Source: Peter E. Baughan, “North of Leeds: the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle line and its branches” , Roundhouse Books (1966).
On page 191, Baughan states that Joseph Firbank was awarded the contract to construct the Appleby South Junction line on 4 April 1875 and that the price agreed was £8,346.
On page 192, Baughan states that:
- this short section of railway was "about 3/4 mile in length",
- the construction of the south junction & associated link lines was delayed by a shortage of labourers during the 1876 harvest season and further delayed during January 1877 by "excessively stormy weather", and that
- the link lines were ready for ballast by April 1877.
On pages 192-3, Baughan quotes the following from a Midland Railway engineer's report dated 5 June 1877:
... the Appleby South Junction curve is quite finished and the final certificate appended ... the use of the curve is retarded by the non completion of the North Eastern Company's junctions and as the management of the affair has been removed from the engineer to the general manager I can offer no information respecting it.