March 1972
It is thought that the hole in the road incident was caused by the collapse of the goit. They poured 5 tons of concrete in the hole, thinking the water was coming off the hillside. The concrete was washed away overnight. After the hole was…
This photo can be dated after 1965 (when the gallows signals outside Millwood tunnel were removed) but before 1973, when the signal box was demolished.
The station opened here when the section of the Manchester and Leeds Railway between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge was inaugurated in December 1840. The station closed in 1951 but the coal drops remained in use until the mid-1960s.
The reamarkably preserved station on the Leeds-Manchester Victoria main line; the original signage restored to its Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway colours. The two functioning and heated Waiting Rooms are host to a permanent photographic exhibition…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…