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http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC00318.jpg
About to enter Horsfall Tunnel. Scanned from photograph

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC00329.jpg
March 1972
It is thought that the hole in the road incident was caused by the collapse of the goit. They poured 5 tons of concrete in the hole, thinking the water was coming off the hillside. The concrete was washed away overnight. After the hole was…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC00330.jpg
This photo can be dated after 1965 (when the gallows signals outside Millwood tunnel were removed) but before 1973, when the signal box was demolished.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DMC00377.jpg
Photograph taken in March 1969.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00178.jpg
Looking towards Halifax. Note the large water tank on the right behind the engine. This supplied water for the engines via a pipe under the track to a hose near the signal box.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00179.jpg
Looking up the line towards Todmorden. The large goods warehouse, demolished 1969, on right with an endless belt hoist, originally there had been three. A water turret can be seen on the left.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00348.jpg
Mytholmroyd Methodist chapel is near the centre of the picture.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00360.jpg
The wagon is dressed up for the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in May 1935.

Percy Pollard, in flat cap, was the steam engine tenter. The wagon would be loaded with calico made at 'Old Charlie's Crabtree's'

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00417.jpg
Originally Maude's, later Walkleys. Before the railway line was built the track across the field to the right hand side of this picture was the road to the hamlet of Stubb. The road disappearing off to the right towards the bottom of the picture…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DEP00433.jpg
Used to stop rail wagons at the small turntable.
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