Woodhead #3
Part three of a special feature – this time its both the EM1s (Class 76) and the EM2s (Class 77.) The former was one that hauled a special railtour which I travelled on through the Woodhead tunnel in the seventies. The EM2s were express locomotives but made redundant far earlier…
Woodhead #2
Part two of a special feature on the Woodhead line. Here we see the electrified 1500v dc line in its heyday, after its closure in 1984 and during demolition of the route. The closure and demolition was controversial at the time – and still is today – because the Woodhead…
Woodhead Tunnel
A tribute to the closed railway tunnel and also its famous EM2 locomotives. The tunnel was the UK’s longest landward example built in the 20th Century. Two major collapses caused huge delays in construction. Total cost was £4.3 million. It opened over a year late in 1954 as part of…