A scene that is the epitome of Yorkshire in times

past! To the centre-left is the winding tower of Manvers Colliery with its coking plant belching out the black smoke to the centre. Our train has just left the Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway (S&K) route that is the only one still in use today and is diverging onto the now-closed and long removed Midland route with Wath Road Junction signal box dominating the view. The signalman's white Morris Marina, complete with a rather natty vinyl roof, is parked on an area of land now occupied by a large RBS office as part of the Adwick Business Park. It is absolutely astonishing to compare just this very ordinary photograph with the present-day view with all that can be seen here comprehensively wiped away.