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'Doncaster Works Open day 2003'
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Doncaster Works Open Day in 2003
These diesels locomotives on this page were at large open day that was held on the 26 and 27th of June 2003 at the Doncaster Plant to mark the 150th anniversary of these works.
Class 47635 at the Doncaster Works Open day 2003
This class 47 was renamed over this weekend from Jimmy Milne to The Lass O Ballochmye. It has now been re named back to Jimmy Milne.
This locomotive is now at the The Epping and Ongar Railway.
Class 58001 at the Open day at Doncaster.
The class 58s were built at Doncaster, with this one being delivered to BR in 1982. Class 58050 having the unenviable distinction of being the last diesel locomotive built at the Doncaster Plant. EWS withdrew the class 58s in 2002. About 30 class 58s have gone overseas. This 58 number 58001 has been based at Barrow Hill for the last few years.
Class 59001 Yeoman Endeavour at the Doncaster works open day in 2003
&This locomotive Yeoman Endeavour was built for Foster Yeoman for its stone trains by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors and was one of four. The class 66 which is the UKs most comon freight locomotive is based on these locomotives. Note the bell and twin headlights.
Class 50035 at the Doncaster works open day in 2003
GBRf Class 66715 at the Doncaster works open day in 2003
This class 03 0-6-0 Diesel shunter D.2069 was at the Doncaster works open day in 2003.
The Plant
Doncaster's Great Northern Railway railway works was called The Plant. It was established by the Great Northern Railway in 1853. This railway works is (or what is left of it now ) next to the station on the west or down side of the station. LNER A3s and A4s were just two of the many classes of steam engines that came out of these works.
Doncaster Railway station
Doncaster railway station is in South Yorkshire and it is 156 miles from London Kings Cross. Doncaster station is now (2019) managed by LNER. Doncaster station is on of the East Coast Main Line (ECML). Doncaster is one of the main railway stations on the ECML.
Doncaster station has eight platforms on two islands platforms. Platforms one three and four and eight are through platforms. Platforms six and seven are bays at the north of the station on the down side. Platform two and five are south-facing bays on the up side. It now has another (new) platform with the number 0 on the up side at the norther end.
There is a good mixture of train operators who now run thier services to from and though Doncaster station. LNER now( 2019) runs the main ECML trains replacing Virgin East Coast East Coast and NXEC and GNER be for them . First Hull Trains also run there trains though Hull to London. Cross Country and Northern Rail trains together with First TransPennine Express and East Midlands Trains also use this station
