The LNER Encyclopedia

It only stuck me the other day , while looking through some old photos ,That I took many of the engines I copped , but none of the places I managed to see ,in the few years I took up "TRAIN SPOTTING " .. so I trawled over the internet , to re capture those days again . And here are six of them , of which many ,you too will have explored in your days .

The other two works were . Horwich and Gorton .. both seen at the same time ..

All theses places I saw when I joined the Northern Rail fans club , while at school . On just one excursion we took in the coach , we must have been to nearly 8 to 10 sheds and a works thrown in for good measure , And thinking of the distance to Crew from Bradford , or up to Darlington in those days , the coach drive did a really good job . It was a time in my life I am glad I saw , as after leaving school in 1963 , slowly it was coming to a end , but little did we know it , for the LAST OF THE STEAM , I never saw any thing interesting in diesels ,at all .
Leaving school , we moved to a farm [ MY FULL TIME JOB], and all my train books and mags found a new home , and I was left with only my own photos I took ,while train spotting and with the NRFC .
I am not far from the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway , both a few miles apart from where we live these days , and taking our two grandad sons there , makes me relive the past .

A Santa special at Bolton Abbey .. 2016

At one time we lived at Oakworth ..re visited again in 2015 .. We took the train from Oakworth to Oxenhope .. the wife and I

That Gorton photo is surely the shed next door? I never made it to Darlington Works (except for the scrap yard - was that a separate site?) or Gorton Works (just the shed, but all the engines were out! - or most of them).

Kudu

Hi Kudu , you could well be right about Gorton . I stand corrected .. I remember it filled in a lot of spaces in my ABC book and other sheds around Manchester , as I was at Leeds train spotting most of the time .

A post card I found on EBAY . the station has not changed a bit from the time this post card was taken ..only that there was a double track , notes how much traffic it had at the time .on reflection , thats why there was a shed at Keighley .