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61935 crossing Hessle Road.

by Colombo 6 months ago in group Railways
Last updated 5 months ago.

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The selection of cars waiting at the gates looks as interesting as the engine. Taken from the Hull & Barnsley, during the construction of Hessle Road flyover. I did have a photographic permit to be there.

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  1. BobM Submitted 6 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Hi Colombo thanks for the entry, some of your photos are really turning the years back for me. This post 61935 at Hessle rd crossing is one in particular.Can you tell me what year it was.

  2. Colombo Submitted 6 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I do not have the exact date, for once. But it is probably in the first 3 months of 1962. The overhead line was closed to traffic in March 1962.

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    Colombo Submitted 6 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    BobMIf you liked the last one of Hessle Road, you might like this one.

  4. BobM Submitted 6 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    These are really great pics Colombo have you thought of contacting Mr Flashback at HDM for use in his column. I am sure a great many of our age group would enjoy seeing these images again. In this picture taken from the Hull and Barnsley bridge the first building on the left is The Railway Institute(were I had my first pint), followed by The Locomotive Hotel and down on the right St Mary’s and St Peter’s church. Did you ever notice that the two streets on either side of the level crossing, Trinidad and Institute had their backways fronting onto the street and their fronts facing the lines, reminiscent of the pit cottages in the north east.

  5. BobM Submitted 6 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Forgot to mention I was 20yrs old in62 and joined the Merchant navy for 4yrs so cant remember the flyover being built.

  6. Colombo Submitted 6 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    BobM. Some of these pictures have been in Flashback. I’m rescanning my negatives with my new scanner. I have just got access to some glass plate negatives, taken in the 1930’s. Strangely, when I enquired of Epson if they did a scanner that would handle this size, they told me that they did, but did not recommend it for glass negatives. I do not know of any negatives this size that are not glass, so I wondered what the point was of offering it.

  7. topcat Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    BobM,Have read your comments on The Railway Institute "Dairycoates Club" I worked in the Hessle Road Box can you recall a block of shops before Hawthorne Avenue. In the 50’s I remember an old lady every night come out of one of the houses with an enamel jug, go into the club for draught beer to consume at home. Most of the people who lived in those houses were platelayers (Track Maintainence Staff)and we would have to call them out during the night for snow or fog duties.

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    topcat Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    OPENING the gates HESSLE ROAD SIGNAL BOX 1956. SIGNALMAN and SIGNAL LAD, what great titles they gave us in those days, today it would be Traffic Controller and Trainee Controller. We did cause a few delays to traffic and recieve many a gesture from motorist’s.

  9. topcat Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Interio of Hessle Road Signal Box. Wooden Floor Scrubbed at least once a week. Handles to signal/points levers burnished twice a week along with all the brass instruments. Windows washed weekly inside and out (lousey on a sunny day)Coal buckets filled daily to keep two fires burning, all done by the signal lad who had his other duties to do also had to learn all the rules,regulations etc so he could then go on to be a Signalman.We worked three shifts 6-2 2-10 10-6.No signal lad cover on a sunday so the lad who returned on a mon @ 6 had to start to clean up the mess left by the MEN.Just a small insight of life in a signal box

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    topcat Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Forgot to download photo for above

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    Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    topcat: If you worked in Hessle Road, you may have pulled some of these, although I doubt if anything coming down from 5A bridge would have stopped in time if the ones for Haltemprice Yards or Chalk Lane were pulled off.

  12. BobM Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Sorry for late reply TC, regarding a block of shops, if you mean Dairycoates side of hawthorn ave, I can only remember Stephensons bike repair shop between Parish Hall and Miller’s pub

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    Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    topcat. Here’s another one of Hessle Road box. The engine is 61819, coming off Newington Branch with a freight from York. 20th February 1961.

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