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Racing through Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire is a fast train for Leeds comprising Sprinter No. 150277.
Class 37 37134 passes Mytholmroyd with a Summer dated Blackpool North-Sheffield on 28th June 1975. These trains were unusual in being booked for class 37 haulage and were routed via the Copy Pit route. Photo: Ivan Stewart Collection.
Running in to Mytholmroyd past one of the new signals that have just been switched on during the Great North Rail project over the weekend are the Lindsey empties headed by Colas Class 70 No. 70802.
"A good fire" a spectator observed as this former clog factory burned. It was under threat of demolition with a planning application in to demolish and replace with 11 houses. Sited on the river Calder it is / was both a substantial and dramatic building. A great loss to the industrial heritage of the north. See pictures here before the fire www.flickr.com/photos/46833951@N04/30873837657/in/datepos...
British Railways Type 4 1Co-Co1 class 45/1 diesel-electric locomotive number 45117 of Toton Traction Maintenance Depot passes through Mytholmroyd railway station on the Down Main line with the diverted 14:49 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle (1E27). Sunday 7th October 1984
Mytholmroyd Station was located by the Up Main line at the Yorkshire end of Mytholmroyd railway station, and was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 64 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame that opened in 1904 replacing an 1875-built signal box. The signal box was renamed Mytholmroyd West in 1919 after an additional signal box opened named Mytholmroyd East 829 yards away. The signal box closed on 12th May 1985 along with Sowerby Bridge West signal box when the absolute block section was extended to between Milner Royd Junction and Hebden Bridge signal boxes although rising traffic levels in the 2000s necessitated the commissioning of intermediate block signals. The signal box remained in situ for a while but by mid-September 1987 the lever frame had been removed and the signal box was being demolished
45407 races through Mytholmroyd with the "York Yuletide Express" - 1Z31 09:50 Liverpool Lime Street to York. 14/12/2008. An impressive display of exhaust, given it was travelling downhill.
Waaay retro. In the window of Dougie Mansfield's bike cum shoe shop, Mytholmroyd, January 2013. Think I may have owned the junior version some time in the late 1970s.
I remember the inauguration of the daily Copy Pit services....operated by LM Region Class 104 DMU's complete with droplight window bars and waistband white stripe. Pictures anyone?
Lit entirely by light polution from the street lights along the valley reflecting back off the clouds.
Heading towards Mytholmroyd over frosty ballast is No. 158907. The area on the left was once a very busy freight yard, with shunting going on most of the day (and night). Now it looks bleak, and is used by Siemens for storing equipment to carry out signalling upgrades on the Calder Valley line.
Donald Crossley sits on the wall at the entrance to Redacre Wood above Mytholmroyd. Today Donald is leading a walk for the annual Elmet Trust Ted Hughes festival in Mytholmroyd where the poet was born in 1930. Ted Hughes was passionate about wildlife from his earliest days of exploring these woods leading up to the moorland heights of the Calder Valley. Ted came here in the company of his elder brother (and instructor), Gerald, ten years his senior. Gerald Hughes is now 92 years of age and has lived in Australia since 1948. His book "Ted And I" has just been published by The Robson Press and provides an authentic tellling of his relationship with his wee brother Ted, the little boy, who played "red indians" in these woods where he kept a hidden tom-tom drum, who saw everything, and remembered and wrote it down, and became a Poet Laureate.
Donald Crossley lived at 9 Aspinall Road, Mytholmroyd. For the first eight years of his life, Ted Hughes lived in the house he was born in, No 1 Aspinall Road, Donald and Ted grew-up together and remained friends till the very end of Ted's life, listening to Donald you know that he loved him too.
In his book TED AND I, Gerald Hughes writes that just before they set off on their first camping trip:
"I remember Ted's pals came round before we departed - his two inseparable friends Derek Robertshaw and Brian Seymour, and young Donald Crossley - all full of advice for Ted. We packed and were on our way by early afternoon".
I fist met Winston in 2013 when he joined a group of poets/walkers on part of the Simon Armitage Stanza Stones route walked as part of a traveling workshop of poetry readings along its 48 miles of moorland hiking. Winston lives on a canal boat at Hebden Bridge and is well established as "the local poet" .He appears regularly as both compere and performer at events across the country including hosting his own night 'The Spoken Word Shindig' in Hebden . Today he is running a creative writing workshops as part of the Ted Hughes Festival where he taught me all I know about Pareidolla (you'll have to look it up for yourself)! Here we are enjoying a lunch-time beer in a Mytholmroyd hostelry - but Winston's range runs wide and deep:
FRESH MILK
She tries to bottle-up
her gold-top future.
Dreams of leaving
a trail of milk to work
and lying along
the car park lines
on clear evenings.
The clatter of trains
smoothing her mind's
journey home.
Winston Plowes.
A two-car Class 110 passes a lone semaphore signal post on the approach to Mytholmroyd station while working 2M06 13:40 Leeds to Manchester Victoria. 17/11/85. The semaphore was taken down a couple of years later and if you stood at this spot today, you'd be surrounded by a forest and wouldn't be able to see anything - not even the line, probably.