Calder & Hebble Navigation
Hargreaves barge No61 heads back to the NCB British Oak Colliery Staithe, near to Calder Grove. after taking coal to Thornhill Power station at nearby Ravensthorpe.
This view of the Calder and Hebble Navigation with the MGR wagons stabled in the west side of Healey Mills yard is taken from an old railway bridge that linked Thornhill Midland Jnc and Middlestown Jnc which closed in 1968, looking at Google maps this bridge is still in place (2017).
18th July 1973
Calder & Hebble Navigation
Hargreaves barge No61 heads back to the NCB British Oak Colliery Staithe, near to Calder Grove. after taking coal to Thornhill Power station at nearby Ravensthorpe.
This view of the Calder and Hebble Navigation with the MGR wagons stabled in the west side of Healey Mills yard is taken from an old railway bridge that linked Thornhill Midland Jnc and Middlestown Jnc which closed in 1968, looking at Google maps this bridge is still in place (2017).
18th July 1973