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  • Collection: Atack Family Railway Collection

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On the Holmfirth Branch off the Penistone Line. It opened in 1850 and closed in 1959 and the track was dismantled in 1966.

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Chain driven with a max speed of 8 mph and imported 1910/12.

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Leyland RAF type built at Horwich 1917/18.

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Built by Dennis and supplied to the L&YR in 1914 it had a permitted speed of 12mph

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In passenger coaching stock colours it was one of the first L&YR motor vehicles .

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Ford Model T chassis supplied 1916 with pneumatic tyres on the front

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Milnes-Daimler chassis and body put on at Newton Heath.

1904 worked alongside B-2085 on the Blundell Sands - Crosby and Thornton route as seen here.

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Commer chassis. Replaced B-2085 working the Chorley - Bamber Bridge route as seen here.

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Milnes-Daimler chassis and body put on at Newton Heath.

1904 worked the Blundell Sands - Crosby and Thornton route and then later the Chorley - Bamber Bridge route as seen here.

Eventually converted to a lorry and worked until 1926.

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This is a capstan winch it would have been used to move trucks in a goods yard without needing a locomotive

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Seen here sometime after closure of the station in September 1962.

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The small intermediate station between Greetland on the Calder Valley Main Line and the Branch terminus at Holywell Green. Whilst the terminus station had only one platform West Vale has two both with stone buildings unlike some on the Main Lineā€¦
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