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Halifax Station Approach - GEE00103
The 1855 station was considerably enlarged in the mid-1880s with this high level approach road over the new lines and sidings. It was operated jointly by the L&YR and the GNR but each had their own platforms, refreshment facilities, waiting rooms and…
Halifax Station Approach - LYR00166
LYRS 4322 -Station approach and frontage 1910. With the construction of the GNR platforms and lines to the front of the 1855 Station Building in the mid 1880s a new large entrance and facilities building was built on a higher level accessed by the…
Halifax Station Approach. - LYR00161
LYRS 2692 - Halifax Station approach. To the right the top of the Italian style station building which opened in 1855 and to the front of that the canopies on the GNR platforms. Two platforms behind the building, still with canopies, remain in use. …
Halifax Station Approach. - LYR00162
LYRS 2695 - Halifax Station Approach - general view. With the construction of the GNR platforms and lines to the front of the 1855 Station Building in the 1880s a new large entrance and facilities building was built on a higher level accessed by the…
Halifax Station Approach. - LYR00163
LYRS 2696 - Halifax Station approach c.1920. To the left the L&YR Booking Office and to the right the GNR's.
With the construction of the GNR platforms and lines to the front of the 1855 Station Building in the 1880s a new large entrance and…
With the construction of the GNR platforms and lines to the front of the 1855 Station Building in the 1880s a new large entrance and…
Halifax Station Disused Steps - DNT00243
Remains of the steps down to the disused former Platform 3.
Halifax Station East Signal Box. - LYR00170
LYRS 4970 - Halifax East Junction Signal Box ('chimney' side & non-door gable) and parachute water tank. It is still situated at the east end of Platform 3, although that is no longer in use and the water tank has gone. The tracks going off to the…
Halifax Station from the South - DNT00252
On the left part of Eureka Children’s Museum but this and all the grassed area seen here had been lines and platforms built in the mid-1880s for use by the GNR. To the right is the handsome Italian style station building dating from 1855 but now used…
Halifax Station Goods Yard Signal Box. - LYR00172
LYRS 4910 - Halifax Goods Yard Signal Box (front & non-door gable). Centre right is the high level Station Approach bridge. Goods facilities were gradually withdrawn during the '60s and '70s and fully by 1981. The tracks and Box were dismantled and…
Halifax Station High Level Access Bridge - DNT00249
The newer stonework in the bridge parapet above the centre pillar blocks off what had been the top of steps down to the to the island Platforms 5 & 6 to the front of the station building.
Halifax Station West Signal Box. - LYR00171
LYRS 4908 - Halifax West Signal Box (front & door gable) with station platforms beyond and the high level Station Approach. Date unknown but late 1960s or early 1970s; the track to Platform 6 has been lifted and the Box would also shortly go.
Halifax Station. - LYR00160
LYRS 1024 - Aspinall 2-4-2T No 39 (possibly) and unidentified coach at Halifax. In the bottom right hand corner the island platform still in use today. The train is standing at Platform 3, now part of Eureka, and in front of it the rails going off…
Halifax Station. - LYR00169
LYRS 6403 - 1963. General view of Platform 4 including canopy & columns and the clock. The covered stairway went up the Booking Office. By the time this photo was taken the other two former GNR platforms to the station front had been closed and…
Halifax Station. Underside of the High Level Approach - DNT00240
The site of the former GNR lines and sidings running to the front of the station building.
Halifax. GNR Warehouse South elevation - DNT00254
The main line is just off the view to the right behind the bushes.
Halifax. Crests on Water Lane Overbridge - DNT00264
Unidentified crests on either side of the arch on the east face of the railway overbridge on Water Lane built 1848/9 when the Halifax Branch was extended from Shaw Syke near to the town centre and onto Bradford, opening in 1850.
Halifax. East face of overbridge on Water Lane - DNT00263
East face of the railway overbridge built 1848/9 when the Halifax Branch was extended from Shaw Syke near to the town centre and onto Bradford, opening in 1850. Still in use.
Halifax. GNR Warehouse West Elevation - DNT00253
The now disused warehouse a little to the south of the station with the site of former sidings now car parking for Eureka Children's Museum.
Halifax. Original Pedestrian Gateway to the Station - DNT00241
When the station was built in 1855 the main access was by a sweeping carriage drive from opposite the bottom of Horton Street but there was also this pedestrian access which was blocked up when lines and platforms to the front of the station were…
Halifax. Shaw Syke Goods Shed 01-04-2010 - DNT00257
The roof showing signs of sagging and the yard cleared for temporary council public car parking.
Halifax. Shaw Syke Goods Shed 27.03.2011 - DNT00258
Part of the roof collapsed and another part sagging.
Halifax. Shaw Syke Goods Shed 28.02.2013 - DNT00259
The roof collapsed in two places.
Halifax. Shaw Syke Goods Shed South West Elevation - DNT00256
The shed on the north side of Water Lane was built by the L&YR about the 1850s. The original terminus station on the south side of Water Lane became the Goods Office at the same time. Today (2017) it stands derelict.
Centre left is the disused…
Centre left is the disused…
Halifax. Shaw Syke Yard and GNR Warehouse - DNT00255
View looking across Shaw Syke goods yard down to the GNR warehouse. Taken in April 2010 just after the yard had been cleared for temporary council public car parking. The remains of rails just visible between the cobbles.
Halifax. Site of North Bridge Goods Station - DNT00251
By the mid-1860s Halifax Station was considered particularly inconvenient for goods traffic causing delays to the ever necessary delivery of coal and to relieve this bottleneck it was proposed removing mineral and general goods to a station at North…