Marshalling Yard

Sunday, 28th November 2004
Wild West Yorkshire nature diary

With a book launch pencilled in at Rickaro's bookshop a week on Saturday I need to make strides with Four Corners of Horbury. Sunday afternoon should be a good time to go to Healey Marshalling Yards to draw the diesel shunter that I want to include.

Unfortunately, it's parked in the middle of the yard, a hundred yards from the footpath. I start drawing but before I can finish the clouds part and a brilliant low sun turns the shunter into a black silhouette. Then a shower of rain comes over.

The walk out there isn't wasted; on the way back I sketch the old cast iron sign on the Island which I want to include in the book with the drawing of this old riverside property that I made a couple of weeks ago.

Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk