This scene was captured in 1951 before the electric catenary was erected and long before Sheffield Victoria Station succumbed to short-sighted eradication along with the Sheffield to Manchester electrified route via Woodhead tunnel. Here we see an elderly ex-Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Thomas Parker N4 '9A' (LNER 'N4') 0-6-2 Tank No. 69227 on station pilot duties at the eastern end of Sheffield Victoria Station. A pilotman is 'copping a ride' on 69227 built by Neilson Reid & Co. in July 1890 as MS&LR No. 605. She was withdrawn in Nov. 1953.

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