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The image is taken from a postcard with August 1910 postmark.



When built in 1846/50 there was only one platform behind the magnificent station frontage and the station was not enlarged until 1886; in August 1885 during the enlargement…

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The magnificent Grade I listed station building; the imposing frontage was described by John Betjeman as 'the most splendid in England' and Nikolaus Pevsner considered it to be one of the best stations in the country. Its grandeur owes much to the…

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Kirkburton Station was the terminus of the LNWR’s Kirkburton Branch and opened with the Branch in 1867. The line and station closed to passenger traffic in 1930 when the LNWR’s successor, the LMS, obtained a half share in the Huddersfield…

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Kirkheaton Station was an intermediate station on the LNWR’s Kirkburton Branch. The station opened about the same time as the Branch in 1867. The line and station closed to passenger traffic in 1930 when the LNWR’s successor, the LMS, obtained a half…

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Bradley Station a few miles north east of Huddersfield was the first station on the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway (H&MR) after its line branched off the L&YR’s Calder Valley Main Line. The H&MR opened to Huddersfield in 1847 although by then it…

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Telegram from Greetland Station.

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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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An express train on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway at the turn of the century, reproduced from a painting by F. Moore executed for Sir John Aspinall, the General Manager. The locomotive is one of the 4-4-0s built at Horwich while he was Chief…

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"SOUND AND FURY - Atlantic No. 1419 storms away from Poulton-le-Fylde with a Blackpool-Manchester express."
[From a painting by H. M. Le Fleming, based on a photograph by J. M. Tomlinson.
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