Laisterdyke

37716 reverses loaded scrap wagons out of the European Metals Recycling siding at Laisterdyke, Bradford, on 1 April 1998. The train will use the crossover by the bridge to regain the main line and run down to Bradford Interchange, where it will run round before heading west via the Calder Valley to reach its ultimate destination at Liverpool's Alexandra Dock. The unused track to left of the loco, which was formerly a part of the east to south avoiding line that formed a triangle with the Halifax line, continues a short distance to a run round loop and head-shunt See image 30126. As of 2016 the loco is still at work, now with DRS.

Location: Laisterdyke (former)

Original line: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Photographer: David Pesterfield

Contact photographer: David Pesterfield

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Date: 01/04/1998

Image number: 31516


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