Tardis not required... Visitors to Barrow Hill Roundhouse in late September were treated to a sight that is unlikely to ever be repeated: a busy LMS depot, filled with a potpourri of Midland Region engines. Soon after the Staveley (near Chesterfield) site closed its doors to the public at 17.00 on September 27, the process of returning the shed to normality began. As the eight visiting locomotives ebbed away over the next few days. Barrow Hill returned to its now customary guise as a depot serving the modern railway industry for the likes of Hitachi, Network Rail and DRS. Although enthusiast events will never compete with the lifeblood generated by its contemporary status, its site manager Mervyn Allcock was determined to take a big financial risk to ensure that the roundhouse could throw a major steam party to mark 50 years since the traction was totally ousted by diesels.
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