'Tom Pudding' transport returns for city festival

As the last remaining type of their kind, this "Railway on the Water" was unique to the Aire and Calder Navigation and operated for 125 years until finally ending in 1986.

Trains of up to 38 Tom Puddings, or flat bottomed floating containers, were a way to move goods.

Judy Jones, heritage advisor for British Waterways said: "It's fantastic news that the waterways museum are able to bring along such an important piece of living history and the project to restore them has been so successful. They're a unique early example of canal transport and one that most people probably won't be aware of."