"Just look at the awful graffiti on that diesel" remarked my wife as we were out walking on this deliciously bright morning. I didn't have the heart to tell her that the 'graffiti' was designed by... (more)

This is the confluence of the Calder & Hebble Canal and the River Calder at Eastmoor, Wakefield. Canal boats can join the Calder at this point for about two miles and then re-join the canal system... (more)

Great Victorian Railway Structures in Yorkshire No.2 - 99 Arches Viaduct, Wakefield. Built in the mid-1860s by the Great Northern Railway, the viaduct snakes southward out of Wakefield on the main... (more)

The removed driving rods tell their own story. Barely two months earlier these two locomotives were in service. Now they stand forlornly on one of the side roads at Wakefield MPD, awaiting the ine... (more)

Dominated by the power station, this was the sight that greeted visitors to Wakefield MPD. The shed was easily accessed off Doncaster Road and was approached by a short, steep 'cinder path' as lov... (more)

Wakefield MPD was a favourite haunt of mine. Easy to get to (12 miles from home), easy to get round (no awkward officials) and usually packed full of steam even at this late date. It was not unusu... (more)