LYRS 6064 - 1963.- Viaduct carrying the 'up' platform with its massive iron supports viewed from ground level. The viaduct platforms are no longer used and the overhang has been dismantled.
LYRS 2769 - Rear view of the 'up' platform Because the station was built on an embankment the buildings, including signal box, were supported on stilts. The 'up' platform was accessed by a covered walk way from the first floor of the three storey…
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
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…
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…
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.