Image ID: 15142

Train passing closed Checker House station, Ranby, 1959

Blyth Road
Ranby
England

Ivatt Class 4MT 2-6-0 number 43106 at the head of what appears to be a fitted freight train at Checker House. The view is looking east with the signal box and former station visible through the bridge span. The overbridge carries the dual carriageway A1 (Great North Road) over the ex-Great Central Railway line between Sheffield, Worksop and Retford and replaced a level crossing immediately to the east, although the latter appears to have remained in use for purely local purposes for some years afterwards. The station was very much an isolated roadside stopping place, the nearest village being Ranby, some 1.5 miles to the north. Unsurprisingly it closed to passenger traffic as early as 1931. Locomotive number 43106 survived the end of steam on British Railways in 1968 and is the only member of its class to be preserved, its long-term home being on the Severn Valley Railway. A total of 162 of these mixed traffic locomotives were constructed between 1947 and 1952 to the design of H A Ivatt, the London Midland & Scottish Railway's last Chief Mechanical Engineer prior to nationalisation of the railways in 1948.

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