Steam locomotive in snow, approaching the northern entrance to Bradway Tunnel.
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Ref No:u08204
Title:Steam locomotive in snow, approaching the northern entrance to Bradway Tunnel.
Location:Sheffield
Date Period:1940-1959
Photographer:F H Brindley, Sheffield News Pictures
Copyright::F H Brindley, Sheffield News Pictures
Notes:

Reminiscence from John Thickitt:

He remembered a driver commenting to him at Midland Station in the mid-1960s that you fry in summer and freeze in winter! , this being a remark about conditions on the footplate of steam locomotives.

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