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1960. L to R: David Sutcliffe, Derek Sutcliffe (Lee Farm Eggs), Lesley Crossley (porter) , and Booking Office Clerk Stuart Haigh on the 'down' Leeds Platform. The station has been de-staffed since 1985 and the Grade ll station building is disused and…

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1965. Booking clerk David Sutcliffe and porter Charlie Green with east bound train approaching. At the time the station staff consisted of the Station Master and his clerk, three Booking Office clerks and three porters. It was fully de-staffed in…

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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…

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LYRS 8556 - The West Signal Box and 'up' platform looking west. All the buildings seen here, the sidings and the signal are all now long gone. Both platforms are now provided with bus-stop shelters.

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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.

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LYRS 6061 - 1963. Buildings on Down side looking eastwards towards the sorting sidings beyond the signal box. The sidings and box have gone and the station has been unstaffed since 1985 and the unusual three storey Grade II listed station building…

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LYRS 6056 - 1963. General view of the 'Down' platform, building and canopy looking west. The station was de-staffed in 1985 and the Grade II listed building is now disused. The platforms have been extended eastwards and provided with bus-stop…

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LYRS 4577 - 1964. General view of the platforms, buildings and canopy looking west. The buildings on the left have all now been demolished as have the signals in the distance and the siding on the right. The station has been unstaffed since 1985.

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1960. Eastbound passenger train hauled by a former LMS Stanier Class 'Black 5' approaching the 'down' platform. Both platforms seen here extended over the viaduct.

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Mytholmroyd Station around 100 years ago: but the new buildings failed to impress critics. St Michael’s Church, top left, remains but much else has since disappeared including parts of the station and the signal box. The rear of the 'up' Manchester…

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LYRS 6062 - 1963.The 'up' platform was accessed by a covered walk way from the first floor of the three storey station building on the 'down' platform and under the viaduct before climbing to the 'up' platform seen here.

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ALC00431. Date unknown but the land in the foreground not yet levelled for the construction of the railway siding in 1919. Centre right

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LYRS 6026 - 1967. Station frontage and approach road with cobbles covered by tarmac. the building on the right including the Station Master's house has been demolished.

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The 13 stone arch Lydgate, or Nott Wood Viaduct on the 1849 Todmorden to Burnley 'Copy Pit' line.

The viaduct towers over the village, once a bustling, densely-populated area centred around the cotton mills at Robinwood and Lineholme. Old code No.…

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A L&YR Manchester to Harrogate Express passing over the water troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.

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Goods train hauled tender first over the water troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.

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Former L&YR loco on a passenger train takes up water on the troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.

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On the left the small Booking Office looking here decidedly closed. On the right the timber passenger facilities on the up platform. The steps connecting the two platforms can just be made out from the the down platform at the end of the Booking…

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LYRS6089. 1963. Disused horse drawn dray belonging to F&H Sutcliffe of Wood Top, Hebden Bridge in the station yard which by then was closed.

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LYRS 6092 - 1963. Gas lamp outside the Booking Office looking down Station Road a year after the station had closed.

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LYRS 2762 - About 1900 with a ‘permanent way ganger’ on the track. The Manchester ‘up’ platform with its timber buildings was accessed by a footbridge from the Leeds ‘down’ platform and it continued under the road bridge at the top of Station Road. …

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LYRS6084. 1963. The now demolished coal drops at the top of Station Road following closure of the station.
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