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Bolton Trinity Street Station. - JCA00312
A Blackburn - Manchester Victoria train headed by LMS 2864 entering the station.
Littleborough Station - 1965 General view looking North East - LYR00289
LYRS 6682 - Looking from the 'up' Manchester Platform across to the 'down' Leeds Platform. The buildings on the 'up' platform have been demolished and those on the 'down' platform not in use for rail users; on both platforms there are now not very…
Littleborough Station - looking south west 1965. - LYR00294
LYRS 6689 - From the 'Down' platform looking across to the 'up' platform. The signal box and the platform buildings seen here have been demolished. Passenger facilities are reduced to not very satisfactory shelters given the exposed position of the…
Addingham Station - DNT00195
An intermediate station on the MR’s Ilkley – Skipton line it opened with the line in 1888. The station closed with the line in 1965 and the station buildings subsequently demolished and the site is now a housing estate.
Bardsey Station - DNT00150
Looking down on the station early 20th century which was on the NER's Cross Gates – Wetherby line; opened 1876 and closed 1964.
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 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.
Burley in Wharfedale Station - DNT00192
The station on the MR/NER ‘Otley & Ilkley Joint Railway ‘opened at the same time as the line in August 1865. The station was de-staffed in 1968 and the buildings demolished and replaced by bus stop style shelters, the line was electrified in 1994/5.
Bury Knowsley Street Station. - JCA00324
Curve to Bolton on the right and straight on to Wigan.
Calverley & Rodley Station, Nr. Leeds - DNT00176
The first station here on the MR Aire Valley line opened in 1846 on completion of the Leeds & Bradford Railway and known originally as Calverley Bridge. The station was completely re-built c.1900 when the line was quadrupled with the main station…
Cross Gates Station Leeds - DNT00145
Originally on the Leeds & Selby Railway which opened in 1834 from Marsh Lane which was the first station in Leeds. However due to the machinations of George Hudson, the ‘Railway King’, it fell into disuse between 1840 and 1850 and the line was not…
Crow Nest Junction, Hindley. - JCA00320
Viewed from the Hindley and Wigan direction. To the right the line to Pendleton and Manchester, Bolton straight on and to Blackpool and Horwich on the left.
Dry Clough Junction, Halifax. - JCA00317
Looking north towards Halifax Station with Dryclough Junction Signal Box in the distance. To the right the 1844 M&LR line coming up from the Calder Valley Main Line at Salterhebble which was closed 1988 and re-opened 2000. On the left the WRU line…
Eastwood Station - LYR00232
LYRS 2680 - 1880s. Station staff and maintenance ganger's at the station. The station half way between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden was opened by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in December 1840. The valley is so narrow that the track had to be built…
Eastwood Station 1963 - LYR00233
LYRS 6034 - General view from above station looking north east towards Hebden Bridge. The passenger station had closed 12 years earlier and goods facilities were to be shortly withdrawn when this photo was taken in August 1963.
The station half way…
The station half way…
Embsay Station - DNT00197
An intermediate station on the MR’s Ilkley – Skipton line it opened with the line in 1888. Seen here in a very sorry condition probably after closure in 1965.
It was re-opened in 1981 by the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway - …
It was re-opened in 1981 by the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway - …
Esholt Station - DNT00189
The station on the MR’s Shipley – Guiseley line opened at the same time as the line in 1876 and was closed in 1940 and the building subsequently demolished. The line, now electrified but reduced to single track, remains in use for Bradford Forster…
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Farnley & Wortley Station, Leeds - DNT00164
The station on the LNWR Leeds-Huddersfield-Manchester line opened in 1848. In 1882 to overcome congestion on the joint approach to Wellington and New Stations the LNWR built a separate approach, which included the Farnley Viaduct, and the station was…
Greenfield Station. LNWR Huddersfield – Manchester Line - DNT00286
One of several stations in the civil parish of Saddleworth which, although on the western slopes of the South Pennines, was in the West Riding of Yorkshire up until local government re-organisation in 1974 when it passed to Greater Manchester. It is…
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