YORKSHIRE

On the 30th July 1967, I travelled down to South Yorkshire and joined a shed tour organised by The Luton Railway Circle. We visited Healey Mills, Normanton, Royston and Wakefield situated deep in the Yorkshire coalfield. In those days the NCB had numerous collieries in the area, therefore coal was a staple commodity for shipment by rail, and the sheds we visited survived solely for this traffic. We start at Wakefield MPD, which, prior to closure in 1967, was one of the last sheds with an allocation of steam on the North Eastern Region.

Wakefield 56A

 

 

Royston 55D

 

 

Normanton 55E 

 

Holbeck 55A

(Above-Below) Holbeck 29th May 1967. While driving through Leeds one day I just happened to pass Holbeck shed, so I took a couple of photos over the wall. General view of shed yard with some Sulzer Type 4s (Class 45) and a BR/Drewery 204hp shunter in view. Typical of the scruffy state of BR's stock during the final years of steam, BR Standard Class 7MT No 70046 (minus its Anzac nameplates) heads into the shed yard for the coaling stage. Class 9F 2-10-0 No 92082 coupled to 70046 backs into the yard to get coaled.

York 50A 

The York photos were taken on a very dark and misty winters day with a poor camera and slow colour slide film.  What you see is a bonus from about 30 unusable photos.

 

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