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Beeston Station, Leeds, 1961 - DNT00157
On the GNR Leeds - King Cross main line only a few miles out of Leeds centre it opened in 1860 and closed 1953.
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,…
Berry Lane Bridge, Halifax - TWA00155
This is Berry Lane as it passes under the Charlestown Viaduct. The buildings seen on the left on the other side of the viaduct are part of Riding Hall Carpet Mill. To the right of the photographer will be the coal yard associated with the coal drops,…
Tags: Berry Lane, Halifax, Railway, Railway Viaduct, Railways
Bingley First Station - DNT00179
The station on the Leeds & Bradford Extension Railway between Shipley and Colne opened at the same time as the section of the line between Shipley and Keighley in March 1847. The station on its last day as seen here was near the Bingley Three Rise…
Bingley Station - DNT00180
The station seen here is Bingley’s second station and was opened in 1892 replacing the earlier station which was a little to the west near the Three Rise Locks on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. It remains open.
Blake Dean Trestle Bridge - ALC00985
The rail or tramway was used for the transportation of men and equipment from the base camp at White Hill Nook, Heptonstall, to the construction site of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs in the early 1900s.
Blake Dean Trestle Bridge - ALC00991
The rail or tramway was used for the transportation of men and equipment from the base camp at White Hill Nook to the construction site of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs.
Tags: Railway, Railways, Transport, Trestle Bridge
Blake Dean Trestle Bridge - EIL00118
This Post Card, one in the Valentine's Series, is quite a well known photo. In the 1950's local teenagers would gather to swim in the Green Lady pool which formed around the remains of the stone foundations used to support the structure (which was…
Tags: Blake Dean, Buildings, Construction, hut, People, People at Work, Places, Railway, Railway track, Railways, Trestle Bridge
Bolon Abbey Station - DNT00196
An intermediate station on the MR’s Ilkley – Skipton line it opened with the line in 1888. The great popularity of Bolton Abbey made it a very busy station particularly in summer with excursion trains of several railway companies; it was also the…
Bolton Trinity Street Station West End. - JCA00322
Wigan and Preston lines to the left and the Blackburn Branch curving away to the right.
Bolton Trinity Street Station. - JCA00323
Blackburn line to the right; Wigan and Preston straight on.
Bowling Junction and Site of Station - DNT00230
Looking in the Halifax direction with the north portal of Bowling Tunnel all but hidden by smoke. The line in the centre continues to Bradford Exchange and the line going off to the left is the Bowling Curve to Laisterdyke where it joined the…
Bradford Exchange Station - DNT00219
A terminus station seen here after the introduction of DMUs so probably about 1960. The first station on the site was built in 1850 and operated by the L&YR but the impressive double vaulted train shed seen here dates from 1888 when the station was…
Bradford Exchange Station - DNT00220
Looking out from the double vaulted train shed along the tracks which carried all of the terminus stations passenger traffic. As a result of line and station closures in the mid-1960s the traffic was considerably reduced and the station was…
Bradford Forster Square c.1914 - DNT00214
In the centre the single storey entrance to the Midland Market Street Station which had been rebuilt and enlarged in 1890 largely to accommodate the increased traffic from the MR’s recently completed independent Anglo Scottish line, the…
Bradford Forster Square Station 1984 - DNT00218
In the 1960s the Victorian glazed roof was dismantled and replaced with the butterfly awnings seen here and about the same time services from the station were drastically reduced following closure of lines and stations. In 1990 a new truncated…
Tags: Bradford, Bridges, Canopies, DMU, Forster Square, Midland Railway, MR, Places, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Signage
Bradford Forster Square Station Approach Roads c.1950s - DNT00217
The approach to Forster Square Station in BR days. Date unknown but seemingly prior to dieselisation in the late ‘50s/early’60s. In the centre of the photo is Valley Road Power Station which closed in 1975 and was demolished in 1978.
Bradford Market Street Midland Station Train Shed c.1915 - DNT00216
The station here was originally built in 1846 by the Leeds & Bradford Railway which had been formed to connect the two towns with a railway along the Aire Valley; it was acquired by the MR in 1853 who rebuilt the station. It was intended that when…
Bradford Market Street Midland Station Train Shed c.1915. - DNT00215
The station here was originally built in 1846 by the Leeds & Bradford Railway which had been formed to connect the two towns with a railway along the Aire Valley; it was acquired by the MR in 1853 who rebuilt the station. It was intended that when…
Braithwaite Station 1948 - TAL00289
Roomfield School outing. AN 34131789
Bramley Station Entrance, Leeds - DNT00160
On the 'short line' from Bradford to Leeds Central Station opened in 1854 by the Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway which was acquired by the GNR in 1865. The station closed in 1966 and the buildings were demolished; a new station with bus…
Bramley Station, Leeds 1966 - DNT00159
On the GNR ‘short line’ from Leeds Central to Bradford the station opened with the line in 1854. To the west of the station there was the junction with the Pudsey loop line which had opened in 1893 and closed in 1965. Bramley station closed in 1966…