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Suspect this is a Birmingham express at Pontefract Baghill.

Pontefract Monkhill East and LMS Class 2F 46438

Photograph by Peter Cookson. Midland 2P 4-4-0 No. 40538 brings the 9.40am Saturday Only Sheffield Midland to York local into Baghill as Q6 0-8-0 No. 63451 waits in the yard with the returning Brackenhill goods. Pontefract South signal box is on the left.

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.

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

This photograph was published in Peter Cookson's book, 'The Railways of Pontefract in Days of Steam', with the caption: There was an obvious picture to be had at Grovetown bridge of an up train between the signals. I made a number of attempts to get it right, but much depended on the circumstances at the split-second of exposure. the picture of the 7.20am stopper from York to Sheffield, leaving (Pontefract) Baghill station at 8.10am behind an LMS Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44854, was about the best that I managed. 11/04/1959

LNER Class B12 No. 61423 approaching Pontefract Baghill from the south after passing under Swanhill Lane Bridge.