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Title: Stainland & Holywell Green Station. - LYR00149
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Title
Stainland & Holywell Green Station. - LYR00149
Description
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 Shaws, had influenced the line’s construction. Although less than two miles long it was heavily engineered with two substantial stone viaducts; West Vale 13 arches and Holywell Green 14 arches. The single platform station at Holywell Green was poorly placed down a steep hill well below Stainland.
Despitein 1907 the introduction of railmotors the Branch was unable to cope first with competition from electfic trams and then from motor buses and closed to passengers in 1929 and fully in 1959.
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 Shaws, had influenced the line’s construction. Although less than two miles long it was heavily engineered with two substantial stone viaducts; West Vale 13 arches and Holywell Green 14 arches. The single platform station at Holywell Green was poorly placed down a steep hill well below Stainland.
Despitein 1907 the introduction of railmotors the Branch was unable to cope first with competition from electfic trams and then from motor buses and closed to passengers in 1929 and fully in 1959.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society
Date
1920s
Rights
PHDA - Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
LYR00149.tif
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Stainland & Holywell Green Station. - LYR00149,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/12800.
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