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Sowerby Bridge Station Building 1963. - LYR00129
LYRS 6095 - 1963. Sowerby Bridge Station Building and Concourse all in an unkept and dilapidated condition. The platform canopies have gone and replaced by the concrete structures we see today. The main building and concourse were hastily demolished…
Sowerby Bridge Station 1963. - LYR00130
LYRS 6096 - 1963. Sowerby Bridge Station Building and Concourse in poor condition. The platform canopies have gone and replaced by the concrete structures we see today. The main building and concourse were hastily demolished following fire damage in…
Sowerby Bridge Station Frontage and Approach - LYR00132
LYRS 6106 - Sowerby Bridge Station 1963 - frontage and approach looking down Station Road. The station with its imposing Tudor style building replaced an earlier station near Sowerby Tunnel and was built in the late 1870s when the Rishworth Branch…
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…
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…
Hebden Bridge Station 1963. - LYR00216
LYRS 6049 -- general view of the 'Down' platform and buildings in 1963 with a collection of porters' barrows and the now gone platform clock. The goods lift enclosure is visible on platform behind the barrows.
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 The passenger station had closed 12 years earlier and goods facilities were to be shortly withdrawn when this photo was taken in August 1963.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…
Todmorden Triangle 1963. - LYR00239
LYRS6018. A confusing photo! The tracks in the centre curving off to the right form the Stansfield or Todmorden Curve heading to Stansfield Hall Junction on the 'Copy Pit' line to Burnley. The line in the foreground is the spur from Hall Royd…
Todmorden Station 1967 - LYR00260
LYRS 6029 - Looking north east from the 'up' platform across to the 'down' platform before the buildings on the 'down' platform and all canopies had been demolished.
Todmorden - Gauxholme Bridge 1965 - LYR00283
LYRS 6010 - The handsome cast iron skew bridge over the Rochdale Canal near Todmorden with castellated Gothic abutments, viewed from the hillside. When built in 1839/40 this was one of the first bow-string bridges in the country.
Todmorden - Gauxholme 1965 - LYR00284
LYRS 6011 - The handsome cast iron skew bridge over the Rochdale Canal near Todmorden with castellated Gothic abutments, viewed from the hillside. When built in 1839/40 this was one of the first bow-string bridges in the country.
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 and Signal Box 1965. - LYR00290
LYRS 6681 - The 'up' platform, buildings and signal box looking north east. All the buildings have now been demolished and the track to the right lifted. The island platform was accessed by a subway.
Littleborough Station - 'Down' platform 1965. - LYR00292
LYRS 6685 - The building on the 'down' Leeds Platform but shorn of its canopy. The building is no longer in use for rail users.
Littleborough Station - 'Down' platform and Goods Shed 1965. - LYR00293
LYRS 6687 - The Leeds 'down' platform and the Goods Shed looking west. The Shed has been demolished and the platform building no longer used br rail users.
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…
Littleborough Station - Goods Shed 1965. - LYR00295
LYRS 6684 - The sidings have been recently lifted and the shed in a poor state of repair pending demolition.
Smithy Bridge Signal Box 1965. - LYR00298
LYRS 6694 - The front and non-door gable of the Box.
Smithy Bridge Signal Box 1965. - LYR00299
LYRS 6695 - The rear & non-door gable with the level crossing and subway entrance.
Eastwood c.1960 - ALC00451
Pair of B1Class locos double heading a westbound passenger train.
Hebden Bridge, Station Road c.1960 - ALC00454
Looking up towards the station. The large station warehouse is still there at the top but Local Authority housing not yet built on the land between Palace House Road and the line.
Heptonstall Parish Church, St Thomas the Apostle, c1960. - ALC02000
Opened in 1854 the 'new' church was dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle. This photo shows it before the church was re-ordered. Work had begun on re-ordering the church in 1960 and was completed in 1964.