Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley (Railway Memories)

by SteveChapman (Author), PeterCookson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $4.14

  With photographs supported by introductory text, track layouts, operating instructions and timetables brought to life by the reminiscences of people who worked in the area, Railway Memories No 15 recalls the busy railway network serving the West Yorkshire towns of Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley during the 1950s and 1960s. It takes a fascinating and nostalgic look back at the stations, yards, signal boxes, colliery railways and the trains of such variety that no less than 46 differenct classes of locomotive are featured - not counting sub-classes or colliery and industrial locomotives.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $13.92

  This work takes us back to a time when the railways of Calderdale (West Yorkshire) carried top link express trains, Saturday excursions packed with holidaymakers bound for Blackpool and the east coast, and a seemingly endless procession of freight trains; when Heckmondwike, Cleckheaton, Ripponden, Queensbury and Dewsbury's market place were all served by the railway network, and when Mytholmroyd, Sowerby Bridge and Mirfield were important railway centres. The first chapter sets the scene by outlining the development and decline of Calderdale's railways, as well as the passenger and freight services operating over its tracks.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $16.21

  With photographs supported by introductory text, track layouts, operating instructions and timetables brought to life by the reminiscences of people who worked in the area, Railway Memories No 15 recalls the busy railway network serving the West Yorkshire towns of Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley during the 1950s and 1960s. It takes a fascinating and nostalgic look back at the stations, yards, signal boxes, colliery railways and the trains of such variety that no less than 46 differenct classes of locomotive are featured - not counting sub-classes or colliery and industrial locomotives.