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Wakefield to Goole
1848 - Present
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 
Contributors:  © Reproduction prohibited / Andrew Stopford / David Ambler  / K.H.Owen / Michael Kaye / Paul Corrie / Michael Kaye / David Webdale
The Route
From Wakefield Kirgate to Goole, via Crofton, Sharlston, Featherstone,
Pontefract Tanshelf, Pontefract Monkhill, Knottingley.

Length
27 miles
Original Companies
The original company was the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway.
Taken over by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in 1846.
The Manchester & Leeds became the Lancashire & Yorkshire in 1847.

Opening
 1848.




















  14 Crofton
Railway Ramblers gazetteer
See also the Railway Ramblers gazetteer - Wakefield Pontefract station jn to Pontefract east jn

Wakefield Kirkgate L&Y
Opened 05-10-1840.
Wakefield (30-07-67) : Roy Lambeth    Website - www.dmm.org.uk/mindex.htm           See also Calder Valley
 42149
Wakefield (30-07-67) : Roy Lambeth
 42267
Wakefield (30-07-67) : Roy Lambeth
 42269
Wakefield (30-07-67) : Roy Lambeth
 42650
Wakefield (16-04-67) : Roy Lambeth
  44857a
Wakefield (30.7.67) : Roy Lambeth
 48157
Wakefield (30.7.67) : Roy Lambeth
 77002
Wakefield (30.7.67) : Roy Lambeth
 92211 crunch.
Wakefield (30.7.67) : Roy Lambeth
 92215.11.05
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 Class 37 tankers. Station building in the background.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 Class 37 with hoppers.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 Heavy load for a class 31.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 40 with mixed.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 40 with van.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 31 with van.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 08 with hoppers & van.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 Class 20 with vans.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 47s with hoppers.
Wakefield Kirgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 37 loitering.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing west (c1980) : David Webdale
 40 with mixed follows a 47 with hoppers. This kind of shenanigans went on all day.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing east (c1980) : David Webdale
 Class 25 & hoppers.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing east (c1980) : David Webdale
 Class 40 freight from Normanton.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing east (c1980) : David Webdale
 Peak with parcels from Normanton.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing east (c1980) : David Webdale
 Class 31 & guards van on the Pontefract line.
Wakefield Kirkgate facing east (c1980) : David Webdale
 Semaphores & signal box.

Crofton station
Crofton station (nd) : Michael Kaye
Crofton yard.
Crofton junction (nd) : Michael Kaye
Crofton junction.

Sharlston Streethouse station
 Sharlston Streethouse (n.d) : David Ambler
 I cant tell you when the date is but this photo belonged to my wife's grandfather who is the man on the left.
Cottage (n.d) : David Ambler
 Crossing Keepers cottage Red Lane Streethouse. Now demolished.
Signal Box (n.d) : David Ambler
Either east or west of Streethouse near Pontefract. I cannot be sure.
Note : Michael Kaye
The signal box is Streethouse East, this being that in the background you can see a signal bracket, this was for the ‘junction’ into Snydale Colliery L&Y also a line runs behind the signal box, the box was located on the ‘down line’ and the photograph is looking towards Featherstone and is taken from Red Lane Crossing.

Sharlston Streethouse signal box (c1980) : K.H.Owen
Sharlston Streethouse (nd) : David Rush c/o David Ambler
Photographed by David Rush see more here http://www.flickr.com/photos/avaskeg/6381743543/in/photostream
see also 'pontefract heritage group' on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=60879856@N05&q=streethouse

Sharlston Colliery
 Sharleston Colliery (c1980) : C/O Michael Kaye with permission from Paul Corrie       See also Colliery lines
Class 56 at Sharleston Colliery.

Pontefract
 Knottingley road viaduct (Bond Gate) (30-05-08) : Andrew Stopford  
Viaduct over the Knottingley road (Bond Gate) out of Pontefract - note no parapet and check out the greenery growing on top!
Disused connecting curve between L&Y Monkhill & the NER / Midland Baghill stations.
See also the Railway Ramblers gazetteer - Wakefield Pontefract station jn to Pontefract east jn

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