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Beeton, Todmorden. - RDA00250
The long low building along the canal bank is Beeton Rope Works. Above left the western portal of Horsfall Tunnel.
Hallroyd, Todmorden. - RDA00248
Hallroyd east of Todmorden town centre is where the Burnley line divides from the Manchester and Leeds line. The signal box and signals, but not the junction, seen here.
Frostholme Mill, Cornholme, Todmorden. - RDA00238
The mill on Burnley Road was originally a cotton mill built in 1861 with subsequent extensions. Now occupied by furniture manufacturers.
Portsmouth, Todmorden. - RDA00227
Looking up the valley. Burnley Road from Todmorden passing under the railway bridge on the right. To the left a railway siding.
Portsmouth, Todmorden. - RDA00225
Portsmouth looking down the valley.
Portsmouth, Todmorden. - RDA00224
Portsmouth looking up towards Burnley. Just discernible right of centre the small station on the Todmorden- Burnley 'Copy Pit' line, closed 1958.
Vale, Cornholme, Todmorden. - RDA00223
Vale to the east of Cornholme.
Cornholme and Station, Todmorden - RDA00222
Looking up the valley over the small mill town towards Burnley with the station more or less in the centre. The station had opened in 1878 and closed in 1938. The chimney to the left of the big chimney was for Law Mill.
Lydgate, Todmorden. - RDA00220
Looking up Burnley Road to Knott Wood Viaduct on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line. To the left the top storeys of Robinwood Mill.
Lydgate, Todmorden - RDA00216
Nott Wood Viaduct in the centre with Robinwood Mill to its right. To the right of the viaduct the former primary school now the Robinwood Activity Centre.
Lydgate, Todmorden. - RDA00215
The 13 arch Nott Wood Viaduct, Lydgate, on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line, completed 1849. Robinwood Mill on the left.
Portsmouth Station. - RDA00214
The station on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line opened in 1849 and closed in 1958. Seem here looking up the line towards Burnley.
Steam Train Todmorden Area. - RDA00213
Can you locate? Originally thought to be the road overbridge at Copy Pit looking North West and the second bridge seen through the arch would be commensurate with that although the two bridges were further apart than they appear to be here. Further…
Cornholme Station - RDA00179
The station on the 'Copy Pit Line' from Todmorden to Burnley opened in 1878 some 30 years after the line and the station closed in 1938.
The 'Copy Pit' Line - Holme Station. - RDA00178
The station was opened at the same time as the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway's line between Todmorden and Burnley in 1849. It was closed in 1930.
The 'Copy Pit' Line - Chatham Bridge. - RDA00177
The bridge, seen here looking SE in the Todmorden direction, is about quarter of a mile up from the former Portsmouth station and carries a lane from the A646 up to a farm. The loop line on the left has now been lifted.
The 'Copy Pit' Cliviger. - RDA00176
The small colliery at the summit of the steeply graded Todmorden-Burnley line after which it is named. Seen here looking SE towards Todmorden the main road, now the A646, is the other side of the wall centre left. The bridge on the right carried a…
The 'Copy Pit', Cliviger - RDA00175
The small colliery at the summit of the Todmorden-Burnley line after which it is named. The steeply graded line was opened by the Lancashire Railway in 1849. Seen here looking NW towards Burnley. On the right people are walking on the…
Mytholmroyd, c1900 - RDA00171
View over the town from the north hillside. Scout Rocks are on the left, with Scout Road School below.
Todmorden from Shoebroad - RDA00162
Looking down on the town, with the Unitarian Church on the left and the gable of the Town Hall nearly centre.
Mytholmroyd from Daisy Bank. - RDA00160
View over the town from the south west. A train can be seen pulling away from the station towards Hebden Bridge.
Floods at Patmos, Todmorden - RDA00159
Looking down Burnley Road towards the town centre viaduct. Date unknown.
Charlestown, c1920 - RDA00153
Callis Mill and dam looking down the valley. The mill was partially demolished in the 1970s. For further information see: www.hebdenbridgehistory.org.uk/charlestown/mills.
Cornholme - Wilson's Bobbin Mill. - RDA00150
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 'Copy Pit' Line between Todmorden and Burnley passing Wilson’s ‘bobbin mill'.
"Wilson's Bobbin Mill once dominated the village of Cornholme. The vast four-storey building, with its eye-catching clock bridge…
"Wilson's Bobbin Mill once dominated the village of Cornholme. The vast four-storey building, with its eye-catching clock bridge…
Todmorden - Stansfield Hall Railway Accident 1904. - RDA00147
Accident at Stansfield Hall on 5th December 1904. Wagons on a heavy goods train broke loose coming down from Copy Pit to Portsmouth and the train divided into two parts. When the engines stopped at Stansfield Hall signals the detached wagons…