Baghill Ticket Office

On my walk with Alana today we passed Baghill train station. This is the old ticket office, now bricked up. Pontefract is odd in that it is a small town with three train stations. The other two are just platforms really but Baghill was, to me, a proper train station with buildings containing a ticket office, a café and waiting rooms. It's now the worst served of the three with just two trains a day between York and Sheffield. The times would not suit working in either city! When I was younger we used to catch the train to York from here. I remember once we had a carriage with the little rooms and a corridor along the side - just like the Hogwart's Express! I also remember Prince Charles visiting Pontefract and crowds lining the road to this station as he departed the town, I'm assuming by train. Something to do with a new drift mine and the colliery being called the Prince of Wales I think.

Put some picture frames up today and printed out some family pictures to go in them. Not a lot else. Wish it wasn't work in the morning.