Up fast freight train passing Royston & Notton station
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Up fast freight train passing Royston & Notton station
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 24 Jul 1951
View northward, towards Normanton and Leeds; ex-Midland main line Sheffield - Leeds, part of the Midland trunk route London - Sheffield - Leeds - Carlisle, but a section demoted/closed in the 1960s owing to mining subsidence. In 1951 the section was still very busy: the Up Class D freight (headed by Hughes/Fowler 5P4F 2-6-0 No. 42794) is on the Fast lines, while across the platform on the Slows lines a Down freight passes with LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44374. Behind is New Monckton Colliery.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.600178
Longitude
-1.436026