Industrial Locomotives & Railways of Yorkshire

The sixth in the regional series of books examining the industrial railways of England, Wales and Scotland, this volume covers the former Ridings of Yorkshire, from the Pennines on the Lancashire county boundary in the west through to the Humber Estuary. The vast railway systems serving the British Steel industry and iron ore workings around Scunthorpe will also be examined along with the locomotives and railways. The widespread coal mining activities that strongly influenced Yorkshire throughout the 20th century will be documented, without overlooking the coal by-products complexes, including Orgreave, infamous during the years of the Thatcher government, when many coal mines and their supporting railways were rapidly dwindling in number. A former peat bog railway on the Swinefleet moss near Goole, water treatment plants around Leeds and Bradford, stone quarries in North Yorkshire and a tile works by the Humber Bridge all contribute to the rich history of this area.