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Just a little, but the first for four weeks. I think Crigglestone is in a weather bubble. It rains all around us, but never ON us!
The 3S14 rail head treatment train with 20305 in charge & 20309 on the rear approaching the spot where old Crigglestone West Station once was on a damp rainy mid-day.
Unsure which version of this photo I liked best, I also uploaded the Black & White version also.
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LMS design, but BR built, 0-6-0 Diesel Electric shunter, 12122, in a sorry state with a bit of collision damage. Stored at British Oak disposal point, Crigglestone. 17th September 1985.
Started industrial service at Bowers Row. Then 12/05/74 to Crigglestone onto West Hallam 03/78. Back to Crigglestone 28/01/85 scrapped on site by Wath Skip Hire Ltd 11/86.
At the time the A55 Expressway was in the very early stages of construction preparation and the wooden fencing on the left was in place as the old Colywn Bay Goods Depot siding was in the process of being done away with.
Also note the stock in the long since abandoned Up Slow platform, believed to be 5G22 1427 Llandudno to Oxley CS (thank you Steve Jones) either 47539 or 47434 at the head of this.
The main train however is 1E82 1400 Llandudno to York which incidentally also conveyed a portion for Sheffield (which was detached at Huddersfield) and ran via Healey Mills, Horbury Station Jn, Crigglestone Jn and Barnsley.
Saturday 13th June 1981
Ex-BR shunter, no.12122 has been withdrawn from its industrial life at Pepper's Yard, British Oak, Crigglestone, West Yorkshire on 3rd March 1985. It was scrapped on site some three months later. It is accompanied by 03 037 and 08 016, which are now both preserved.
The loco, 70017, is passing where Horbury Station Jn was, where the line to Crigglestone Jnc went off. Alongside the cement tanks, was the platform of Horbury and Ossett station, closed in 1970. 70017 is working the 09:50 Dewsbury - Earles cement empties. Healey Mills is the forest beyond the second bridge.
From 04/72 to 26/02/89 with NCBOE at Blaenavon, Cwm Bargoed, Crigglestone and finally as above. To C.F. Booth Rotherham luckily sold to Severn Valley Rly 26/03/90 for preservation.
Walking down from the loading hoppers and 03037 and looking towards the loco shed and 08016 at British Oak, Crigglestone. 17th September 1985. In view also are my three travelling companions on the trip, all looking considerably younger. Not surprising considering the photos where taken over 30 years age. How time flies.
Recently I have uploaded a few rugby pictures so was going to change my flickr content. Best laid plans and all that.
This afternoon I went along to watch a local amateur open age game between Crigg All Blacks and Wakefield City. My eighteen year old nephew, Henry is starting to secure a regular place, however as this image shows there is a big difference between a sprightly teenager and someone with a little more maturity and bulk. This chap was surprisingly mobile for someone so big and proved quite a handful.
20302 & 20305 climbing away from Horbury Junction at Crigglestone on 1Z50 Leeds to Bristol Temple Meads "The DRS Class 20 Farewell" charter.
Like the previous upload this is another ex BR diesel shunter that owes its existence to the fact it was sold out of service to the UK coal industry.
1959 Swindon built class 03 no. D2037 (later 03 037) but currently devoid of any number was withdrawn from BR Norwich Thorpe Depot on 29/9/1976. It was sold to Hargreaves Industrial Services Ltd who managed the NCBOE (National Coal Board Opencast Executive) British Oak Coal Disposal point at Crigglestone in West Yorkshire where it started work in October 1977. In 1983 it moved to NCBOE West Hallam in Derbyshire before returning to British Oak in 1984. With the run down and closure of British Oak it moved again in November 1988 to NCBOE Oxcroft Coal Disposal point near Clowne in North Derbyshire. Its industrial career ended here with the sale to loco dealer Harry Needle in July 1995 and since then it has been sold into private ownership and turned up at numerous preservation lines around the country. In 2001 it arrived at the Lavender Line in Sussex before a periods at Minehead, Peak Rail and Foxfield. Its arrival here on the Royal Deeside Railway at Milton of Crathes was on 16/10/2012 and it joined sisters class 03's D2024 and 03 134 also based here. The RDR operates a Sunday only service over a mile of the former Aberdeen to Ballater branch just east of Banchory.
