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Eastwood Station - LYR00232
LYRS 2680 - 1880s. Station staff and maintenance ganger's at the station. The station half way between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden was opened by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in December 1840. The valley is so narrow that the track had to be built…
Eastwood Station 1963 - LYR00233
LYRS 6034 - General view from above station looking north east towards Hebden Bridge. The passenger station had closed 12 years earlier and goods facilities were to be shortly withdrawn when this photo was taken in August 1963.
The station half way…
The station half way…
Eastwood Station and Signal Box - LYR00236
LYRS 8407 - Mid-1960s- The Station Buildings, Level Crossing and the line looking towards Hebden Bridge. The Signal Box had controlled the crossing gates and also a goods siding and the siding over the coal drops. All the buildings have been…
Eastwood Station Buildings - LYR00237
LYRS 8410 - 1967. The disused and derelict station buildings on the 'down' line looking towards Todmorden. The passenger station had closed in 1951 and goods and coal facilities had been withdrawn in 1964. The buildings built into the hillside…
Eastwood Station Level Crossing - LYR00235
LYRS8406. - The Level Crossing and derelict Station Buildings several years after the passenger station had closed in 1951. The buildings seen here were built into the hillside behind. The crossing was accessed by a steep double sided ramp from the…
Elland Station - LYR00303
The first station at Elland on the Manchester & Leeds Railway opened in March 1841 close to the tunnel east portal but was replaced in 1865 by the one seen here. A third island platform station was built in 1894. The station and goods yard closed in…
Elland Station during demolition. - LYR00304
LYRS 2685 - The remains of Elland Station in about 1964. The first station opened near the tunnel in 1841 but this, the third station, with its island platform dated from 1894. The station and goods yard closed in 1962 and the station warehouse on…
Goods Train between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Bridge - LYR00182
LYRS 1442 - Hughes 0-8-0 Number 1357 heading a goods train between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel. To the right of the funnel, St Walburga's Catholic Church on Burnley Road is just visible.
Greetland Station - LYR00152
LYRS 6131 - Greetland Station - Coal Drops close-up 1963.
Greetland Station Coal Drops - LYR00153
LYRS 6132 - Greetland Station - Coal Drops 1963.
Greetland Station Coal Drops. - LYR00154
LYRS 6130 - Greetland Station - Coal Drops 1963.
Halifax - Panorama of Station & Town - LYR00164
LYRS 2691 - An extract from an 1873 lithograph giving a rare view of the 1855 Station before it was extensively enlarged and modified in the mid-1880s. Access to the Station was by a curving carriage drive which is just discernible here turning down…
Halifax Dean Clough. - LYR00178
LYRS 2317 - John Crossley & Sons No 42 - part of 7-plank wagon in the private siding at North Bridge. The sidings have gone and the vast Dean Clough complex no longer manufactures carpets but is now in mixed commercial usage. longer
Halifax High Level Railway - St Paul's - LYR00180
LYRS 3462n - C.1927. Halifax St Paul's Coal Depot - general view of depot including track, wagons and buildings. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known…
Halifax High Level Railway. - LYR00179
LYRS 3572 - Wheatley Viaduct, tunnel & goods yard in a panoramic view. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known as St Pauls on Parkinson Lane near King…
Halifax North Bridge Station - LYR00176
LYRS 3831b - General view of station, unusual signal box and goods yard looking south. The station opened for goods traffic in 1874 when the line to Holmfield was constructed and for passengers in 1880 and closed to them in 1955 when the Queensbury…
Halifax North Bridge. - LYR00177
LYRS 4266 - 1930. General view of station platforms and canopies and the unusual signal box looking south with the goods yard beyond. The station opened for goods traffic in 1874 when the line to Holmfield was constructed and for passengers in 1880…
Halifax Station - Holdsworth Bridge Signal Box. - LYR00173
LYRS 4913 - Holdsworth Bridge Signal Box (door gable only) and general view eastwards towards Halifax station. Beyond the Box one of the L&YR goods sheds near the site of the early Shaw Syke Station. The goods depot was finally closed in 1981 and the…
Halifax Station - L&YR Platforms. - LYR00165
LYRS 2698 - general view of the L&YR Platforms to the rear of the Station Building looking the in 'Down 'Leeds direction. On the right is Platform 1 and to the right of that the 'down' loop now long lifted. To the left is Platform 3 now used in…
Halifax Station 1930. - LYR00168
The former GNR Platforms 4, 5 and 6 to the front of the 1855 Italian style station building. These platforms were built in 1884/6 when the station was substantially enlarged to accommodate increased passenger and freight traffic including the new…
Halifax Station 1963. - LYR00167
LYRS 6409 - general view of L&YR platform and canopies to the rear of the station buildings looking in the Leeds direction. To the right of Platform 1 a train on the now lifted 'down' loop. Only the island platforms remain in railway use with the…
Halifax Station Aerial View - LYR00175
LYRS2700. Date unknown but probably about 1970. The connections to the GNR platforms to the station front have gone as has the Platform 3 line to the rear but the track to North Bridge is still there. The only railway activity today centres on the…
Halifax Station Approach - LYR00166
LYRS 4322 -Station approach and frontage 1910. With the construction of the GNR platforms and lines to the front of the 1855 Station Building in the mid 1880s a new large entrance and facilities building was built on a higher level accessed by the…
Halifax Station Approach. - LYR00161
LYRS 2692 - Halifax Station approach. To the right the top of the Italian style station building which opened in 1855 and to the front of that the canopies on the GNR platforms. Two platforms behind the building, still with canopies, remain in use. …
Halifax Station Approach. - LYR00162
LYRS 2695 - Halifax Station Approach - general view. With the construction of the GNR platforms and lines to the front of the 1855 Station Building in the 1880s a new large entrance and facilities building was built on a higher level accessed by the…