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Contributors: Stephen Stott / Paul Holroyd / Alan S Bagot / Patrick Blow / Dave Walbank / Paul Holroyd / Patrick Martin / Chris Armour
Andrew Stopford / Gareth Beaumont / Gary Jones / Graeme Bickerdike / Michael Kaye / Ralph Rawlinson

Manchester Victoria Station

L&Y Map (16-02-08) : Lost Railways
Went to have a butchers at Man Vic, 20 years since my last visit, some changes, at least the tasty L&Y map is still here.

Manchester Victoria station facing west (1980 & 2008) : Lost Railways
Before & after, same spot 20 odd years apart. Preferred the old station I think.

Illinois Photo's © Gareth Beaumont

Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois, June 2006.
8500 series Gas Turbine No18
179 ft long, 10,000 HP, 380 tons,
General Electric (Co-Co+Co-Co) Union Pacific.

DD 40 Centennial Double Diesel (Do-Do)
98 ft long, 8,000 HP, 244 tons, No, 6930, General Electric, Union Pacific.
Ex southern Pacific Rotary snow plough.

Chicago Burlington & Quincy (Zephyr)
No,9911A E5 (Co-Co)

Pennsylvania Photo's © Gareth Beaumont
Steamtown, Scranton, Pennsylvania, June 2006.

Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" ALCO Class 4884-1 No 4012.
Weight :-    772,000 lbs (engine)
                  1,198 000 lbs (engine & tender)
                                                        535 tons

Union Pacific No 4012.

Canadian National 4-6-4 T No 47

Rahway Valley Railroad No 15 2-8-0

Tadcaster

Tadcaster viaduct facing north (24-02-08) : Lost Railways
In 1846 trains between York & Leeds traveled via Methley. The York & North Midland Railway planned a more direct link.
The route was to be in 3 sections. First a new line would link Copmanthorpe to Tadcaster. The existing Church Fenton line
would be used between Tadcaster & Sutton. Finally a new line would be built between Sutton & Cross Gates.

Tadcaster viaduct facing east (24-02-08) : Lost Railways
Work started on the project & by 1848 this tasty eleven arch viaduct had been built across the river Wharfe.
Financial difficulties forced the company to abandon the project shortly after & work never resumed.
Later on, in 1863, a less ambitious link was made between Church Fenton & Micklefield.

Tadcaster viaduct facing west (24-02-08) : Lost Railways
That's my dad blowing his nose.

Yorkshire Engine Company Limited
Shunting loco's advertisment
From the 1952 edition of the British Engineers Association, classified handbook of members & their manufacturers.
Them were the days.

Halifax
Halifax Station (16-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
Shot of Halifax Station & disused platforms.

Halifax facing north (c1980s) © David Hey Reproduction prohibited
Facing Beacon Hill tunnel. The lines to north Bridge terminated heading out to the left. see Queensbury Halifax

Shay Syke goods (16-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
Built on the south side of Halifax station on the L&Y Sowerby Bridge, Halifax & Bradford line.

Shay Syke goods (16-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
The old Shay Syke goods/parcels station which looks like its about to fall down or be pushed!

Bradley curve
LNWR boundary marker (17-09-06) : Andrew Stopford
LNWR boundary marker on the A62 at Colne Bridge.
Underneath this spot the Bradley Curve crosses the A62 in a short tunnel.

Milner Royd Junction (23-04-85) : Michael Kaye
We are approaching Milner Royd Junction on the 'Up line' from Halifax,
the lines coming in from the left are from Elland & Greetland, 23rd April 1985.

Yeadon Branch (15-07-06) : Gary Jones See Railway Ramblers gazetteer Leeds : GNR Yeadon branch
Bridge remains over Henshaw Lane Yeadon, at the entrance to Yeadon station, the white building is the Station pub. This branch line between Guiseley & Yeadon opened 26th Feb 1894.
The line was only ever used for goods traffic & was closed in 1964.

Marsden, Huddersfield Photo's ©Patrick Blow
Marsden station facing west (04-03-06)
A special trip organised to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the opening of the Leeds Liverpool line.
A double header jobbie consisting - in front, Black five No 45407 class 5 MT.
Built in1934 for the L.M.S, weighing in at 72 tons.

Marsden station facing east (04-03-06)
Behind, a 1953 class 4 MT No 76079, weighing in at 69 tons, nice.

Staincliffe & Batley Carr
Station (02-07-06) : Andrew Stopford
Station Buildings at Staincliffe & Batley Carr on the LNWR Dewsbury to Batley section of line.

Keighley

Keighley Station (n.d) : Dave Walbank
Keighley station yard

Keighley sheds (n.d) : Dave Walbank
Keighley shed as it was starting to be demolished.

Keighley sheds (1952) : Dave Walbank
I've found the picture of keighley sheds taken in 1952

Ilkley to Skipton
Lob Ghyll viaduct (27-04-07) : David Taylor

The Midland opened the Leeds & Bradford Extension Railway from Shipley to Skipton in 1847, and on from Skipton to Colne in 1848, and their line from Apperley Bridge to Ilkley opened in 1865. However Ilkley and Skipton were not connected by rail until 1888 by a reluctant MR. The line between Ilkley and Embsay Junction was closed in 1965 and in Ilkley a large girder bridge over Brook Street together with a 25 arch masonry viaduct over the town centre were demolished as was another over Addingham. Between Ilkley and the far side of Addingham virtually no evidence of the line remains but a 5 stone arch viaduct over Lob Ghyll (OK a hundred yards into North Yorkshire but definitely West Riding) near Bolton Bridge has survived although obscured by trees. .

