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The 3 pics show a recovery train picking up CWR on the Down line at Royston Station, South Yorkshire.
I was the guard on this train and signed on at 0700hrs to 1425hrs, Wednesday 21/12/94.
The train went from HM to Wakefield, then up Oakenshaw Bank onto the up Midland Main Line through Royston, Cudworth to Grimethorpe Pit to RR the train.
We then picked the Per Way lads up at Royston to work the winches.
On one of the pics you can see a distant signal. This is for Royston Junction, about a mile up the track.
You can see on the right hand side Monkton Coke Works.
This railway was brand new and eventually was closed at Wath Road junction, at Mexboro.
I have worked West Country HST's in both directions to Sheffield on this line.
This line is now single and goes as far as Monk Bretton Glass works, where we deliver 28 trucks full of sand on Tue,Wed, Fri.
There is a RR Cudworth which is 5/8ths of a mile long.
Sometimes passenger charters come down to the RR and reverse back to Wakefield.
Please excuse the quality of the pics, they were kept in my damp garage for a couple of years,after all it was 16 years ago.