RAILSCOT | York And North Midland Railway

York And North Midland Railway

$<I>Peak</I> 45050 takes a train through Church Fenton heading for Pontefract on 14 August 1980<br> <br><br>[Peter Todd 14/08/1980]$
$The former Burton Salmon Junction, North Yorkshire, in August 1980, meeting point of the lines from the Pontefract and Castleford directions. Approaching with a train on the latter is <I>Peak</I> 45060 <I>Lytham St Annes</I>, the locomotive that took the last scheduled passenger train over the Waverley Route 11 years earlier.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/08/1980]$
$View over the embankment on the east side across lines to the closed signal box near Milford South Junction. The box formerly controlled the south to east freight spur connecting to the Leeds Selby line and sidings alongside the outside of the curve, plus a small yard used for wagon maintenance. Just how many sets of points it dealt with is anyones guess, as there are numerous crossovers where the lines from York and the south to east spur run alongside the box to become the Castleford and Pontefract lines. Through workings between York and Sheffield have to move across two tracks at reduced speed.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 19/05/2016]$

All photographs of this railway in date order.