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  • Collection: Atack Family Railway Collection

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Tank Locomotive No. 1008, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
Designed by John Aspinall, this locomotive was placed in service in 1889. No. 1008 was the first locomotive to be built at Horwich Works, and was designed to operate the numerous busy…

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Opened by the LNWR in June 1884 it closed for passenger traffic in May 1969.

In 1929 a platform link was constructed with nearby Victoria Station creating Europe's longest platform at 2,238 feet (682 m).

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Wigan and Preston lines to the left and the Blackburn Branch curving away to the right.

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Undated postcard. Taking up water at troughs at an unidentified location with triple or quadruple track. Can Anybody identify the location?

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1,200 H.P. Horizontal Cross Compound Engine at Ryburne Mills, Halifax, by Pollit & Wigzell, 1922. Photograph kindly loaned for reproduction by HALIFAX COURIER LTD.

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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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A L&YR Manchester to Harrogate Express passing over the water troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.

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Westbound between Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge; the track here had been quadrupled in 1906.

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On the left the small Booking Office looking here decidedly closed. On the right the timber passenger facilities on the up platform. The steps connecting the two platforms can just be made out from the the down platform at the end of the Booking…

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Looking down the line towards Hebden Bridge Station. Land for the line through Hebden Bridge was purchased from the Mytholm Estate of the Rev. Armytage Rhodes which included Weasel Hall on the site of the tunnel. Although the Hall was tenanted…

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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 Line…

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

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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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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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Looking up the line in the Todmorden direction. Land for the line through Hebden Bridge was purchased from the Mytholm Estate of the Rev. Armytage Rhodes which included Weasel Hall on the site of the tunnel. Although the Hall was tenanted Armytage…

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