The big black cloud that had been stubbornly hanging over this wonderful view thankfully passed jut moments before the train arrived in the warm evening sun. A Great Western 'Castle' in Yorkshire is a rare event, so I was delighted to be allowed a 'flyer' from work to get me to this fine sweeping curve location in time. The locomotive was returning south from an excursion to York. No.5043 'Earl of Mount Edgcombe' is a 1936 product of Swindon. Confusingly, many 'Castles' were not named after castles at all! The linesman's hut that adds so much to the view is a rare survivor. The brooding cooling towers and chimneys of Ferrybridge Power Station dominate the horizon.