A football special from Manchester to Barnsley hauled by a Class 47 passing Crigglestone Junction, the train is leaving the spur from Horbury Station Junction which forms the third leg of the Horbury triangle, the only booked passenger trains over this line were a summer Saturday train in each direction between Sheffield and Blackpool. The afternoon shift signalman has just arrived on his motorbike and is waiting for the train to pass so he can walk across the tracks to the signalbox.
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Foden Haulmaster 8-wheel tipper.
Gilbert Chapple, Crigglestone, Wakefield.
BWJ 869T
Originally owned by Steetley Construction Materials Ltd, (Fleet No: T781). You can see where some of the orange paint has peeled off revealing the cream underneath. Also, on the first tipper panel, you can see where the Reg No and GVW has been painted around, as per the original Steetley livery.
The line to the left (Horbury West Curve) went off towards Crigglestone Junction and Barnsley but this section was closed in February 1991.
Tuesday 12th July 1983
40029 stands at Carlisle after arriving with a Merrymaker from the Sheffield Division on 19th January 1980.
After boarding at Barnsley, the trip took the Crigglestone Junction to Horbury Station Junction section of line, usually freight only or used by summer Saturdays trains. Passing Mirfield, we caught up with a parcels train behind 40118 slowing for Heaton Lodge Junction. We took the line to Sowerby Bridge and then the Copy Pit route, which was under threat of closure at that time. After a stop in Preston for a crew change, we went north up the WCML, racing the traffic on the M6 before going under the motorway bridge at Tebay at full bore. What a sight this must have been going up Shap! The summit was passed at around 15-20mph before the descent to Carlisle. This turned out to be the highlight of the trip! With the MkI bogeys hunting furiously around the curves and objects sliding around the carriage, it was clear we were doing more than 90mph, Having passed a "90" sign and checking the time between the quarter mile posts it was certainly in excess of 100mph...roughly 102mph!!
We arrived safely in Carlisle and here 40029 is waiting to depart with the ECS.
William Bagnall 'Austerity' 0-6-0 saddle tank 'Pepper' (W/No.2761 built in1944) at the British Oak Disposal Point at Calder Grove on 9th August 1958. The disposal point was opened by the Ministry of Fuel & Power during the Second World War and was connected by a branch from the Wakefield main line north of Crigglestone West station. A further branch from the disposal point ran to staithes on the Calder & Hebble Navigation.
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A further view of 03037 with its wheels out and up on blocks, under repair at British Oak, Crigglestone. 17th September 1985.
Horbury Junction 24-6-88 45012 is coming off the line from Barnsley at Horbury Junction on a short trip-working in more ways than one. The loco worked light-engine to British Oak Opencast at Crigglestone, picked up 10 loaded HAAs, took them to Horbury Junction and reversed them into what was left of the yard there. The loco then returned to Healey Mills light-engine.
It's a Saturday and 45060 is on the left with the the 1E36 08.40 Paignton - Newcastle. On the right is 45052 on the 1E28 07.57 Weymouth - Bradford Exchange.
Table 51 was the main peak bashers' timetable for the north east / south west corridor. Other well thumbed pages by us in 'The Bible' were tables 26, 39, 53, 83 and 135 if memory serves. The 1E36 Paignton - Newcastle was unusual in that it called at Bolton-on-Dearne, Moorthorpe and Pontefract Baghill. Table 51 however did not include these stops as they were primarily served by Yorkshire 'pay train' DMUs serving local stations between Sheffield and York. I think it was table 34. Somewhere at the bottom of table 51 would be a footnote mentioning these stops. Similarly a footnote in table 34 would mention it was a 'dated train' from Paignton to Newcastle with the obligatory wavy line through the times.
