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This photograph appears in Peter Cookson & Steve Chapman's book, Railway Memories No.15 Pontefract Castleford & Knottingley with the following caption:

An old tar boiler grabs the attention along with a solitary slotted distant signal at Ackworth Moor Top. The cranes on the horizon though are evidence of the quarries which produced high quality grindstones which in earlier years were despatched by rail from the goods station.

Photographer, Peter Cookson

The photograph also appears in John Farline & Peter Cookson's book, Railways Around Wakefield And Pontefract with a new caption:

The rather chaotic site of Moor Top goods station in 1960. Nothing remains of the goods station itself but a reminder of NE days still existed in the form of an old wooden fixed-distant signal, and the branch was still open for coal traffic from Hemsworth colliery.