The ‘Yorkshire Dales Railway’, operated by the MR, opened between Embsay Junction and Grassington in 1902 and remains open from Embsay Junction to Swinden Quarry near Linton for mineral traffic as does the line from Embsay Jnct to Skipton.

The line between Embsay Junction and Bolton Abbey has been re-opened by the ‘Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway’ and they have run one or two trains to Swinden works. For more on the line and its few remaining relics see

http://www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk/addilk.html

Skipton

Class 144 DMU (October 94) : Paul Holroyd website - http://www.ingrowrailwaycentre.co.uk
Alexander Class 144 DMU in Regional Railways livery at Skipton, October 1994

Class 144 DMU (October 94) : Paul Holroyd
Alexander Class 144 DMU at Skipton, October 1994. Note the maginifcently restored platform canopies.

Class 144 DMU (October 94) : Paul Holroyd
Alexander Class 144 DMU at Skipton, October 1994. View taken looking south towards Cononley.

Skipton station (October 94) : Paul Holroyd
Platform 4 of Skipton station, looking north. October 1994.

Skipton station (October 94) : Paul Holroyd
View taken from the top of the subway on platforms 3 and 4 at Skipton, showing the immaculately restored platform canopy.
Note the signalbox

Howden
Howden Signal box (08-04-07)
Situated next to Howden station on Station road level crossing.
Driven past loads of times, the building is becoming more derelict each time I see it.

Howden Signal box (08-04-07)

Lockwood

Lockwood station subway (07-04-07)
The disused subway leading to the disused platform, see next photo.

Lockwood station platform (07-04-07)
The disused platform, originally for trains to Penistone.

L & Y boundary stone (07-04-07)
Found by accident close to the station at the top of Burbeary road.

Claythorpe Photo's ©Patrick Blow

Claythorpe Aby station (10-07-02)
Aby station was closed to passengers on September 11th, 1961.
Served the nearby Claythorpe water mill (next photo)

Claythorpe water mill (10-07-02) http://www.claythorpewatermill.co.uk/
Near Aby, Alford, Lincolnshire. The watermill at Claythorpe, built during the 1700s, was recorded in the Doomsday Book. During the 1800s the original water wheel was destroyed and replaced with a turbine, a modern piece of technology in that era.

Algakirk station (c1985) Information : Chris Armour

Algakirk station on the former line from Boston to Spalding.
I'm not sure when the line closed, but virtually the whole of the trackbed is now under the A16.
The station building is by a roundabout where the A16 crosses the A17.
In January 2006, the building was being restored, probably to become an expensive house.

Isle of Man 2005
Photo Patrick Martin
Nothing much to do with this site, just a nice bit of engineering we thought.

Thetford

1 (21-07 -04)
Found this disused station near to where I was working.
Got myself one of those throw away cameras & took a few snaps.
The building to the right hand side looks like a parcels office.

2 (21-07 -04)
Platforms are missing but the rest of it looks in good nick.
Someone told me the pebbles set within the brickwork came from the seaside.

3 (21-07 -04)
View inside that open window.

4 (21-07 -04)
Disused sidings behind the station, originally used for tankers.

Little Weighton (Hull & Barnsley)
Little Weighton cutting : Graeme Bickerdike website - http://www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/
This 1-mile, 83-foot deep cutting at Little Weighton on the old Hull & Barnsley
is being filled with 500,000 cubic metres of household waste.

Silkstone

Silkstone No.1 tunnel (04-02-07) : Graeme Bickerdike
An Interior shot of Silkstone No.1 tunnel, between Penistone and Barnsley. The sharp winter sunshine was pouring into it, lighting up the stonework and revealing some wonderful colours. And we normally think of tunnels being black! The shadows on the floor are created by substantial, permanent bars welded across the portal. Although it’s only 289 yards long, the eastern end has been infilled, hence the distant gloom.

Bromyard - Leominster (01-05-06) : Ralph Rawlinson Website - www.Railway Ramblers.org

These next six shots cover a one mile section west of Fencote station.
Primroses at missing bridge (01-05-06) : Ralph Rawlinson
GR586589

Fencote north hidden semaphore (01-05-06) : Ralph Rawlinson

Leaving Fencote (01-05-06) : Ralph Rawlinson
GR597594

Absent bridge (01-05-06) : Ralph Rawlinson
GR596593

Trackbed - west (01-05-06) : Ralph Rawlinson
GR588591

Trackbed - west (01-05-06) : Ralph Rawlinson
GR587591

Doncaster 1960

Doncaster 1960 Paper negatives : Steven Stott
Had these old paper negatives handed to me by Stephen Stott ages ago. They've been on the site for a while.
I've re-scanned them to try & improve the images a bit, see below. It's also been pointed out I had them in reverse last time.

Doncaster 1960 1 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 2 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 3 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 4 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 5 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 6 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 7 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 8 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 9 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 10 : Steven Stott

Doncaster 1960 11 : Steven Stott

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