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Lancashire And Yorkshire Railway

$View east at Streethouse Station, 4 miles east of Wakefield Kirkgate, on 19 April 1992, with platform works nearing completion. The station was opened to passengers on 11 May that year, along with the restoration of train <br> services between Wakefield and Pontefract.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 19/04/1992]$
$National Power 59202 is turning off the Wakefield line at Pontefract Monkhill to head along the spur to Castleford station with a rake of empty coal wagons on 23 June. The line to the extreme right, running behind the eastbound platform, is that formerly serving Prince of Wales Colliery loading point. [Ref query 3757]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 23/06/1997]$
$Level crossing gate on Whinney Lane to the west of Streethouse station on the abandoned branch to Sharlston Colliery (closed 1993). The connection to the Pontefract - Wakefield line was approximately 100m to the left of the crossing.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 14/08/2009]$
$Bombardier Transportation's maintenance facility built on the site of the former Crofton PW Depot, adjacent to the Wakefield to Pontefract / Goole line, seen here on 17 February with First TransPennine Express 170303 under test in the sidings. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 17/02/2010]$

All photographs of this railway in date order.