A Class 20 passing through a long-closed and forlorn looking Sheffield Victoria station - 1500v DC catenary still up
Having completely missed out on haulage over the Woodhead line, I decided to make a very belated visit to the old Sheffield terminus of the line. My older brother had some photos from around 1969 taken at Sheffield Victoria, including the original 26000 'Tommy', and I wanted to soak up the atmosphere of this historic location before it was bulldozed to oblivion.

This was the view from the old Platform 3 looking east. A Class 20 on a local freight is using the single track goods avoiding line, which still exists to serve the steelworks at Stocksbridge. All the track through the station was lifted in the mid-1980s however, and the station buildings were demolished in 1989 to make way for an extension to the adjacent Victoria Hotel complex.

More on the history of Sheffield Victoria station here: <a href="http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/sheffield_victoria/index.shtml" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/sheffield_victoria/index.shtml</a>

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera.

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