The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Richard A Thackeray]

Michigan Central Station
Detroit

What a great building!!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/KnxBMVGAcn/michigan_central_detroit

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Locomotives
John O'Gaunts
('top end' of) Rothwell
(south-east of Leeds)

Along the A639 Pontefract Road, which becomes Leeds Road (& crosses jct 44/M1)


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They're all along the red scroll-work
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3589780

There was a couple of big Collieries behind the houses, between Leeds Road & the River Aire​

 

[Archie_tect]

Ah, John O'Gaunts, a mile from where I was born and raised. [there should be a plaque by now...]
I'd claim that as still in Woodlesford mind!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Ah, John O'Gaunts, a mile from where I was born. [there should be a plaque by now...]

I believe you've told me before?
@AuroraSaab is Rothwell-ian by upbringing

I grew up not far, to the south side of the M62. not far from Carlton

 

[Archie_tect]

It's not often I get the chance to think fondly of the Woodlesford I knew as a kid. Often walked through the rhubarb fields to get home from Rods school.

I hated it when they laid all those loose chippings through Rothwell down to Carlton Lane... why do they do that!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Archie_tect

The Church next to the Two Pointers, is now converted to a house!


View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215279787340243&set=a.10215240859167063&type=3&theater

 

[AuroraSaab]

Yes, I was born in Rothwell (it's in the Doomsday Book... Rothwell, not my birth) but moved to Manchester for Uni and have lived there ever since, apart from a couple of years after college.

I went to Rodillian School, but my sister went to Royds. Both were pretty rubbish schools in the late '70's and early '80's. Often walked home via Carlton as my friend lived near Rothwell fire station.

 

[NorthernDave]

Locomotives
John O'Gaunts
('top end' of) Rothwell
(south-east of Leeds)

Along the A639 Pontefract Road, which becomes Leeds Road (& crosses jct 44/M1)


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They're all along the red scroll-work
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3589780

There was a couple of big Collieries behind the houses, between Leeds Road & the River Aire​

I have toyed with the idea of cycling up to JoG for a pic of the bike with that sign for the A-Z thread, but can't summon up the enthusiasm for the not very cycle friendly roads I'd have to use to get there.
Maybe one day.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Yes, I was born in Rothwell (it's in the Doomsday Book... Rothwell, not my birth) but moved to Manchester for Uni and have lived there ever since, apart from a couple of years after college.

And had an inferior, smaller, less populous neighbour that we now know as Leeds...………...

I went to Rodillian School, but my sister went to Royds. Both were pretty rubbish schools in the late '70's and early '80's. Often walked home via Carlton as my friend lived near Rothwell fire station.

I certainly remember the old Fire Station, & the (was it?) Civil Defence building next door to it

 

[Archie_tect]

@Archie_tect

The Church next to the Two Pointers, is now converted to a house!


View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215279787340243&set=a.10215240859167063&type=3&theater

I sang in the choir in that church until I was 13... what a gang of irreligious toe-rags we must have looked... the choir master was the local bookie!!

 

[Archie_tect]

Yes, I was born in Rothwell (it's in the Doomsday Book... Rothwell, not my birth) but moved to Manchester for Uni and have lived there ever since, apart from a couple of years after college.

I went to Rodillian School, but my sister went to Royds. Both were pretty rubbish schools in the late '70's and early '80's. Often walked home via Carlton as my friend lived near Rothwell fire station.

I started at Rodillian when it was still the Grammar School in 1969 even before they built the M62 through the playing fields!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I sang in the choir in that church until I was 13... what a gang of irreligious toe-rags we must have looked... the choir master was the local bookie!!

She's finished now, as she's off to University, but coincidentally my daughter has sang in Wakefield Cathedral Choir, for the past 10 years

I started at Rodillian when it was still the Grammar School in 1969 even before they built the M62 through the playing fields!

My (paternal) uncle went there too, in the mid-late 50's
And, the other week I rode along the 'greenway' (ie; the East & West Yorkshire Union Railway trackbed) from Long Thorpe Lane through to (the site of) Rothwell (Station)

 

[Andy in Germany]

She's finished now, as she's off to University, but coincidentally my daughter has sang in Wakefield Cathedral Choir, for the past 10 years

That was one heck of a long concert.

(Getting hat, coat, et c)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Locomotives
John O'Gaunts
('top end' of) Rothwell
(south-east of Leeds)
Along the A639 Pontefract Road, which becomes Leeds Road (& crosses jct 44/M1)

View attachment 475882 View attachment 475884 View attachment 475883

They're all along the red scroll-work
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3589780

There was a couple of big Collieries behind the houses, between Leeds Road & the River Aire​

The 'East & West Yorkshire Union Railway' (as it was, when laid) went under Pontefract Road at this point, to service Rothwell Haigh (aka Fanny Pit) Colliery, via a spur
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=53.7635&lon=-1.4801&layers=10&b=1

Scroll down to Rose Pit, for the topic photograph

(Rose & Fanny/Francesca being the daughter of one of the owners)

 

[AuroraSaab]

Strange to think that all these small towns were initially tiny pit villages that grew into one. We used to ride along the old railway cinder track and ride our bikes up and down the slag heaps. The whole area suffers from subsidence from the mine shafts. We turned up at my junior school (Rothwell Victoria) one day to find a huge mining shaft had opened up on the playing field. As I recall, they put a small ramshakle wooden fence round it and tape between posts a bit further back lol. It was later capped off.

I remember the Lofthouse pit disaster quite well even though I was only 8 or 9.