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©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.1km<br/>The remains of last night's bonfire still smoulder in the centre, but the council obviously think that this is mainly dog-walking territory.
©Christine Johnstone
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©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.3km<br/>Completed and unfinished houses on Fenton Road.
©Martin Speck
Dist:0.4km<br/>This road is called Fenton Fields
©Christine Johnstone
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©Paul Eggleston
Dist:0.6km<br/>En route to Meadowhall.
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.6km<br/>A pair of non-boilered class 31s numbers 31271 31240 depart Rotherham with the summer Saturdays only 09.10 Paignton - Newcastle train on 11/8/84. Both these loco's were vacuum braked only (vo) at the time. The S O Blackpool - Sheffield (on this day) was worked by 37246 a no-heat Tinsley machine.
©Paul Bridge
Dist:0.7km<br/>This is the frontage of the (closed) Midland Railway station. Rail travellers now use Rotherham Central Station.
©Dave Bevis
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©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.8km<br/>The former Rotherham Masborough Station. The photograph was taken on the last day of operation. Units 53012/54003/53646 & 53601
©Dave Hitchborne
Dist:0.8km<br/>View northward, towards Leeds, York etc.; ex-Midland main trunk line, London - Leicester/Nottingham and Bristol - Birmingham - Derby - Sheffield - Leeds/York - Carlisle. The train is the Up 'Waverley', 10.15 Edinburgh via Carlisle - London St Pancras, with Stanier Class 5 No. 44871 piloting BR/Sulzer Type 4 1-Co-Co-1 2,500hp Diesel No. 157 (later Class 46 No. 46.020). The Diesel may have been 'unwell', as those early series locomotives often were. No. 44871 survived until 1967 and is preserved on the East Lancashire Railway.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.8km<br/>On Station Road, opposite Masbrough Station.
©Dave Bevis
Dist:0.8km<br/>Bridleway between Greasbrough and Kimberworth Park, Rotherham. The woodland on the right is open to the public through the "Rotherham's woodland estate" scheme.
©Dave Dunford
Dist:0.8km<br/>Class 45033 runs light through this now closed station. There were 127 of these locomotives built between 1960 and 1962 by British Railways at their Derby and Crewe Works. These 67ft-11in, 135 ton locomotives ran at speeds of up to 90mph.
©Dave Hitchborne

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