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<previous image West of Pontefract Monkhill next image> Some hundred yards further on a similar train is crossing over to the up main line behind No 90260. Maximum effort was required from the locomotives in starting these heavy trains on a 1 in 150 up grade with numerous crossovers to negotiate, especially in wet weather. My own memories of these trains go back to my childhood in Queen Street during the war. The sound of them could be heard – seemingly for ages – as they struggled from a dead stand at Monkhill to their passage over the summit of the line between Tanshelf and Featherstone. During the hours of darkness the sound of the locomotive and the clanking of buffers on the wagons was strangely comforting. Peter Cookson. Peter
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