Monday 29th
Part of my route home from work at about 14:20
Sometimes if it’s light enough l’ll ride this way & through NewLands Woods
Alongside the River Calder (upstream), after joining it at ‘Stanley Ferry’ (where the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal crosses it on an Aquaduct)
It’s an old railway route, from (the long gone) St Johns Colliery to loading staithes/slipway for the ‘Tom Puddings’
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The Grade 1 listed Aquaduct
If you look at the OS map below the image, you can see the ‘dismantled railway’ route
The red road (Aberford Road/A642) is;
South-west = Wakefield
North-east = jct 30/M62
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6929731
This is a ‘Tom Pudding’, once in the water, they were chained together (7 or 8?) & towed all the way to Goole, where they were bodily lifted out of the water & tipped into waiting vessels
Hence I followed the line as it 'exits stage left'
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