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  • Collection: Atack Family Railway Collection

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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.

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Original postcard. In the foreground the three arch viaduct on the original M&LR Calder Valley Main Line. Behind it the impressive 23 arch viaduct completed 1851 on the WRU line from Milner Royd up to Dryclough Junction south of Halifax Station.

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In the foreground the three arch viaduct on the original M&LR Calder Valley Main Line. Behind it the impressive 23 arch viaduct completed 1851 on the WRU line from Milner Royd Junction up to Dryclough Junction south of Halifax Station.

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L&YR passenger train at the station. The line here opened in 1852 on completion of the massive Copley Viaduct and the station was opened in 1856 and closed 1931.

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Opened in 1855 to serve the Akroyds model village.

When the Halifax Branch up from Salterhebble to Shaw Syke was extended into the town centre and on to Bradford in 1850 a small temporary station was built in Halifax at the bottom of Horton Street…

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Pre-Grouping in 1923 this was the GNR Goods Station in Bradford then becoming the LNER's.

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Wigan and Preston lines to the left and the Blackburn Branch curving away to the right.

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This is a capstan winch it would have been used to move trucks in a goods yard without needing a locomotive
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