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Blue Calderdale Winter Sky & Trees Reflected In Canal. Canal scene between Mytholmroyd and Sowerby Bridge.
12:00 Manchester Victoria - Leeds via the Calder Valley, Brighouse and Dewsbury calls at Mytholmroyd.
At Mytholmroyd in the Calder Valley with Drax empties and accelerating away from a signal check. It made a really nice noise.
Waiting at Mytholmroyd in the Calder Valley with a Selby train is Sprinter No. 150112 on 17 December 2018.
Calder Valley dedicated Class 158 No. 158756 gets away from Mytholmroyd towards Preston today in pleasant sunshine.
47331 passes Mytholmroyd with 6M62 11:08 Wakefield Cobra to Northenden empty Binliner. 6/4/88. These trains only ran for about six months. Perhaps the landfill site at Normanton was full or Manchester made alternative arrangements for disposal of their waste.
Often said wrong!
Remember
My (like the word)
th (as in the starting of 'the')
om (the L is silent)
royd (I think that's simple enough).
The above is only approximate! :-)
An old Goods Dock platform still exists at Mytholmroyd - not used as long as I can remember (since the 1980's). A cold store used to exist at this site for local farmers to store ther milk. The Goods Dock won't last for ever. This site will probably be turned into a car park for the station at some point, especially if the line is electrified and the service at Mytholmroyd improved to make it more viable compared to Hebden Bridge which has more trains but is also difficult to park at. 144010 passes on the 12:00 Manchester Victoria - Leeds via Brighouse and Dewsbury.
Racing through Mytholmroyd on 16 December 2016 is newly-repainted Class 158752 showing the new white livery which will be applied to Northern units.
Best viewed Original size.
A class 47 Co-Co diesel heads an eastbound train of 4-wheel tanks a little to the east of Mytholmroyd - c.1984.
© 2016 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm monochrome negative; photographed by Richard Czyzewski.
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Well after about a half-a-mile walk along the Rochdale canal from Mytholmroyd towards Hebden Bridge (the canal is over the wall behind the statue), I have come to "the hawk" a memorial to Ted Hughes. Although there is nothing on the statue to tell the passer-by what its all about, there is an information board on the canal side which tells me that the statue is by Kenny Hunter. The sculpture is in part inspired by Ted Hughes magnificent poem: Hawk Roosting. A work which came from a childhood observation in nearby Redacre woods where Ted with his neighbour and childhood pal Donald Crossley spent much of his free time.
Sadly, I don't think much of this tribute - the tree stump is disproportionately large and there is an unfortunate disconnect between the pigeon-life pacifity of this bird and the charnel-house determination of Ted's raptor. An opportunity missed perhaps.
HAWK ROOSTING
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The convenience of the high trees!
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads -
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:
The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this
Ted Hughes 1930-1998.