The long-closed ex-NER lines that once connected Wetherby to Leeds, Harrogate and York would now have been a major benefit to the town had they survived. Alas, it was not to be.
With a daily pick-up goods in May 1965, York MPD's Ivatt '4MT' 43138 heads east passing Wetherby East signal box.

© Stephen Barrett Archive. Steve Armitage Collection