Peter Cookson Railway Photography
Pontefract Steam in the Snow

The combination of snow and condensing steam at low temperatures could make steam train photography difficult and it is evident in this photograph of the 1.45pm Goole - Leeds train pulling away from Pontefract Monkhill Station in about 1957. Much of the side of the Fowler 2-6-4-T No. 42311 is obscured by steam leakage from the cylinders. The picture shows some detail of the swan-necked gas lamps which illuminated the platforms at the time.  Peter Cookson.

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