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Been posting a report a day for over a month to clear the Summer back catalogue but this is the last of them before the daily grind of work kicks in. This is my very local explore. I covered it in April 2013 but this place has only had one or two reports since as it gets overlooked in favour of the big Sheff draw-card sites. The thing that kicked me into action to go and have another look is that the land has no been sold and the new owners given the go-ahead to demo the place and build a care-home complex.
On one level the former engine shed building is impressive. On another level it is trashed and graffed to the max. Access is easy though and the graffiti was quite unique last time I went so it was time to give it another whirl.
There’s a little bit of history about the place. The Millhouses engine shed was built by the Midland Railway in 1901 to serve the Midland Main Line and to stable passenger and mixed-traffic locomotives for use on trains from the nearby Sheffield Midland station. Here's what it looked like in its hey-day:
Millhouses by HughieDW, on Flickr
The shed was built next to the former Millhouses railway station. It had 8 dead end roads and could handle about forty steam locomotives. Initially it was called Ecclesall shed but was renamed Millhouses in 1920. Millhouses bore the shed code 25A, then 19B in 1935 and finally 41C in 1958. In 1959 the shed had an allocation of thirty-three engines, including twelve Jubilee steam engines while 1960 saw the arrival of seven Royal Scots. With the decline of steam-power locomotives it closed in 1962 and was then converted into a warehouse. Before it closed it used to be owned by Jacobs Manufacturing. Its future proposed use can be seen here:
Troutbeck re-development plans
Here’s the pics:
img1955 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1910 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1911 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1912 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1914 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1920 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1915 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1922 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1925 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1930 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1931 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1932 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1933 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1937 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1938 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1939 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1942 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1945 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1947 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1948 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1950 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1952 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img1954 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Thanks for looking!
On one level the former engine shed building is impressive. On another level it is trashed and graffed to the max. Access is easy though and the graffiti was quite unique last time I went so it was time to give it another whirl.
There’s a little bit of history about the place. The Millhouses engine shed was built by the Midland Railway in 1901 to serve the Midland Main Line and to stable passenger and mixed-traffic locomotives for use on trains from the nearby Sheffield Midland station. Here's what it looked like in its hey-day:
Millhouses by HughieDW, on FlickrThe shed was built next to the former Millhouses railway station. It had 8 dead end roads and could handle about forty steam locomotives. Initially it was called Ecclesall shed but was renamed Millhouses in 1920. Millhouses bore the shed code 25A, then 19B in 1935 and finally 41C in 1958. In 1959 the shed had an allocation of thirty-three engines, including twelve Jubilee steam engines while 1960 saw the arrival of seven Royal Scots. With the decline of steam-power locomotives it closed in 1962 and was then converted into a warehouse. Before it closed it used to be owned by Jacobs Manufacturing. Its future proposed use can be seen here:
Troutbeck re-development plans
Here’s the pics:
img1955 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1910 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1911 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1912 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1914 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1920 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1915 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1922 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1925 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1930 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1931 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1932 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1933 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1937 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1938 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1939 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1942 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1945 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1947 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1948 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1950 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1952 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg1954 by HughieDW, on FlickrThanks for looking!
