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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 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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The station is on a narrow embankment with the 'up', Manchester, platform buildings supported by stilts. The covered structure to the left of the building crossed under the viaduct to the main station building at first floor level. At the time this…

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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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Looking down on the town and station from the south hillside. This shows how the station platforms are above the valley floor built on an embankment. The single box and buildings on the 'up' Manchester platform are supported on stilts. All now…

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Morley Top, seen here pre-First World War, was on the Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway’s Gildersome Branch and extension which opened over its whole length between Laisterdyke and Ardsley in 1857 and was acquired by the GNR in 1865. The…

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On the line between Leeds and Huddersfield which was originally constructed by the Leeds, Dewsbury & Manchester Railway but acquired by the LNWR by the time it opened in 1848 with the station at Morley, then just Morley. The station de-staffed…

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Morly Low Station with excurtionists rushing to get on a LNWR Blackpool Special at Morley Feast. Towards the end of the 19th century it was common practice for railway companies to put on special trains for a town’s local holiday.

The word ‘Feast'…

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OK so it’s not Bradford but Morecambe did become known as ‘Bradford by the Sea’. The MR’s direct rail line between Bradford and Morecambe not only made it a favourite resort for trips and holidays for Bradford people but it got the name Bradford by…

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The original station here was built in 1846 by the Leeds & Bradford Railway which had been formed to connect the two towns by railway along the Aire Valley. The company was acquired by the MR in 1853 who rebuilt the station seen here and this in turn…

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When the line was increased from two to four tracks in the late 1880s there wasn’t room to expand alongside the existing double track west of Standedge Tunnels and instead a loop line was constructed between Diggle and Stalybridge stations.…

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The station seen here in in LMS days (1923-1948) opened in 1841 at the same time as the Leeds – Derby line of the North Midland Railway, later a constituent part of the MR. The station closed in 1957 having been re-named Methley North in 1950 to…

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The MR’s branch from their Aire Valley line at Apperley Junction to the Otley & Ilkley Joint Railway had opened in 1865 but the station at Menston wasn’t opened until August 1875. North East of the station at Menston Junction, where there had been a…

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The rather forlorn looking station in BR days. It is the site of the first railway station in Leeds opened by the Leeds & Selby Railway in 1834 although about a mile east of the city centre in an area described at the time as ‘one of the most…

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Marsden Station like other stations on the LNWR’s Huddersfield Manchester line along the Colne Valley opened with the line in 1849. It was enlarged in the mid-1890s when the line was increased from two to four tracks. It is seen here at an unknown…

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The first station out of Bradford on the Midland’s line towards Shipley it was opened in 1868 and closed nearly a hundred years later in 1965. Seen here on the right is the sizeable Manningham Motive Power Depot which closed in 1967 and then…

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The first station out of Bradford on the Midland’s line towards Shipley it was opened in 1868 and closed nearly a hundred years later in 1965.

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Opened by the LNWR in June 1884 it closed for passenger traffic in May 1969.

In 1929 a platform link was constructed with nearby Victoria Station creating Europe's longest platform at 2,238 feet (682 m).

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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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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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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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Station Road from the hillside. The goods yard was later extended over the open land. The main line is hidden from view at the bottom but the footbridge connecting the two platforms is just visible next to the Booking Office. The station closed in…

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An important Junction station in its day not least due the proximity of the vast Low Moor Iron Works. Whilst the junction on the Halifax - Bradford with the Spen Valley line opened in 1850 the station had opened a couple of years earlier. The…

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On the Halifax-Bradford line at its junction with the Spen Valley Line. The station opened in July 1848 the same time as the line between the junction and Bradford. As well as an important junction station it also served the Low Moor Ironworks which…
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