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Title: Sowerby Bridge General View. - LYR00121
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Title
Sowerby Bridge General View. - LYR00121
Description
LYRS 2786 - Sowerby Bridge - general view of the town looking east across the station & coal yard and drops.
This station was built in the late 1870s when the branch to Ripponden was opened. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with canopies and a large imposing Tudor-style station building looked down Station Road. The branch line, not visible on this photo, passed behind the station by-passing the platforms before going under Scar Head in Ripponden Tunnel.
The canopies were replaced after the Second World War with the concrete structures we see today. Apart from a single storey building, seen here, the rest were hastily demolished following fire damage in 1978 but the station was staffed until 1985.
This station was built in the late 1870s when the branch to Ripponden was opened. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with canopies and a large imposing Tudor-style station building looked down Station Road. The branch line, not visible on this photo, passed behind the station by-passing the platforms before going under Scar Head in Ripponden Tunnel.
The canopies were replaced after the Second World War with the concrete structures we see today. Apart from a single storey building, seen here, the rest were hastily demolished following fire damage in 1978 but the station was staffed until 1985.
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Source
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society
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PHDA - Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
LYR00121.tif
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Unknown, “Sowerby Bridge General View. - LYR00121,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/12772.
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