On display today at a local open day 60050/86 + 37503
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Nice, but needs a little spit and polish … 
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Interesting! Are you allowed to say where? (Googling Shires Removals only hinted. )
steve
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I see there are suggestions the line used peat as fuel at one stage, and noting the turfing nearby (peat?), I wonder if it was a refuelling stop?
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Hi Steve, while the site is normally closed to the general public, if you give them a ring on the number in the 2nd photo, a visit could be arranged, it’s next door to Hemsworth water park at Kinsley.
Yesterday was an open day celebrating the company and owner’s 50th anniversary with lots of other interesting things on display.
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Thanks! And noted. 
steve
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That sounds like a possibility, or that it was simply a point at which carts loaded with peat were added to a train to be distributed for sale.
In the words of Toyah ‘It’s a mystery’ and Wiki suggests the line was equally for agricultural and foodstuffs (as you suggest) – it could have been an old water tower, given the circular base, but why across the line with a track – idea dismissed! Would help to know what was there before the evergreen wood was planted – I wonder of evergreens chosen as they like moist environments?
I think she sang about a "Mistewee’
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Some fine machines. Is that top one a replica or a real Cali? It’s the lack of armed guards and a security fence that leads me to ask!
Folland Gnat? If so, there’s an old YouTube clip of a Gnat doing amazingly low, low level flying if you are interested.
I would say replica, a very nice one
It looks it. It looks fantastic in the picture, to be fair.
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There were about 80 cars on display, quite a lot of very nice Golf’s GTI’s etc, various Fords and a few original Mini’s.
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