Unidentified Peak at Dore & Totley

An un-identified BR/Sulzer Type 4 takes the Chinley line with an unknown working, possibly a Sheffield - Manchester local. Although a little grimy the Peak is as delivered from the Workshops, and without any yellow panels on the nose, the picture is probably from 1961/62.

For the purists or those with local knowledge this is in fact Yorkshire, Derbyshire is less than a mile to the south of here. The county boundary actually cuts across the railway tracks as they pass through Totley Tunnel on the Chinley route and Bradway Tunnel on the line to Chesterfield. Also behind the photographer was a short tunnel which carried the south side of the triangle, allowing direct running between Chesterfield & Chinley.

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