RAILSCOT | Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway

Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway

Dates

11/03/1998	Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway Shunter deployed to Goole Docks due to volume of traffic.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Wakefield Kirkgate

...

More details

See also
Manchester and Leeds Railway

195011 to Leeds at Wakefield Kirkgate, seen from 158901 with the ex-11.09 Northern service from Leeds to Nottingham, that I travelled on from Leeds to ...
David Bosher 21/09/2023

40046 at Wakefield Kirkgate on a mixed freight in October 1980. One went here to see the Healey Mills 40s at work. Some of them were to me rare birds. ...
Roger Geach 23/10/1980

Up close and personal view of preserved former LNER Gresley A4 Pacific 4468 (BR 60022) 'Mallard', as it runs east non-stop through Wakefield Kirkgate ...
David Pesterfield 31/07/1988

Derby built ex-BR Class 11 Shunter 12082 rests by the stop block for the reception sidings to the former Cobra Railfreight steel terminal, alongside ...
David Pesterfield 28/05/1996

4 of 43 images. more

Crofton Junction

...

More details

See also
West Riding and Grimsby Railway

Crofton West Junction

...

More details

See also
Crofton to Grimethorpe Line (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)

Streethouse

...

More details

Northern Rail's 15.07 service to Wakefield Kirkgate comprising single unit 153301 leading a Class 150/2 DMU departs Streethouse Station over Whinney ...
David Pesterfield 14/08/2009

Level crossing gate on Whinney Lane to the west of Streethouse station on the abandoned branch to Sharlston Colliery (closed 1993). The connection to ...
David Pesterfield 14/08/2009

View east at Streethouse Station, 4 miles east of Wakefield Kirkgate, on 19 April 1992, with platform works nearing completion. The station was opened ...
David Pesterfield 19/04/1992

3 of 3 images.

Featherstone

...

More details

View from 158815 from Leeds to Knottingley arriving at Featherstone, which has staggered platforms either side of a level crossing, on the afternoon ...
David Bosher 20/09/2023

1 of 1 images.

Pontefract Tanshelf

...

More details

158815 from Leeds to Knottingley heading away from the camera as it departs from the reopened (1992) station at Pontefract Tanshelf, on Wednesday, ...
David Bosher 20/09/2023

1 of 1 images.

Pontefract Monkhill

...

More details

See also
Pontefract and Methley Junction Line (Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway)

National Power 59202 is turning off the Wakefield line at Pontefract Monkhill to head along the spur to Castleford station with a rake of empty coal ...
David Pesterfield 23/06/1997

1 of 1 images.

Knottingley

...

More details

See also
Burton Salmon to Knottingley Line (York and North Midland Railway)

66535 with coal for Drax passing Knottingley station in January 2013. ...
Roger Geach 09/01/2013

A young Class 60, 60009 Carnedd Dafydd, runs light engine through Knottingley station from the west. This particular 60 is presently (Jan 2011) ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/1994

47179 photographed at Knottingley with a train of coal hoppers in April 1980. ...
Peter Todd 14/04/1980

Class 56 No. 56078 runs light engine westwards through Knottingley, heading from the depot that lies immediately to the east of the station. In the ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/1994

4 of 4 images.

Knottingley Depot West Junction

...

More details

Whitley Bridge

...

More details

66004 passes through Whitley Bridge with the 0600 Redcar to Drax coal in March 2015. ...
Roger Geach 04/03/2015

GBRf class 60 60087 runs east through Whitley Bridge station on 31 July 2023, whilst working service 6H70, the 09.54 ex Tyne Coal Terminal loaded ...
David Pesterfield 31/07/2023

GBRf class 60 60002 runs over the level crossing by Whitley Bridge station with the return empty 6M36 09.54 Drax P.S. to Tuebrook sidings biomass ...
David Pesterfield 31/07/2023

Whitley Bridge station, on the Knottingley to Goole line, on 4th September 2017. Although the line is busy with freight the station is only served by ...
Mark Bartlett 04/09/2017

4 of 4 images.

One of the attractive Aspinall ex-L&YR 0-4-0ST Pugs used for shunting in and around the extensive Goole docks, where it spent almost its entire ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1960

One of a plethora of diesel shunter types built for BR in small numbers and fated to a brief existence, D2865 had emerged from the works of the ...
Bill Jamieson 12/08/1970

2 of 2 images.

Goole (L and Y)

...

More details

Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway

Dates

Locations along the line

Wakefield Kirkgate

Calder Bridge Junction

Oakenshaw West Junction

Crofton Junction

Crofton West Junction

Crofton East Junction

Crofton

Sharlston

Streethouse

Featherstone

Pontefract Tanshelf

Pontefract Monkhill

Pontefract Goods Junction

Knottingley

Knottingley Depot West Junction

Whitley Bridge Watertroughs

Whitley Bridge

Hensall

Hensall Junction

Snaith

Rawcliffe

Rawcliffe Bridge Junction

Goole West Junction

Goole Docks

Goole (L and Y)

Quick links

The Big Five

The Big Four

Photographs

Share

Scenic Lines

Contact