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- LYR00148
LYRS 1818 - Railmotor Coach No 3 at Stainland & Holywell Green Station. 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…
Bolton Trinity Street Station. - JCA00312
A Blackburn - Manchester Victoria train headed by LMS 2864 entering the station.
Cornholme - Stubley Siding Signal Box, - LYR00241
LYRS 3810 - The railway siding off the Todmorden - Burnley line behind Jobling Terrace was the coal depot for Cornholme and a collecting point for coal merchants but it was closed after the First World War.
Eastwood Station Level Crossing. - LYR00234
LYRS 6036 -- The Level Crossing and Station Buildings in August 1963 some 12 years after the passenger station closed. The station half way between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden was opened by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in December 1840. The valley…
Halifax Station - Goods building. - LYR00174
LYRS 2699 - Halifax had three L&YR goods sheds on two sites at Shaw Syke, two demolished and the third in a dire and near derelict condition for all that it is Grade ll Listed. Unfortunately it's not clear which this one is but most likely one of the…
Hebden Bridge - Crimsworth Dean - LYR00227
LYRS 4204 - Lumb Waterfall, Grimsworth Dean, nr Hardcastle Crags,( note the incorrect spelling Grimsworth not Crimsworth) as featured on a B&W postcard published by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway promoting days out to Hebden Bridge by train.
Hebden Bridge Station - Signal Box - LYR00217
LYRS 6043 - Front & non-door end in 1963. The track in front of it ran to a buffer stop at the east end of the 'up' platform and has now been lifted. F&T Lumbs building behind has been demolished.
Hebden Bridge Station 1951. - LYR00215
LYRS 4478 - General view of the 'up' platform, buildings and canopy in 1951 with westbound Stanier 4-6-0 Class No. 45421. The station warehouse to the left and Victoria Mill beyond were demolished in the late 1960s. The sleepers on the platform…
Hebden Bridge Station Frontage. - LYR00211
LYRS 2705 - Station frontage and forecourt in BR days. Date unknown but a poster to the right on the end of the building advertises walks in the West Riding which dates it pre-1974. The upper floor looks to be still occupied as the Station masters…
Lancashire & Yorkshire Raillway Posters. - JCA00300
Two posters reproduced in the Railway Times in 1921.
Littleborough Station - 1965 General view looking North East - LYR00289
LYRS 6682 - Looking from the 'up' Manchester Platform across to the 'down' Leeds Platform. The buildings on the 'up' platform have been demolished and those on the 'down' platform not in use for rail users; on both platforms there are now not very…
Littleborough Station - looking south west 1965. - LYR00294
LYRS 6689 - From the 'Down' platform looking across to the 'up' platform. The signal box and the platform buildings seen here have been demolished. Passenger facilities are reduced to not very satisfactory shelters given the exposed position of the…
Luddendenfoot Station - LYR00185
LYRS 6068 - 1963. The 'Up' Manchester platform and timber buildings a year after the station closed. The platform had been accessed from the Leeds platform by a footbridge which is just visible on the left.
Mytholmroyd Station - Platform support brackets - LYR00202
LYRS 6063 - 1962. The platforms not only ran the length of the viaduct but also overhung it supported by these massive iron brackets. Not entirely without incidents:
"A few months ago a large flagstone dropped out of the platform at Mytholmroyd…
"A few months ago a large flagstone dropped out of the platform at Mytholmroyd…
Mytholmroyd Station - LYR00198
LYRS 4578 - 1951. General view of the platforms, buildings and canopy looking east. Only the canopy and adjacent building now survive but disused and passenger facilities are bus-stop style shelters on each platform. The station was de-staffed in…
Portsmouth Level Crossing Signal Box - LYR00246
LYRS 5063 - The front & non-door gable of the Box and part of the level crossing.
Smithy Bridge Signal Box 1965. - LYR00299
LYRS 6695 - The rear & non-door gable with the level crossing and subway entrance.
Todmorden Station - Warehouse and platforms - LYR00270
LYRS8677 - 1967 Looking from the 'down' side across to the then disused 'up' warehouse.
Addingham Station - DNT00195
An intermediate station on the MR’s Ilkley – Skipton line it opened with the line in 1888. The station closed with the line in 1965 and the station buildings subsequently demolished and the site is now a housing estate.
Apperley Bridge & Rawdon Station - DNT00177
The station on the Leeds & Bradford Railway’s Aire Valley Line opened in July 1846 a few weeks after the line. This station was replaced in 1900 by the one seen here when the line was widened to four tracks. The station closed in 1965 but a new…
Ardsley Station - DNT00156
An intermediate station on the Bradford, Wakefield & Leeds Railway between Leeds and Wakefield which opened in 1857 and became part of the GNR network in 1865. The station closed in 1964.
Armley & Wortley Station, Leeds - DNT00158
After Holbeck High level this was the first station out of Leeds Central on the GNR ‘short line’ to Bradford which had opened in 1854. The line was also used by the L&YR for their Leeds traffic from Bradford, Halifax and the west.The timetable…
Armley Canal Road Station, Leeds - DNT00171
The station seen here looking very derelict. Originally just Armley it was the first station out of Leeds on the Bradford & Leeds Railway which opened via the Aire Valley in 1846 quickly being acquired by the MR. BR changed its name to Armley Canal…
Arthington Station, 1950s - DNT00184
The first station here, known as Pool, opened with the Leeds & Thirsk Railway in 1849 but was replaced a little to the south by the triangular junction station seen here when the NER opened their Otley Branch in 1865; it was re-named Arthington as a…