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The track to left of train is the site of the infamous curve. It was the cause of many accidents over the years including a serious derailment in 1912 with several casualities including three fatalities. The detached house in the foreground is called…

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1960. Eastbound passenger train hauled by a former LMS Stanier Class 'Black 5' approaching the 'down' platform. Both platforms seen here extended over the viaduct.

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1965. Booking clerk David Sutcliffe and porter Charlie Green with east bound train approaching. At the time the station staff consisted of the Station Master and his clerk, three Booking Office clerks and three porters. It was fully de-staffed in…

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Enlarged extract from one of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. Seen here the small station building on the 'Leeds line' is almost hidden…

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One of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. To the left of the station the trestle bridge carrying the station road over the Calder and left…

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An east bound train leaving the town. Date unknown but before the track was quadrupled in 1906. Victoria Mill can be seen above the smoke.

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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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In the foreground the three arch viaduct on the original M&LR Calder Valley Main Line. Behind it the impressive 23 arch viaduct completed 1851 on the WRU line from Milner Royd Junction up to Dryclough Junction south of Halifax Station.

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L&YR passenger train at the station. The line here opened in 1852 on completion of the massive Copley Viaduct and the station was opened in 1856 and closed 1931.

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Westbound train between Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge which section of track had been quadrupled in 1906.

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Eastbound train between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Bridge passing on the right the rear of Luddendenfoot Congregational Church.
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