St Dunstans Station, Bradford - DNT00227
Adverts, Bradford, GNR, Great Northern Railway, Places, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Platform, Station Signage, Station Staff
The station opened in 1878 and was built as an interchange station between the GNR’s Bradford – Leeds line and their Quensbury lines so that passengers could change between the lines without having to go into Exchange Station. It closed in 1952 due to the reduction of traffic on the Queensbury line which closed in 1965.
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David Taylor
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PHDA - David Taylor Collection
Kirkstall Station, Leeds - DNT00172
Abbey, Adverts, Airedale, Canopies, Fence, Gas Lamp, Kirkstall, Lamp, Leeds, MR, Midland Railway, Noticeboard, Places, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Platform
The station on the Leeds & Bradford Railway’s Aire Valley Line opened at the same time as the line in 1846 which became part of the MR network. A new station, the Leeds Platform seen here, was built when the line was quadrupled in about 1905 and the label across the image coupled with the advertising boards still to be fixed to the fence suggest the photo was taken about the time of completion. Unfortunately it is not possible to make out the date on the poster. In the background the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey.
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David Taylor
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
PHDA - David Taylor Collection
Pudsey Greenside Station - DNT00162
Adverts, Bridge, Chimneys, Footbridge, GNR, Great Nothern Railway, Leeds, Platform, Pudsey, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Signal Gantry, Signal box, Signals, Station, Station Building, Station Canopies, Station Platform, Tunnel Portal
In 1878 a branch from Stanningley on the GNR Leeds-Bradford ‘short line was opened up to the station here with an intermediate station at nearby Pudsey Lowtown. Then in 1893 a curve from Bramley to the Pudsey Branch was constructed which was then extended to Cutlers Junction at Laisterdyke via Dudley Hill creating both the Pudsey Loop and at Dudley Hill a connection to Low Moor and the Spen Valley. The branch from Stanningley was disconnected becoming a siding for Stanningley.
Seen here looking towards Greenside Tunnel the station closed in 1964 and the loop the following year once again leaving Pudsey without a railway in the town although a new station named New Pudsey was opened by BR in 1967 on the main Leeds-Bradford line but a mile from the town.
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David Taylor
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PHDA - David Taylor Collection
Leeds Station Concourse 2004 - DNT00140
Adverts, Cafes, City Station, LMS, Leeds, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Concourse, Station Platform
The art deco concourse was built in 1938 at the same time as the adjacent Queens Hotel was rebuilt in the same style. The concourse was built to link Wellington Station, re-named City North, with New Station, re-named City South, but there remained no passenger thoroughfare between the two once through the ticket barriers. Wellington Station closed in 1966 and its site is now the station car park.
The square arches seen here on the left of the concourse around the shops and cafes originally housed the ticket barriers to Wellington Station’s platforms which were immediately behind. As a boy at school in Leeds in the 1950s David Taylor remembers regularly walking up the concourse when there were former LMS locos only a matter of metres away behind the barriers and the whole concourse was pervaded by that unmistakeable smell of steam locomotion.
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David Taylor
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DNT00272.tif
New Station, Leeds - DNT00133
Adverts, Island Platform, Leeds, NER, New Station, North Eastern Railway, Passenger Train, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Train, Train Shed
A North Eastern Railway Leeds to Edinburgh service about to depart for York from New Station. The roof sign with its back to the station advertising Waddington Pianos was on New Station Street, off Boar Lane, which was the access to the station from the city up until 1938 when the great Art Deco concourse we see today was built. In the mid-1930s the station was re-named Leeds City South, usually just known as City Station. Today as the only station in the city centre, and completely re-built, it is just Leeds Station.
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David Taylor
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PHDA - David Taylor Collection
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DNT00267.tif
New Station, Leeds - DNT00131
Adverts, Buffet, LNWR, Lamp, Leeds, London & North Western Railway, NER, New Station, Newspaper Stall, North Eastern Railway, Passengers, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Clock, Station Concourse, Station Platform, Station Signage, Train Shed, pillars
The station concourse Seen here late 19th or early 20th century and before ticket barriers were erected to the right of the newsagents. The station was accessed by New Station Street off Boar Lane. When it was built in 1869 by the LNWR and NER it became the third station in the city centre; the adjacent Wellington Station and Central Station some quarter mile distant had been built a couple or so decades earlier.
Note the centre door of the refreshments building is just for the First Class Refreshment Rooms!
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David Taylor
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PHDA - David Taylor Collection
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English (U.K.)
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DNT00265.tif