BR goods shed - location?

[Copeland]

Can anyone identify the location of this goods shed interior? The only clues are: it is in BR days, 'Newport' is scrawled on the left hand wall and 'Return to Pontefract' is sign written on the trolley standing on the island platform. I had assumed it was Newport Dock Street Goods shed in South Wales from my local knowledge, but now I am not so sure. Track plans and photographs in my possession do not show a three (or four) road shed under a double hipped roof, so I think I can rule that location out. Could it be in Yorkshire?
Difficult to identify maybe, but any help would be appreciated.

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[caliwag]

Welcome...

You don't get too many shots inside goods sheds unfortunately. Initially I thought it was Selby goods shed, the former passenger station, which does appear in photographs because it dates from the early 1830s. However yours is built of stone and Selby, in common with most of East Yorkshire, is brick.

Other parts of Yorkshire (West/North) near quarries, are of stone. There was a Newport on the Hull and Barnsley line to Hull, so two Yorkshire places possibly implies Yorkshire. In reality, it is quite a large goods shed and rare to see timber posts instead of the usual cast iron.

I know none of this helps, but it'll be a process of elimination and a bit of archaeology. The excellent volumes of The History of North Eastern railway Architecture by Bill Fawcett may be useful.

Good luck.

 

[jp4712]

I'd expect that a chalked mark on a wall like that would denote that the goods being piled in that area are for Newport: so I think the shed would be somewhere from whence goods were commonly sent to Newport. There'd be a rake drawn into the shed and if it was arranged as wagonload, you'd chalk on the wagon its destination: and if you were piling stuff up before the wagons arrived, you'd chalk it on the wall so all the freight for Newport went in a neat pile ready to load. And as caliwag pointed out, there's more than one Newport to consider.

It's more likely that the shed is in the Pontefract area, as trolleys weren't supposed to go far. But there's always the possibility that it has been 'liberated', but if so it's still going to be somewhere a lot closer to Yorkshire than South Wales.

Paul

 

[gordonthemoron]

Didn't Middlesborough used to be called Newport?