Can anyone remember kettle bridge??

[crumpster]

My name is Mark Crump and I lived on Broad Oaks I played on the Kettle bridge all the time it was great

[slotter47]

Worked at Record Ridgway,used it as a route home to avoid Parkway at rush hour.

[martin441]

I used to go train spotting there when I was a lad. Also I used to deliver milk for the express dairy around that area  and travelled over the bridge every morning.

[actionman]

I played on  kettlebridge in the mid 1970s  as a youngster.

Also used to sit on the bridge on the corner of ribston rd and watch the trains go by.

In them days you could walk over the bridge from darnall and halfway along  turn left and go down a ramp towards the train sheds if k remember correctly??

Spent many an hr down there under the bridge playing

[Enfield]

Remember it well, my Dad worked at Darnall Sheds.

[geotom]

Was that when it was a steam loco' shed or when it was a wagon shop?

[terminator]

Cant forget it used to work on Ribston Rd. Must have come over there easy six times a day. Gaffer had yard in late 70s just off Bridge top of Ribston. Infact garrage is still there at bottom of Ribston. Tyre place now though. 

 

Edited February 23, 2022 by terminator

[Enfield]

On 21/02/2022 at 12:17, geotom said:

Was that when it was a steam loco' shed or when it was a wagon shop?

I believe my Dad worked at Neepsend first then he went to Darnall, he was a Loco fitter then when they brought Diesel Trains in he re trained to be a Diesel Fitter, then when they closed Darnall he went to Tinsley Marshalling Yards where he worked till his retirement in 1978. We lived not far from Darnall Sheds and I vaguely remember during school holidays going in to the diesel shed when my Dad was working ,I would be about 8 or 9 and one time he was working on a Shunter and he let me get in the cab with him and drive it in the yard.

[Robbiet]

Remember train spotting in the 1950s in the school dinner hour on the bridge