Did Anyone Travel From Sheffield Victoria Station ?

[kidneystone]

Here is an article and pictures of Sheffield Victoria Station.

[MARGY54]

my dad george williams was a passenger guard there before having to work at midland station . i can remember as a little girl going with him to get his wages .my uncle was a porter there. sometimes we would use the steps from the wicker but usually we would walk up to the main entrance past the victoria hotel. i can remember the steam trains and to this day love the smell of them .

[darylslinn]

Passengers weren't stopping at Victoria during this time but they were still passing through on the Sheffield to Huddersfield via Penistone services which reversed at Nunnery sidings and took the lines through Victoria.

Edited October 23, 2014 by darylslinn

[johnme]

i used to work in the signal box at woodburn junction in the 60s, always wondered why it was called WOODBURN JUNCTION when it was just off WOODBOURN RD

[crookes]

School holidays often saw me off on the train to my Gran and Grandfathers, at Linby near Hucknall. Sometimes I got left there to stay for a week or more. It once took hours to get there because of engineering work.

 

I took my first ever photograph on Victoria Station in 1954 -

Edited November 14, 2014 by crookes

[hillsbro]

Hi crookes - an interesting photo! The ex-Great Central J11 looks like 64422 from Retford (36E) shed. The single headlamp indicates a slow/branch passenger service; it may have arrived with a such a train from that area, perhaps returning with the 3.42 pm "all stations to Retford" that is shown in the 1954 timetable.

[crookes]

Hi hillsbro - It was Annesley based 64431, withdrawn two years later. Fitting that it was from Annesley as my grandfather was a signalman there, among other locations.

[hillsbro]

...It was Annesley based 64431...

Then maybe it took the 4.08 pm "all stations to Nottingham Victoria"..

[Korky Kat]

My late Father and his family lived on Parkwood Springs where many railway families lived.

My Grandfather and two of my uncles were drivers. My Paternal Great Grandfather was also an engine driver back in 1878.

My Maternal Grandfather was also a driver who worked out of Darnel Loco sheds until his death around 1950.

We travelled regularly to Penistone from Victoria where my Grandfather and Grandmother had retired to.

[Da link went]

Victoria was an LNER line and the Midland was LMS. The only time I went from Victoria was on the milk run very early in the morning to go fishing in a lake near Worksop,I think it was called Langdale or similar.

 

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On a slightly different tack. When I was stationed at Catterick Camp in 1947/8 time I would travel by train from Sheffield Midland to Darlington and then catch the Flyer into camp centre. On Darligton station was one of the first engines ever built, in my ignorance I thought it was the Rocket but somebody said no it was a slightly later model. I often sat on the plinth waiting for the Flyer.

 

Does anyone know anything about it.