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Hebden Bridge Station, 1962. - HBC00724
The arch under the tracks coming down from Palace House Road, the road in much better condition than it is today.
Hebden Bridge Station, 1962. - HBC00725
The road arch under the tracks leading up to Crow Nest and Palace House Road. The wall to the right is part of Victoria Mill, now long demolished.
Leeds Station Concourse 2004 - DNT00140
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…
Leeds 'Dark Arches' - DNT00141
The 'under belly' of Leeds Station in 2006. Many users of Leeds Station are unaware that it sits atop a massive Victorian complex of vaults and arches spanning the River Aire, the so called ‘Dark Arches’, reputedly comprising 18 million bricks.…
Leeds 'Dark Arches' Exterior 2006 - DNT00143
The state of the art Leeds Station sitting atop a labyrinth of Victorian vaults and arches known as the Dark Arches. The surrounding area has been further re-developed since this photo and there is now also a passenger foot access to the station…
Beneath Halifax Station. c.2006 - DNT00239
Originally this dark and insalubrious looking tunnel beneath the station had been for vehicular access to the goods yard at the station’s front and it also it provided a pedestrian access up until the early 2000s to steps up to the station approach,…
Halifax Station. Underside of the High Level Approach - DNT00240
The site of the former GNR lines and sidings running to the front of the station building.
Halifax. Original Pedestrian Gateway to the Station - DNT00241
When the station was built in 1855 the main access was by a sweeping carriage drive from opposite the bottom of Horton Street but there was also this pedestrian access which was blocked up when lines and platforms to the front of the station were…
Halifax Station 2009 - DNT00242
The recently restored platforms and canopies looking down the line towards Beacon Hill Tunnel. To the right the up line ansd site of the up loop and to the left the former Platform 3 now along with the station building used in connection with Eureka…
Halifax Station Disused Steps - DNT00243
Remains of the steps down to the disused former Platform 3.
Halifax - DNT00244
The viaduct from the station to Beacon Hill Tunnel on the Bradford/Leeds line and just off the image to the right the preserved coal drops. Centre right the lighter stone work covers the abutment to the former viaduct that carried the line to North…
Halifax Coal Drops - DNT00245
The site of the coal yard above and to the right of the drops is now the car park for Eureka Children’s Museum.
Halifax. Site of the Coal Yard - DNT00246
Now the car park for Eureka Children's Museum. The top of the coal drops hidden from sight by the bushes and trees on the right.
Halifax Station - DNT00247
View looking north east from the station approach road and bridge. On the right the south west portal of Beacon Hill Tunnel and on the left part of the former coal yard now car park for Eureka Children’s Museum. The trees at the far end of the car…
Halifax Station High Level Access Bridge - DNT00248
The high level access was built in the mid-1880s when the station was considerably enlarged including sidings, lines and platforms to the front of the station now, as seen here, car parking and access road to Eureka Children’s Museum. To the right a…
Halifax Station High Level Access Bridge - DNT00249
The newer stonework in the bridge parapet above the centre pillar blocks off what had been the top of steps down to the to the island Platforms 5 & 6 to the front of the station building.
Halifax. Site of North Bridge Passenger Station - DNT00250
The station opened on the joint GNR/L&YR’s Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway in 1880 nearly six years after the line between Halifax Station and Holmfield had opened. The station closed in 1955 when passenger service between Halifax and Queensbury…
Halifax. Site of North Bridge Goods Station - DNT00251
By the mid-1860s Halifax Station was considered particularly inconvenient for goods traffic causing delays to the ever necessary delivery of coal and to relieve this bottleneck it was proposed removing mineral and general goods to a station at North…
Halifax Station from the South - DNT00252
On the left part of Eureka Children’s Museum but this and all the grassed area seen here had been lines and platforms built in the mid-1880s for use by the GNR. To the right is the handsome Italian style station building dating from 1855 but now used…
Halifax. GNR Warehouse West Elevation - DNT00253
The now disused warehouse a little to the south of the station with the site of former sidings now car parking for Eureka Children's Museum.
Halifax. GNR Warehouse South elevation - DNT00254
The main line is just off the view to the right behind the bushes.
Halifax. Shaw Syke Yard and GNR Warehouse - DNT00255
View looking across Shaw Syke goods yard down to the GNR warehouse. Taken in April 2010 just after the yard had been cleared for temporary council public car parking. The remains of rails just visible between the cobbles.
Halifax. Shaw Syke Goods Shed South West Elevation - DNT00256
The shed on the north side of Water Lane was built by the L&YR about the 1850s. The original terminus station on the south side of Water Lane became the Goods Office at the same time. Today (2017) it stands derelict.
Centre left is the disused…
Centre left is the disused…
Halifax. Shaw Syke Goods Shed 01-04-2010 - DNT00257
The roof showing signs of sagging and the yard cleared for temporary council public car parking.