Millhouses engine shed (sheffield) may 2011

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This was a solo splore and seemed a good place to kill an hour before meeting my mom, I was truely shocked at how buggered this site is.

anyhoo on with some HISTORY :

Millhouses engine shed was an engine shed in Millhouses, Sheffield. It was built by the Midland Railway in 1901 as Ecclesall engine shed, to serve the Midland Main Line. It was used mainly to stable passenger and mixed-traffic locomotives for use on trains from the nearby Sheffield Midland station. The shed was built next to Millhouses railway station; it had 8 dead end roads, and could handle about forty steam locomotives. Ecclesall shed was renamed Millhouses in 1920. Millhouses bore the shed code 25A, then 19B in 1935 and finally 41C in 1958. During LMS ownership the shed was home mostly to 4-4-0 engines until the arrival of Jubilee steam engines in 1937. In 1959 the shed had an allocation of thirty-three engines, including twelve Jubilee steam engines. 1960 saw the arrival of seven Royal Scots.

Millhouses shed closed on 1 January 1962, the shed's remaining engines were transferred to Canklow, Barrow Hill Engine Shed and Staveley Great Central.

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the rest of my shots can be found HERE (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_ink/sets/72157626624032792/)

thanks for looking

[Nicola]

Cracking shots! Love the graffiti shots! :thumb

[robenkov15]

that place is well and truely buggered! going by the graffiti and the burnt matress, im guessing its close to a rough area?

nice shots :thumb

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hahahaha its sheffield rob its all rough troloololl

[andym]

Wow that's wrecked. Would have loved to see it when it was working, stuffed full of steam engines:)

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hell yeah me too but can only find scetchy pics and limited info andy

[BA]

Nice graffiti shots :)

[Only2Eyes]

Good work mate, nice way to pass a bit of time.

[AllFallD0wn]

Funnily enough, coming back from Manchester on the train I saw this (I presume it was this..next to a tescos?), and wondered how easy it would be to find it. Looks worth a visit. Nice shots!

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pm'd you dude :) and thankyou for your comment