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Halifax Station 1863 - DNT00234
The arrival of the Prince of Wales for the opening of the Town Hall in August 1863. A rare image of the 1855 station with the original curving carriage drive from opposite the bottom of Horton Strret to a central portico. When the station was…
Halifax Station c.1900 - DNT00235
HCC00489. The high level approach road built in the mid-1880s when platforms and sidings were constructed to the front of the 1855 Italian style station building.
The station was operated jointly by the London & Lancashire Railway and the Great…
The station was operated jointly by the London & Lancashire Railway and the Great…
Halifax Station Approach Road early 20th Century - DNT00236
The high level access road built in the mid-1880s when platforms and lines were constructed to the front of the original 1855 Italian style station building here on the right.
The station was operated jointly by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway…
The station was operated jointly by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway…
Halifax c.1909 - DNT00237
View of the town from Beacon Hill with the railway goods and coal yard centre and the high level station approach and station centre left.
Halifax c.1920 - DNT00238
View from Beacon Hill with the railway goods and coal yard in the centre.
Photo David N Taylor Collection.
Photo David N Taylor Collection.
Lancashire & Yorkshire Raillway Posters. - JCA00300
Two posters reproduced in the Railway Times in 1921.
Luddendenfoot Water Troughs 1938. - JCA00301
Former L&YR loco on a passenger train takes up water on the troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.
Luddendenfoot Water Troughs 1938. - JCA00302
Goods train hauled tender first over the water troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.
LMS No. 12527 near Sowerby Bridge 1938 - JCA00303
Eastbound train between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Bridge passing on the right the rear of Luddendenfoot Congregational Church.
L&YR Passenger Train, Mytholmroyd.. - JCA00306
Westbound train between Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge which section of track had been quadrupled in 1906.
L&YR Passenger Train. - JCA00307
Location uncertain but possibly coming out of Sowerby Tunnel westbound.
Copley Station, Nr. Halifax. - JCA00310
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.
L&YR No. 1670 - JCA00313
Re-numbered by the LMS to 10441.
Shaw Lane Bridge, Halifax - JCA00314
This is the Simmons Lane / Shaw Lane bridge near the Holdsworth Bridge Signal Box just south of Halifax Station and the entrance into the goods reception sidings.
Halifax from Beacon Hill. - JCA00315
Photo taken from above the top of the south portal of Beacon Hill Tunnel Too grainy to make out much detail but the GNR platforms to the front of the station building do seem to be there but difficult to make out if the Queensbury Line is.
Greetland Junction, South End. - JCA00316
The Stainland Branch going off to the right with the east end of Greetland Station up platform; the main line continuing towards Elland Tunnel. Greetland Station itself closed in 1962 and the Stainland Branch had closed to passenger traffic in 1929…
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…
Low Moor, Nr. Bradford. - JCA00318
An important Junction station in its day not least due the proximity of the vast Low Moor Iron Works. Whilst the junction on the Halifax - Bradford with the Spen Valley line opened in 1850 the station had opened a couple of years earlier. The…
Spen Valley Junction, Huddersfield. - JCA00319
Labelled as found. Looking in the direction of Mirfield.
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.
Bury Knowsley Street Station. - JCA00324
Curve to Bolton on the right and straight on to Wigan.
Copley Station, Halifax. - JCA00326
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…
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…
Copley Viaducts, Halifax. - JCA00330
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.