RAILWAY COTTAGES

I'm intrigued by the location of the C12, is it Springhead Halt?. I remember seeing the rail tour advertised in rail enthusiast about the peak tour when i was 13. I waited all day for it too pass Hessle Haven at my aunties house. It was getting late so i thought it was a no show and went into the kitchen just as the peaks belted belted past the window :-( . I had to wait nearly 30 years before i found out what they were.

I used to know a shunter who worked on Priory , lived on Grimston road, Anlaby. Can't remember his surname but he was called jack, dead now but you might have known him. Had an allotment next to my dad's plot behind the waterworks. He told me that the tramway was operated by shire horses.

Beyond the fence line is the tramway leading up to Springhead pumping station, would be nice if someone had a picture of this?. I have seen a picture many years ago, taken from the main gate at the waterworks in 1940 showing a run around loop set into the cobbled road circa 1940, it was part of the Lord Line collection.

Apparently Today is the 175th anniversary of the opening of the Barton upon Humber line, Anyone got any photo's of the line, Especially along the Albright & Wilson fertilizer branch.

as a kid between 1983 and 1988 i used to go for my dinner at my aunties at her railway cottage at Hessle Haven when most games played on a Saturday and i never saw one!. My uncle was a retired signalman by that time and he used to make a list of all loco's passing the house during the past week for me. 45/1's where regular performers on passenger trains but 45/0's were very rare birds. You might get one on a freightliner if you where lucky or the 15:30 Leicester train, The gaps in my Platform five pocket books bear testimony to this. My query was did Peaks ever work over to the eastern docks and i never personally saw one on a booked freight train.

Thankyou for your very detailed synopsis on this subject, but i'm not wholly convinced. Capacity, speed and connectivity seems to be the mantra of the modern railway and passengers travelling twix Hull and Scarborough get a raw deal. The last time i travelled to Filey was in 2021 and passengers numbers where very healthy. The last time i went Scarborough was in 2019 and people had to stand in the aisles until Bridlington on the return; large numbers de-trained to my surprise; OK it was pre-pandemic. The line was heavily upgraded between Hull and Driffield i believe a few years ago, heavy engineering work to improve line speeds. So if the will is there especially the political will, improvements can be done. A train breaking down on a single line section causes delay and chaos on any busy railway.

I'm intrigued, which one was it? and the location. That spring and summer i used to see 45007 regularly haul the Healy mills coal train past HESSLE HAVEN at 8pm, others seen 45103 and 45113. I was 14 and retired from train spotting after that when i realized how daft it was!.

Would be fantastic if anyone had any pictures of Peaks at Springhead, or even on test runs up to willerby. One thing does surprise me, that they would be allowed over the bridges at Calvert Lane. I never saw a Peak on the over head railway to the docks, i presume due to weight restrictions

WHY?, Have you ever sat on a train at Bridlington going up to Scarborough waiting for the for the train from Scarborough to clear the single line section coming in the opposite direction, when it's running late!. If one train is delayed then the knock on effect is two trains running late. As for demand, trains are rammed between those two resorts, especially at weekends. Interesting column in HDM flashback from early 1970's front page the other week explaining British rails sabotage of the Hull -Scarborough line, They wanted to close the line down to save money due to loss of subsidy.

East Riding of Yorkshire library service have copies of THE HULL AND BARNSLEY Rly volumes 1&2 if you don't want to spend £70 buying your own copies.. An interesting excerpt in volume 2 discusses TYPE 4 peaks visiting Springhead for rectification work. Does anyone have any recollection of this or any photos?

Should be double track throughout all the way to Scarborough.

Does anyone have details about an excursion hauled by double headed class 31's at about this time AUTUMN 1994, belting past Hessle haven?

LNER G6, looks like another relic of life expired lamentable NE heritage palmed off onto the H&B. If the LNWR had opted for Hull by taking over the H&B instead of trying to reach Hartlepool, our railway landscape would have had a different outcome to this.

It would be very interesting if someone could over lay a modern aerial photograph of Saxondale to pinpoint this precise location.

These Bricks are at least 140 years old and weigh the equivalent of eight house bricks, very heavy. I did try and source some from a brick abutment owned by a private land owner at Gowdall junction, but they had one flat side so didn't match. It comes to something when private individual's have to resort to protecting our heritage, when the council who own it can't be bothered.