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Dist:0.2km north<br/>The Cock & Crown public house on Doncaster Road, Crofton near Wakefield.
©Ian Russell
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The war memorial at the junction of Doncaster Road and Pontefract Road, Crofton.
©Ian Russell
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Terraced houses at the western end of Pontefract Road, Crofton. The house at the end on the left was once Crofton post office.
©Ian Russell
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This Church is in the south western corner of the O/S grid which it occupies.
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.7km north<br/>
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.8km north<br/>56024 heads a merry-go-round train of coal hoppers past Crofton Track Works. The crossing from which this photo was taken now has gates. On the hill in the background stands Sharlston Colliery, subsequently closed in 1993 and reduced to wasteland.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.8km north<br/>37123 prepares to move an engineers train from the sidings. Crofton is no longer used as a permanent way depot and the sidings leading to the buffers on the right of the photo have been removed. It is now employed as a test and maintenance depot for Voyager units - hopefully providing work for those who lost their jobs with the local colliery closures in the 1990's.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.9km north<br/>
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.9km east<br/>Pontefract Road, Crofton
©Ian Russell
Dist:0.9km southwest<br/>
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.9km west<br/>
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.9km south<br/>Crofton Highs all-weather pitch can also be seen in the distance. Looking NW from Hare Park Lane.
©Steve Partridge
Dist:1.0km west<br/>Redbeck Motel and Service Station area on the A638 at Crofton, Near Wakefield
©Ian Dimmock
Dist:1.0km south<br/>Hare Park junction viewed from the overbridge on Hare Park Lane, Crofton.
©Ian Russell
Dist:1.1km south<br/>Looking down Hare Park Lane, Crofton. There was once a station here to the right of the bridge.
©Ian Russell

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