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View eastward, towards Mirfield, Leeds, Wakefield etc.: Calder Valley main line, ex-L&Y and LNW Joint four-track stretch (Heaton Lodge - Thornhill Junctions). The 13.15 Leeds City - Manchester Exchange, headed by Stanier 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45704 'Leviathan' (built 5/36, withdrawn 1/65), is being passed by an eastbound empties train on the right. On the left outside the Shed is one of the LMS Fowler 7F 0-8-0s which worked much of the intensive east-west coal traffic until scores of ex-WD 2-8-0s were brought to the district. In 1950 Mirfield (code 25D) had an allocation of 40 locomotives:- 12 (ex-WD) 2-8-0, 3 2-6-0, 6 0-8-0, 11 0-6-0, 6 2-6-4T and 2 0-6-0T.