Boston Lodge Bottom Yard.

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Boston Lodge Bottom Yard.

Boston Lodge Bottom Yard, November 1957. Prince and then Taliesin (II) are on the outside pit on the left. Beside them is one of the Hudson Toastrack bogie carriages, almost totally reduced to a flat waggon. The two Toastrack carriages (the other survivors were already reduced to flats prior to closure) were used for a time to carry rails, telegraph poles, etc., with the original seat ends acting as bolsters. They were converted to floorless flats for carrying sleepers by burning off the bolts holding the seat ends. On 2-Road, Brown Marshalls Vans Nos 4 & 5 (carriages 11 & 12) are in the course of renovation. No. 4 would shortly be rebuilt as an observation car. On 3-Road can be glimpsed the cement waggon (gunpowder van No. 152) with a cement mixer behind, and the Peckett, recently purchased from Harrogate Gas Works.

Note that the right angle tracks running across the yard are still in place, as indicated by the the slate waggons near 1-Road and the waggon turntable underneath the gunpowder van on 3-Road.

Source. Edward Henson.

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