2. Railways

Colton Junction and Church Fenton

Week two of the 2006 summer tour and this part of the world is well known to me as I used to live at nearby RAF Church Fenton in the mid 1980's and never wanted to leave. The half Yorkshireman in me had a yearning to stay, but the RAF had other ideas and I did get moved away. This was however a great day on an old stomping ground and I relished the traction but wished I could be back in 1985.......with my digital camera. Sigh!!! 7/8/2006
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    At last some freight action! 66184 comes off the Normanton road with empty HTA hoppers, 4G88 Drax power station to Tyne Dock coal empties.
    One last photograph with an old friend, 158767 runs through with 1P52 1703 Manchester Airport to Newcastle. The old friend is the station by the way.
    On the ECML at Ryther, to the east of Church Fenton, and 91122 propels it strain south. The working is 1A45 1810 Newcastle to Kings Cross. This part of the ECML is the Selby Diversion, constructed in the early 1980's to avoid mining subsidence in the Selby Coalfield.