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I had intended an orthodox photograph from the platform for this picture but I was late in arriving for it, so all I could do was to snap it from the main road and hope for the best. The subject was a Goole –Wakefield train just about to set off behind a Fowler Class 4P 2-6-4T. The raised mound in the centre of the picture behind the fence was all that remained of a goods platform and the siding serving it came from a point half-way down the up bay platform; roughly where the locomotive is. When I first knew the station in 1947 the siding was still in use but the goods shed had already gone. Note on the left a line of coal wagons bearing witness to the fact that mineral traffic was still being dealt with. Just out of view on the left there was a weigh bridge and a goods office. If memory is not deceiving me, both James Wilby (Coal) and a Stewart’s Slate and Tile Depot were represented there. Just to the left of the locomotive on the far (down) platform was the men’s urinal of a rather odd design with its own quite imposing crenellations.  Photo Peter Cookson.

Peter Cookson Railway Photography
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