The LNER Encyclopedia

As I've got loads of photographs which probably won't see the light of day unless I get my finger out and scan them, starting this thread might prompt me to do just that. They are all of official prints which were purchased from Collectors Corner at York when BR were busy selling the 'family silver'!

To start with, here are four views of bridge No.219 to the east of Gainsborough (Central) dated 12.02.1951

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal bridge, No.47, at 11m 6ch between Lower Ince and Wigan Central on 22.08.1928, with some interesting details of a wagon tip serving the canal.

Multiple crossovers on a bridge - certainly something new to me

How many of us have posters plastered under our model bridges? And those "keep left" bollards(?) - wow!

Peter

Wonder what was tipped into the canal. Couldn't see that happening these days. Well, not without all kinds of environmental hoops to jump through first.

On second thoughts, maybe it was for loading coal or something onto barges.

I can remember the coal staiths at Hartley Bank Pit on the Calder and Hebble Canal. There's a picture here of them:
http://www.canaljunction.com/craft/yorkshire.htm. It would be interesting to know what was tipped into the barges (coal?) and how the staiths operated. The rails don't look standard gauge.

Peter

Here we have two views of Lodge Lane bridge, No.35, between Newton and Hyde Junction on 21.04.1949. The third image is of the same bridge on 18.05.1951 after reconstruction for electrification, its Bridge Book description now being: Brick abutments, prestressed concrete beams, span 29ft 9in, skew span 30ft 0in, headway 15ft 0in, width between parapets 40ft 0in. A pipe bridge has now been erected to the north west.