Another quirk of table 51 was 1E28 the Weymouth - Bradford, the interesting feature of this train was its route through Yorkshire to get to Bradford. I had aimed for the 1E28 joining the returning tyke holidaymakers from the south coast back to Barnsley after which the train would follow the now closed freight only line between Crigglestone Jn and Horbury Station Jn, calling at Huddersfield and Halifax on route. The peak would run round at Huddersfield and take what I recall was the then freight line to Halifax via Elland. This circuitous journey through Yorkshire would surface in a number of different tables of which I can't remember the numbers of.
45052 has arrived with the Summer Saturday 1E28 07.57 from Weymouth and this was the terminating station. The interesting feature of this train was its route through Yorkshire to get here. I had been on the train since Derby and joined the returning tyke holidaymakers from the south coast back to Barnsley then the now closed freight only line between Crigglestone Jn and Horbury Station Jn, Huddersfield and Halifax. The peak had run round at Huddersfield and taken what I recall was the then freight line to Halifax via Elland. The stock was run round and taken to Neville Hill. 45052 was one of the last peak survivors being withdrawn in June 1988, two years before the visible orange Datsun in the car park saw its last days.
Started industrial service at Bowers Row. Then 12/05/74 to Crigglestone onto West Hallam 03/78. Back to Crigglestone 28/01/85 scrapped on site by Wath Skip Hire Ltd 11/86.
08016 on the right, stabled at British Oak, Crigglestone. On the left are a very derelict LMS class 11 shunter, 12122 with class 03 D2049 behind it. The date was 19th June 1985.
Networkrails Class 73 No 73138 making an extremely rare appearance in this area of West Yorkshire on test train duty near Crigglestone, Wakefield, on the Barnsley line. The first one of the class I've seen in person.
This match was played in pretty rough conditions. Crigglestone All Blacks were playing away against Kinsley and ran out 10-4 winners. Eighteen year old Jonah Mellor is seen here about to put in a grubber kick.
If you look closely Jonah is wearing a pink bib courtesy of an earlier high tackle that drew blood.
The Rugby League season doesn't start again until 31st January, however there are always a few friendly matches in the New Year.
In the interim I might just upload a few older shots. In this case here's one of my nephew Henry Firth in action for Crigglestone All Blacks.
Looking up towards the headshunt, the loading hoppers are behind me, at British Oak, Crigglestone. 17th September 1985.
Horbury Junction 24-6-88 45012 is seen passing Horbury Junction signalbox working light engine to Crigglestone to pick up a rake of HAAs
Crigglestone Junction signal box by the Down Main line at Great Cliffe. 13:03, Saturday 21st January 1989
Crigglestone Junction signal box was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 32 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet that opened in 1901 in connection with the construction and then opening of the Crigglestone Junction to Horbury East line. The signal box was renamed Crigglestone West Junction on 2nd June 1924 and reverted to Crigglestone Junction on 12th June 1961. On 12th January 1997 the absolute bock section was extended to between Horbury Junction and Woolley Coal Siding signal boxes when Crigglestone Junction signal box and the line to Horbury Station Junction closed
The signal box carried a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard
Ref no MG/08351
47445 at British Oak near Wakefield 12th April 1969.
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Crigglestone 28-11-20 The sun is sinking fast as 20118+132 pass Crigglestone on 3s14 RHTT duty to Sheffield
grapes of wrath and seeds of greed
drought ensues, forget the dream
in the thirties penned & widely burned
& tale of oppression & no revenge
lost their homes and livelihoods
they travelled west route 66
but unfairness reigned & chances ceased
which resonates today in truth.
LMS design, but BR built, 0-6-0 Diesel Electric shunter, 12122, with a bit of collision damage, stored at British Oak disposal point, Crigglestone. 17th September 1985.
45052 is ready to leave with an ECS to Neville Hill on the 28th August 1982. The peak had arrived with the 07.57 from Weymouth and this was the terminating station. The interesting feature of this train was its route through Yorkshire to get here. I had been on the train since Derby and joined the returning tyke holidaymakers from the south coast back to Barnsley then the now closed freight only line between Crigglestone Jn and Horbury Station Jn, Huddersfield and Halifax. The peak had run round at Huddersfield and taken what I recall was the then freight line to Halifax via Elland. The station pilot in the background is 03060.