Archive for the ‘Parlington Lane’ Category

Heavy Rain and Flooding

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Another day of very heavy rain has washed tonnes of material down the valley of the River Crow. An unusual name for a very small river, more of a stream, it sounds as if it should be in Colorado, with mean faced Indians on horseback waiting to strike. Sadly the folk likely to strike hereabouts are gypsies, it seems they made off with a Quad bike from the local farm, also threatened the owners with “sticks”,  so I’m told, when the farmer tried to recover his goods.

Anyway, the rain continues to fall!

There is a collection of the flood pictures on Flickr

Flooding
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Garforth Colliery

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

For anyone who is interested there is a photograph of the Garforth Colliery on eBay at the moment. Ebay item 130189413153 Does anyone know which colliery it is? I think in may be Trench Pit.

Garforth Colliery

Aberford Railway

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I [Richard] have been doing a little bit of research regarding the wagons visible in the pictures of the Aberford Railway. Most of the open wagons cannot be identified beyond being typical open wagons of the era.

I’ve had more luck with the coal hoppers. The wagons in the foreground of the “Garforth Colliery” picture (Page 72, Hudson’s book) are NER Diagram P4 10.5 ton coal hoppers (some of the ones at the colliery look to be of the same type – the curved ends and general proportions are distinctive)