splashes of orange AGM. there have been several sightings of the this year. Little Owl back in the Roundhouse. Early on the inner edges of its wings which have The membership figures, as at 30th June On a personal note may I take this one morning I saw it in the car park. The a span of approximately 60/65mm and 2017: membership is down by 34 from last opportunity to thank the membership for warm weather also brought out the rabbits a body about 30mm in length. The next year’s AGM at 352 members which is made re-electing me as a Trustee. – lots of them were seen at the top of the sighting was of a highly coloured Ruby Tailed up as follows: Martyn Brailsford yard on numerous occasions. Wasp or Cuckoo Wasp, found in the DRS Adult 71 (down 20 on last year’s AGM) container. In August there was another Membership Secretary Buzzards have also been recorded visiting Concession 116 (down 12) moth sighting – this time of a Gold Spot Junior 0 (down 1) Moth. At the very end of August – and possibly disturbed by the ongoing works Family 20 (down 2) in the Water Tower – Alexa rescued a Life 145 (up 1) Lesser Stag Beetle from the ladies toilets During the year we had 13 new members and rehomed it on the Coal Stage, a slightly and therefore lost 47 members. We normally more typical habitat for this smaller cousin have a turnover of members in the range of the Stag Beetle. 20 to 40 members per year, but this year has seen a decline in new membership Editor’s Note: Have you seen any ‘wee beasties’ applications, which I attribute to the fact at the Roundhouse? We’d love to hear about we are not open due to the HLF work – in them – and a photo as well would be even fact there have been only 2 new applications Cuckoo Wasp better. since January. Gold Spot Moth. Poplar Hawk Moth That said, part of the reason for the HLF Photos: Phil Hodgkiss work is to attract new audiences and 36 37 AND FINALLY… “ON THE CUSHIONS” happened to them and dread to think that through the back wall, burying itself in the And David wasn’t the only person they might have been simply burnt when the earthen bank amid the rubble of the shed to get in touch. David Monk-Steel We were delighted to receive old mission was demolished. wall. By sheer luck the cleaner, though badly also wrote to us... this email from David Siddon shaken, was unhurt although I’m sure he was I worked for over 30 years at Chesterfield Referring to the latest Roundhouse after the last Newsletter was mercilessly ribbed for his mistake as well as College and two colleagues were ex-railway Newsletter please find attached a few published, sharing some of his taking a “trip to Derby on the cushions” as men, Joe Allen who’d been a fireman at pictures I took round about 1980 while railway memories… an official reprimand was called. If you look Barrow Hill and Ron Rhodes who’d fired I was covering the Area Operations carefully on photos of Hasland shed the Sat reading my Roundhouse Newsletter at Hasland. I remember an anecdote from Manager’s vacancy at Barrow Hill. If you repaired section of wall is readily apparent. two of the articles have sparked a memory, Hasland shed about an incident with an ex would like to use them please do. If I find namely those on pre-grouping railways and L&NWR Super D 0-8-0. Both Midland men A similar story was told by Joe about any more I will let you have them. the Chesterfield Central signal box name agreed that free steaming and powerful Barrow Hill where a 4F was having its tender board. though the Super D was, it was woefully emptied for inspection. This was done over a Thank you to both Davids for these wonderful memories and My father was a local preacher and pastor designed from the fireman’s point of view. pit with drainage to take the vast volume of for allowing us to share them with of the Ragged School in Chesterfield and as A locker either side which doubled as crew water. However on this occasion it was on a wider audience through this such was well known throughout the area. seating narrowed the footplate. The floor a line without a pit and when the pins were Newsletter. He was a particularly close friend of Mr was formed of wooden pegs hammered knocked out a tsunami of filthy water gushed Harold Watts who performed similar duties into an iron grid that sloped down to the through Les Blackband’s office. Needless to at the old Railwayman’s Mission at Langwith firebox so that, when moving fast, rough say the recipient of this tidal wave was not Junction. When the LD&ECR built the line riding would throw the hapless fireman amused and another trip to Derby on the they instructed every station to contribute at the open firebox. To add to the misery, cushions was in order. a bench for the Enginemen’s chapel. I often the tender brake and scoop handles were went with Dad on his preaching trips and hefty pierced iron wheels as opposed to the remember reading all the names, some on t-bars on Midland locos; these skinned the iron plates, some carved into the backs, of knuckles of many an unlucky shovel wielding Photos: David Monk-Steel all the stations including Chesterfield Market footplate crew. Well was it said of the Super Place. We often had tea with Mr Watts, a D that Wessie men swore by them, Midland real old school gentleman with endless men swore at them!! stories of his time on the railways as shed Anyhow one such loco had found its way to foreman at Langwith. Hasland depot and was standing in the shed Sadly attendance at the mission dwindled doorway awaiting stabling. The shed foreman and with his health failing it eventually asked for it to be moved and with no crew closed but Mr Watts asked Dad if he knew immediately available a cleaner jumped of anyone who would take the benches at the chance to drive it inside. Now on and care for them. But try as he might Midland locomotives you pull the regulator Chesterfield Museum, The National Railway towards you to get it moving but on North Museum and the Great Central Railway Western locos you pushed. After tugging Trust at Loughborough were all completely for a while, in his exertions he accidentally uninterested. Strange as for some of the pushed the regulator full forwards. After a obscure stations they must have been the brief pause the huge locomotive leapt into only surviving artefacts. I often wonder what life charging across the fortuitously empty turntable onto the stabling point and out

38 39 BARROW HILL ROUNDHOUSE AND FINALLY continued... Grand Reopening Gala Starring icons of steam The NRM’s Flying Scotsman

nd and Tornado Friday 22 rd Saturday 23 th & Sunday 24 September 2017 9am - 5pm

A three day celebration to mark the grand reopening of Barrow Hill Roundhouse following the completion of a £1.2 million Heritage Lottery Fund restoration project. Starring two icons of steam – the NRM’s A3 60103 Photos: David Monk-Steel “Flying Scotsman” and A1 60163 “Tornado”. The first visit to the Roundhouse by “Flying Scotsman” since a BR Open Day in 1974 and the first opportunity for many to get up close to the locomotive alongside her sister East Coast racehorse, the 100mph “Tornado” against the unique and authentic backdrop of the Roundhouse. Entry includes one train ride behind these locos. TICKETS Why not make your visit to this ON SALE NOW GALA PLAY celebration a real day out and book Fri/Sat/Sun Thur/Fri/Sat your tickets for “Down the Line”... ADULTS £22.00 £13.20 A professionally produced play CHILDREN £11.00 £6.60 Thursday 21 (16 and under) commissioned as part of the st FAMILIES £53.00 - Friday 22 (2 adults & 2 children) celebratory events to mark & Saturday 23nd the reopening of Barrow Hill Book your tickets online September 2017rd via the Barrow Hill website Roundhouse. Doors & bar open at 6.30pm, performances www.barrowhill.org or www.seetickets.com commence at Tel: 0871 230 5538 7.30pm

(Calls cost 13p per minute plus network extras) Deadline for tickets sent by post is 16th September; print at home tickets available until 20th September. www.barrowhill.org Ticket prices include a booking fee. All children must be accompanied by an adult. 40 CAMPBELL DRIVE, BARROW HILL, CHESTERFIELD, DERBYSHIRE S43 2PR The light coming through the new glass roof of the cafe extension means that the beautiful Roundhouse windows can be seen in all their glory. Photo: Alexa Stott