Lanky Day Out

What is a Lanky Day Out?

It’s a day when members of the Society get together to look at a particular aspect of the railway usually in the form of visiting sites and parts of the old LYR system. The days are relaxed and as well as the organisers, many members provide information about the area visited, bringing photographs and maps of the places to be seen with discussions taking place on site and everyone learning more about the LYR. It is a day of interest and discovery which is usually enjoyed by all.

Small pamphlets are produced for these days out with photos and details relevant to the location. There are limited stocks of past issues available via the 'shopping' link on the left.

Spring Meeting - Lanky Day Out

Saturday 21 March 2009

Circular Rail Tour via Huddersfield, Halifax, Barnsley

Meet at Wakefield Kirkgate Station 10.35am

Tel or email Martin Nield before 14th March
(members only)

2009 Lanky Day Out

Sunday 28 June 2009

This year we will be visiting the line between Wakefield and Goole.

Start at Wakefield Kirkgate around 10.30am for a look at this big Lanky station (there is free parking in station forecourt) before visiting the nearby ruins of Belle Vue loco shed.
Move on to Knottingley, originally a joint station with the GNR, which has been rebuilt as a modern bus-shelter station, but with lots of parking. There is the site of a small Lanky shed (demolished 1966) and new (1966) loco shed with lots of big diesels for coal trains — sort of a new version of Wakefield shed.
Have a look at the preserved Hensall station which is very interesting indeed. Parking is limited, and we shall probably have to park on road nearby.
Stop off at Hensall Junction, a mile or so east of Hensall. This is the junction of the L&Y with the Hull & Barnsley line (The H&B line is now a dead-end spur to Drax power station for coal trains). There are remains of the H&B loco shed for transfer traffic, though access may be a problem.

Move on to Goole. There is potentially a fair bit to see but sites are still to be confirmed; however it will include a visit the Yorkshire Waterways Museum. There may be a possibility of a trip around the docks at Goole run by the Waterways Museum on a refurbished ship’s lifeboat. At the docks the extensive Lanky sidings have been lifted in preparation for constructing a new “intermodal rail terminal”, and currently are a wasteland of scrub and piled up rotting sleepers. The old yard lights are still there at present (ex-LNER or BR ones, though) as are the brick-built shunters’ bothies and yard offices. The ex-L&Y goods offices on Stanhope Street are now flats, but from the outside look just as they did in L&Y days.

This will be yet another interesting Lanky Day Out and we look forward to seeing you on what should prove to be a memorable trip.

Meet at the station forecourt at 10.30am.

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Previous Days Out

2008 - we went from Pendleton to Wigan


2007 - we went from Todmorden to Burnley & back to Ramsbottom


2006 - saw us on the Fylde


2005 - we were on the Spen Valley line


2004 - we followed the Oldham loop


2003 - on the Penistone Line


2002 - we visited the Bolton Area


2001 - Sowerby Bridge to Todmorden

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