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Greetland Station, 29th October 1962. - NGH00118
Looking from the down platform obliquely up the line in the Sowerby Bridge direction. Off the up line carriages stored on a siding and between the signal gantries on the right the junction with the Halifax Branch. The station had closed the previous…
Greetland Station, Nr. Halifax - DNT00118
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…
Greetland Station. - NGH00115
Viewed looking up the line probably in October 1962 just over a month after closure. The footbridge connected the two platforms with the small Booking Office, off the photo far right, as well as with one another. Between the two signal gantries is…
Greetland Station. - NGH00116
Looking across to the passenger shelter on the up platform probably in October 1962. Centre right carriages stored on a siding and far left a section of steps to the footbridge which connected the platforms with one another and with the Booking…
Greetland Station. - NGH00117
Former LMS Fowler 2-6-4T number 42384 steams through the station which had closed in September 1962 on the down line probably in October 1962 having just rolled over the junction with the Halifax Branch visible centre right. The loco was taken out of…
Greetland Station. - NGH00119
The down platform buildings following closure of the station in September 1962. Apart from the signal box seen here which survived until 2009 the station was demolished in 1965.
The Second World War signal box was built by the LMS in 1941…
The Second World War signal box was built by the LMS in 1941…
Greetland Station. - NGH00122
Probably after the station’s closure in September 1962. Viewed looking down the line and on the right part of the up platform and behind it carriages in a siding. Beyond the carriages is the disconnected junction and track bed of the Stainland Branch…
Halifax Station High Level Access Bridge - DNT00248
The high level access was built in the mid-1880s when the station was considerably enlarged including sidings, lines and platforms to the front of the station now, as seen here, car parking and access road to Eureka Children’s Museum. To the right a…
Halifax - DNT00244
The viaduct from the station to Beacon Hill Tunnel on the Bradford/Leeds line and just off the image to the right the preserved coal drops. Centre right the lighter stone work covers the abutment to the former viaduct that carried the line to North…
Halifax - Panorama of Station & Town - LYR00164
LYRS 2691 - An extract from an 1873 lithograph giving a rare view of the 1855 Station before it was extensively enlarged and modified in the mid-1880s. Access to the Station was by a curving carriage drive which is just discernible here turning down…
Halifax c.1909 - DNT00237
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.
Halifax c.1920 - DNT00238
View from Beacon Hill with the railway goods and coal yard in the centre.
Photo David N Taylor Collection.
Photo David N Taylor Collection.
Halifax Coal Drops - DNT00245
The site of the coal yard above and to the right of the drops is now the car park for Eureka Children’s Museum.
Halifax Dean Clough. - LYR00178
LYRS 2317 - John Crossley & Sons No 42 - part of 7-plank wagon in the private siding at North Bridge. The sidings have gone and the vast Dean Clough complex no longer manufactures carpets but is now in mixed commercial usage. longer
Halifax from Beacon Hill. - JCA00315
Photo taken from above the top of the south portal of Beacon Hill Tunnel Too grainy to make out much detail but the GNR platforms to the front of the station building do seem to be there but difficult to make out if the Queensbury Line is.
Halifax High Level Railway - St Paul's - LYR00180
LYRS 3462n - C.1927. Halifax St Paul's Coal Depot - general view of depot including track, wagons and buildings. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known…
Halifax High Level Railway. - LYR00179
LYRS 3572 - Wheatley Viaduct, tunnel & goods yard in a panoramic view. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known as St Pauls on Parkinson Lane near King…
Halifax North Bridge Station - LYR00176
LYRS 3831b - General view of station, unusual signal box and goods yard looking south. The station opened for goods traffic in 1874 when the line to Holmfield was constructed and for passengers in 1880 and closed to them in 1955 when the Queensbury…
Halifax North Bridge. - LYR00177
LYRS 4266 - 1930. General view of station platforms and canopies and the unusual signal box looking south with the goods yard beyond. The station opened for goods traffic in 1874 when the line to Holmfield was constructed and for passengers in 1880…
Halifax Station - Holdsworth Bridge Signal Box. - LYR00173
LYRS 4913 - Holdsworth Bridge Signal Box (door gable only) and general view eastwards towards Halifax station. Beyond the Box one of the L&YR goods sheds near the site of the early Shaw Syke Station. The goods depot was finally closed in 1981 and the…
Halifax Station - DNT00247
View looking north east from the station approach road and bridge. On the right the south west portal of Beacon Hill Tunnel and on the left part of the former coal yard now car park for Eureka Children’s Museum. The trees at the far end of the car…
Halifax Station - L&YR Platforms. - LYR00165
LYRS 2698 - general view of the L&YR Platforms to the rear of the Station Building looking the in 'Down 'Leeds direction. On the right is Platform 1 and to the right of that the 'down' loop now long lifted. To the left is Platform 3 now used in…
Halifax Station 1863 - DNT00234
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…
Halifax Station 1930. - LYR00168
The former GNR Platforms 4, 5 and 6 to the front of the 1855 Italian style station building. These platforms were built in 1884/6 when the station was substantially enlarged to accommodate increased passenger and freight traffic including the new…
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…