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Wetherby Station - DNT00152
Seen here early 20th century on the NER’s Cross Gates – Wetherby line. This is the second station in Wetherby the first having been on the Church Fenton- Harrogate line but when the line from Cross Gates opened in 1876 it’s junction with the…
Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean - ALC00812
"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…
Train leaving Mytholmroyd Station, c1908 - ALC00214
An Aspinall 4-4-2 'High-Flyer' heading a passenger train towards Hebden Bridge. This section of track had been quadrupled in 1906.
Todmorden Station - LYR00253
LYRS 2798 - The north east end of the station and water tank in L&YR days.
Todmorden 2002 - CRN00413
North Street, note the train making its way over the bridge. There's an interesting mix of architectural styles in the buildings on the left.
Stanningley Station - DNT00161
The station on the GNR ‘short line’ between Leeds Central and Bradford Exchange had opened at the same time as the line in 1854. In 1878 a single track branch was opened from Stanningley to Pudsey but this was disconnected at Pudsey in 1893 when the…
Stainland Branch - West Vale Station. - LYR00151
LYRS 2596 - West Vale Station in LMS days with a Halifax bound Railmotor. Unusually for a small station it had stone buildings on both platforms. This Railmotor LMS No. 10614 has a double bogie in addition to its articulated coach, quite a load to…
Stainland Branch - West Vale Station. - LYR00150
LYRS 2595 - Hughes 0-4-0RM No 4 at West Vale Station. An intermediate Station on the Stainland Branch.
The Stainland Branch left the Calder Valley Main Line at Greetland and opened in 1875 up to near Brookroyd Mills at Holywell Green, whose owners,…
The Stainland Branch left the Calder Valley Main Line at Greetland and opened in 1875 up to near Brookroyd Mills at Holywell Green, whose owners,…
Stainland & Holywell Green Station. - LYR00149
LYRS 2599 - Stainland Station & Goods Shed with Railmotor No 10614 (LMS) in the later 1920s.
The Stainland Branch left the Calder Valley Main Line at Greetland and opened in 1875 up to near Brookroyd Mills at Holywell Green, whose owners, the…
The Stainland Branch left the Calder Valley Main Line at Greetland and opened in 1875 up to near Brookroyd Mills at Holywell Green, whose owners, the…
Sowerby Bridge Station. - LYR00125
LYRS 2785 - Sowerby Bridge Station - looking towards 'Down' Bay platforms in BR period. The Bay platfoms have gone as have the signal box, signals and cylindrical water tower. The lines going off to the right are for the Rishworth Branch (closed to…
Sowerby Bridge Station 1951. - LYR00126
LYRS 4331 - 1951. Sowerby Bridge Station - general view of platforms, buildings and canopies looking east. The canopies are already in a dilapidated condition and were soon to be demolished and replaced by the concrete structures we see today. The…
Sowerby Bridge Station 1910. - LYR00123
LYRS 4330 - Sowerby Bridge Station - general view looking east in 1910 with unidentified Aspinall. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with canopies which were taken down after the Second World War.
Saddleworth Station. LNWR Huddersfield – Manchester Line - DNT00285
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.
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Richard Shepherd - ALC03325
Probably taken in the early 1960s.
Pudsey Low Town Station - DNT00163
In 1878 a branch from Stanningley on the GNR Leeds-Bradford ‘short line was opened up to Pudsey Greenside with a station here. Then in 1893 a curve from Bramley to the Pudsey Branch was constructed which was then extended to Cutlers Junction at…
Penistone Station - DNT00301
The first station at Penistone on the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway’s (later Great Central) Sheffield – Manchester Woodhead line opened in 1845. When the L&YR line from Huddersfield to Penistone opened in 1850 it joined the Woodhead…
Osmondthorpe Station, Leeds - DNT00144
The station, or probably a halt, on the Leeds Selby and York line was opened in 1930 by the LNER between Marsh Lane and Cross Gates stations following construction of a large housing estate. It was closed in 1960. The station is seen here possibly…
New Station, Leeds - DNT00133
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…
Mytholmroyd Station Staff - LLG00106
1965. Booking clerk David Sutcliffe and porter Charlie Green with east bound train approaching. At the time the station staff consisted of the Station Master and his clerk, three Booking Office clerks and three porters. It was fully de-staffed in…
Mytholmroyd - West bound train c1908 - ALC00457
A westbound train, headed by an Aspinall 4-4-2, departing from Mytholmroyd Station pre-First World War. It is running on the 'slow' lines which would have been unusual for an express train, possibly due to the 'fast' line being recently…
Meltham Station. L&YR Meltham Branch - DNT00292
The station, seen here in 1910, was the terminus of the 31/2 mile Branch. The Branch opened to goods traffic in 1868 and to passengers in 1869. Passenger services were withdrawn from the Branch in 1949 and it closed fully in 1965. The site is now…
Marsden Station, LNWR Huddersfied – Manchester Line - DNT00283
Marsden Station like other stations on the LNWR’s Huddersfield Manchester line along the Colne Valley opened with the line in 1849. It was enlarged in the mid-1890s when the line was increased from two to four tracks. It is seen here at an unknown…
Manchester Exchange Station. - JCA00325
Opened by the LNWR in June 1884 it closed for passenger traffic in May 1969.
In 1929 a platform link was constructed with nearby Victoria Station creating Europe's longest platform at 2,238 feet (682 m).
In 1929 a platform link was constructed with nearby Victoria Station creating Europe's longest platform at 2,238 feet (682 m).