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FIELD EXCURSION TO BROAD LANE JUNCTION, BRADFORD. 
In connection with the General Meeting at Bradford, November 
7th, 1894, a Field Excursion was taken to inspect a section exposed 
by a cutting on the Great Northern Railway, between the bridge 
opposite " The Trees Inn " and Broad Lane Junction. The party 
was under the direction of Mr. "Walter Rowley, F.G.S., who described 
the various features of interest exhibited in the section. 
When the section was first exposed some two or three years ago, 
the Coal seams and the Fault were clearly shown, but owing to the 
weathering of the shales and rain carrying down debris from the 
upper part of the cutting, there is some difficulty in examining the 
section at the present time. 
Commencing at the bridge opposite " The Trees " a seam of 
Coal is seen, probably the C?vw Coal ; it is difficult to measure the 
thickness accurately, but it is given on the Geological Ordnance 
Map as 1' 4£". 
A little further on the Black Bed Seam is exposed, and the over- 
lying nodules of ironstone can be plainly picked out ; after this 
shales and sandstones alternate until the Better Bed Coal is exposed ; 
hereabouts a fault is shown on the Geological Ordnance, but the 
exact line of fault cannot be very clearly made out. Continuing 
past Broad Lane Junction the strata are much disturbed and con- 
tracted, ganister and sandstone being seen dipping in various direc- 
tions. 
Throughout the whole of the section the beds are highly inclined 
and much steeper than the usual dip of the district. In places the 
strata in the cutting are hidden by grass. 
The party walked back to Laisterdyke Station, and returned to 
Bradford by train. 
