Sheffield - Leeds stopping train at Wath Road Junction
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Sheffield - Leeds stopping train at Wath Road Junction
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 17 Jun 1957
View SE, towards Swinton and Sheffield Midland: ex-Midland Sheffield - Leeds/York main line, approaching where the York (Swinton & Knottingley Joint) line branched off the main line to Leeds - the line via Cudworth and Normanton subsequently abandoned. Underneath here the ex-GC line from Wath Yard etc. to Mexborough etc. passed underneath. (See also for example Image]). The locomotive is Fowler 6'9" 3-cylinder Compound 4P 4-4-0 No. 41068 (built. c.1925, withdrawn 12/58). A train of high-capacity coke wagons is passing on the Up Goods line.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.4966
Longitude
-1.310024