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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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Goods train hauled tender first over the water troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.

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Former L&YR loco on a passenger train takes up water on the troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.

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View from Beacon Hill with the railway goods and coal yard in the centre.

Photo David N Taylor Collection.

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View of the town from Beacon Hill with the railway goods and coal yard centre and the high level station approach and station centre left.

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The high level access road built in the mid-1880s when platforms and lines were constructed to the front of the original 1855 Italian style station building here on the right.

The station was operated jointly by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway…

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HCC00489. The high level approach road built in the mid-1880s when platforms and sidings were constructed to the front of the 1855 Italian style station building.

The station was operated jointly by the London & Lancashire Railway and the Great…

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The arrival of the Prince of Wales for the opening of the Town Hall in August 1863. A rare image of the 1855 station with the original curving carriage drive from opposite the bottom of Horton Strret to a central portico. When the station was…

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On the Halifax-Bradford line at its junction with the Spen Valley Line. The station opened in July 1848 the same time as the line between the junction and Bradford. As well as an important junction station it also served the Low Moor Ironworks which…

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Looking in the Halifax direction with the north portal of Bowling Tunnel all but hidden by smoke. The line in the centre continues to Bradford Exchange and the line going off to the left is the Bowling Curve to Laisterdyke where it joined the…

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Holbeck Low Level Station seen here and Holbeck High Level Station on the higher level line above it were built by separate railway companies and operated as separate stations up until nationalisation in 1948. The only external access was by the…

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Normanton Station was opened on 30th June 1840 by the North Midland Railway, later a constituent part of the Midland Railway, on its Leeds-Derby line and on the same day the York & North Midland Railway opened between Normanton and York and this was…

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The station was opened by the M&LR at the same time as the section of its line between Hebden Bridge and Normanton and was Wakefield’s only station until Westgate Station was opened in 1867. The station was rebuilt in 1854 and is seen here late 19th…

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The station was opened by the M&LR at the same time as the section of its line between Hebden Bridge and Normanton and was Wakefield’s only station until Westgate Station was opened in 1867. The station was rebuilt in 1854 and its frontage seen here…

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The station was opened by the L&YR on 1st January 1850 about a mile east of their Horbury & Ossett Station at the junction of their new Barnsley Branch with original M&LR line. The station closed in 1929 but was replaced by a new station on the main…

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The first station situated in Horbury Bridge opened with this section of the M&LR on 5th October 1840 and was named Horbury & Ossett. It was replaced in 1902 with the island platform station seen here, still in Horbury Bridge, and renamed Ossett &…

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A station opened here at the same time as this section of the M&LR on 5th October 1840 and was the station for Huddersfield, reputedly built for the Armytage family of Kirklees Hall. It was closed in 1950.

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A very derelict looking Brighouse Station, date unknown. The first station here opened with the line in October 1840 and was to the east of Huddersfield Road and at the time was called 'Brighouse and Bradford Station' as there as then no railway to…

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The first station at Elland opened in October 1840 at the same time as the section of the M&LR between Hebden Bridge and Normanton and was immediately to the east of Elland Tunnel. It was rebuilt a little to the east in 1865 and then again in 1894 as…

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The station on the M&LR’s Calder Valley Main Line was originally known as North Dean. It was opened in July 1844 on completion of the M&LR’s Halifax Branch which ran from a junction at North Dean up to a terminus station at Shaw Syke, south of…
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