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Sowerby Bridge Station - Rishworth Branch. - LYR00113
LYRS 0657a - Hughes 0-4-0RM No 11 at Sowerby Bridge. The branch line from Sowerby Bridge to Ripponden opened in 1878 and on to Rishworth in 1881. The original intention had been to tunnel under Blackstone Edge and re-join the Manchester line near…
Sowerby Bridge Station - Grain Warehouse. - LYR00134
LYRS 8623 - Sowerby Bridge Station 1967 - Grain Warehouse and Ground Frame Box (front & door gable). The warehouse with its own siding belonged to the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) who had a large flour mill adjacent to it. The mill was badly…
Sowerby Bridge Station - Forecourt c1900. - LYR00124
LYRS 4130 - Horse-drawn Parcels Delivery Van No 120, 2-wheel, & horse-drawn Cab in front of Sowerby Bridge Station.
The imposing Tudor style station building looked down Station Road but was demolished following fire damage in 1978 although the…
The imposing Tudor style station building looked down Station Road but was demolished following fire damage in 1978 although the…
Sowerby Bridge Station - Coal Sidings - LYR00135
LYRS 5057 - 1956. Coal Sidings & Ground Frame Box (front & non-door gable). The coal sidings with 'drops' beneath were west of the station off the 'up' line.
Sowerby Bridge Station - Coal Drops. - LYR00136
LYRS 8625 - Coal drops in 1967. The coal drops seen here with wagons on the coal siding above are west of the station off the 'up' line. Dating from about 1875 coal was 'dropped' from railway wagons on the sidings down the shoots into road wagons…
Sowerby Bridge Station - Grain Warehouse. - LYR00140
LYRS 4986 - River Bridge Ground Frame Box (front & door gable) with the CWS Grain Warehouse. The warehouse with its own siding belonged to the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) who had a large flour mill adjacent to it. The mill was badly damaged…
Sowerby Bridge Panorama. - LYR00120
LYRS 2783n - Sowerby Bridge - panorama of town with the station in the foreground. This station was built in the late 1870s when the branch to Ripponden was opened. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with canopies and a large imposing…
Sowerby Bridge General View. - LYR00121
LYRS 2786 - Sowerby Bridge - general view of the town looking east across the station & coal yard and drops.
This station was built in the late 1870s when the branch to Ripponden was opened. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with…
This station was built in the late 1870s when the branch to Ripponden was opened. There were six platforms, now reduced to two, all with…
Sowerby Bridge First Railway Station 1856 - LYR00118
LYRS 2781 - Sowerby Bridge - old station. The first station at Sowerby Bridge opened in October 1840 with the opening of the Manchester & Leeds Railway between Hebden bridge and Normanton. It was situated between Sowerby Tunnel and Rochdale Road and…
Sowerby Bridge - Rishworth Branch. - LYR00114
LYRS 0663 - Railmotor No 8 on Ripponden Branch at Sowerby Bridge. The branch line from Sowerby Bridge to Ripponden opened in 1878 and on to Rishworth in 1881. The original intention had been to tunnel under Blackstone Edge and re-join the Manchester…
Sowerby Bridge - Panorama of Rail Track. - LYR00131
LYRS 3500 - Sowerby Bridge - panorama of trackwork. Note the unusual signals hanging from the gantry. The Goods Yards and Sidings were all lifted and the locomotive depot demolished in 1965 although the base of the water tower and coaling stage has…
Sowerby Bridge - LYR00119
LYRS 3501 - Sowerby Bridge - view in town before widening of the railway bridge for the new station c1870. The Town Hall tower visible above the bridge.
Sowerby Bridge - Goods Yard and Locomotive Depot. - LYR00122
LYRS 2777n -1937. Sowerby Bridge - general view of track formation, loco depot, Goods Yard and West Signal Box taken from the top of Sowerby Tunnel.
Sowerby Bridge was the main operating centre for the Upper Calder Valley with a large engine and…
Sowerby Bridge was the main operating centre for the Upper Calder Valley with a large engine and…
Smithy Bridge Station 1950. - LYR00297
TMP 0226 - Although the Manchester & Leeds Railway opened throughout in 1841 a station wasn't built at Smithy Bridge until 1868. The station was closed in 1960 and the buildings and platforms demolished but a new station was opened in 1985 but with a…
Smithy Bridge Signal Box 1965. - LYR00298
LYRS 6694 - The front and non-door gable of the Box.
Site of L&YR Goods Depot - DNT00261
On the south side of Water Lane the depot consisted of two sizeable Goods Sheds and sidings; goods facilities were finally fully withdrawn in 1981. The original 1844 terminus station which became the Goods Office early 1850s was situate at the far…
Site of Eastwood Station in May 2013 - DNT00101
The station opened here when the section of the Manchester and Leeds Railway between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge was inaugurated in December 1840. The station closed in 1951 but the coal drops remained in use until the mid-1960s.
Photo David N…
Photo David N…
Shipley & Windhill Station - DNT00224
The station, which had been known as Shipley Bridge Street, was the terminus of a loop line built by the GNR from Laisterdyke opening in 1875 with intermediate stations at Eccleshill, Idle and Thackley The station closed to passengers in 1931 and to…
Scholes Station, Nr. Leeds - DNT00148
The first station on the NER Wetherby line after it branched off the Leeds-York/Selby line at Cross Gates but it was nearly ¾ mile from the village of that name. It opened at the same time as the line in 1876 and closed with the line in 1964. It’s…
Saltaire Station - DNT00178
The Leeds & Bradford Extension Railway between Shipley and Colne opened over its whole length in 1848 but a station wasn’t opened by the MR at Saltaire until 1856. This station was closed in 1965 and the buildings demolished in 1970. In 1984 a new…
Saddleworth Station. LNWR Huddersfield – Manchester Line - DNT00285
One of several stations in the civil parish of Saddleworth which, although on the western slopes of the South Pennines, was in the West Riding of Yorkshire up until local government re-organisation in 1974 when it passed to Greater Manchester.
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River Aire under Leeds Station 2006 - DNT00142
The River Aire running under Leeds Station through the ’Dark Arches’, a Victorian labyrinth of vaults and arches which support the station.
Rishworth Station. - LYR00102
LYRS 2590. Rishworth Station - general view along platform with Railmotor. The branch line from Sowerby Bridge to Ripponden opened in 1878 and on to Rishworth in 1881. The original intention had been to tunnel under Blackstone Edge and re-join the…
Rishworth Station. - LYR00101
LYRS 0654. Hughes 0-4-0RM No 3 at Rishworth. The branch line from Sowerby Bridge to Ripponden opened in 1878 and on to Rishworth in 1881. The original intention had been to tunnel under Blackstone Edge and re-join the Manchester line near Smithy…