MORE CHURCHES THAN PUBS

We've just about finished with Selby, but we haven't visited the loco shed, so here a couple of photos from LNER days.

Selby West signal box once controlled one of the accesses into the MPD, plus the junction with the Cawood Light Railway. Today, its main function is to supervise the level crossing.

We'll take a trip towards Cawood and soon arrive at Wistow station.

Wistow has a fine church, dedicated to All Saints.

Inside All Saints Church, Wistow.

Another All Saints Church, this time in Cawood.

Cawood was once important in C of E circles. This is part of the Bishop's Palace.

The end of the line from Seby, at Cawood station.

Sadly, the Bay Horse in Cawood closed in the 1990s.

Fortunately, the Ferry Inn is well and truly in business and serving pints.

Cawood is one of the few crossing places of the navigable River Ouse. The swing bridge is seen on this old postcard view.

Open for river traffic.

A modern view of the bridge.

The village, as seen from the bridge......

......and now from across the river.

We now proceed to the small village of Ryther, where there's another All Saints church!

It's quite pleasant inside, with the tomb of Sir Robert Ryther and his wife, Maud.

We now reach the former NER York to Leeds route, at Ulleskelf station.

Ulleskelf station is still open today. West Riding buses also served the village.

The next station towards York was Bolton Percy, now closed. Here it is in NER days and in 1961, the latter photograoh by the late Ben Brooksbank.

The new(ish) Selby diversion of the East Coast Main Line passes by the village of Bolton Percy and here, in 2000, 37116 'Sister Dora' speeds along, light engine.

Not far away is the village of Appleton Roebuck, where Sykes' Coaches once had its depot.

Guess what? Appleton Roebuck has a church, named after All Saints.

Appleton Roebuck once had a windmill. The remains of it can be seen from Colton Junction, the north end of the Selby Diversion.

Here's a few trains passing Colton Junction, all taken in 2016.

To finish off this post, we'll partake of a few beers at the Sun Inn at Colton itself.

The next post will see us visiting a great brewing town. Follow the route here.