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Charlestown Curve Rail Disaster - HLS01084
On 21 June 1912, the Manchester to Leeds express literally 'burst the rails asunder' on the already notorious Charlestown Curve between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden killing four people.'
Charlestown Train Crash - HLS01085
June 1912.
Charlestown Rail Crash. - HLS01087
June 1912.
Charlestown Curve Accident 1912. - ALC00463
21 June 1912. 'The Manchester to Leeds express literally burst the rails asunder' on the already notorious Charlestown Curve between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge killing four passengers and injuring many more. Seen here the wrecked carriages, the…
Charlestown Rail Disaster - ALC00616
21 June 1912. 'The Manchester to Leeds express literally burst the rails asunder' on the already notorious Charlestown Curve between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden killing four people. Postcard.
Charlestown Curve Rail Disaster 1912 - HCC00258
21 June 1912. 'The Manchester to Leeds express literally burst the rails asunder' on the already notorious Charlestown Curve between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden killing four people. Picture donated by Charlie Greenwood.
Charlestown Rail Disaster, 1912 - MCH00167
On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
L&YR Passenger Train. - JCA00311
Undated postcard. Taking up water at troughs at an unidentified location with triple or quadruple track. Can Anybody identify the location?
Lloyd Greenwood at Hebden Bridge Station - ALC04492
Lloyd Greenwood was born at Fairfield, Hebden Bridge. In 1938, he won a place at the Halifax Junior Technical School, now Calderdale College, and went on to become a clerk with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
He started work at the…
He started work at the…
Summit Tunnel 150 years Celebration, 1991 - DAH00206
Summit Tunnel is one of the world's oldest railway tunnels. It was constructed between 1838 and 1841 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company to provide a direct line between Leeds and Manchester. When built, Summit Tunnel was the longest railway…
Bridge Mills, Luddenden Foot - HPC00268
NAME: BRIDGE MILLS
LOCATION: Station Road, Luddenden Foot
REF: CD 146
GRID REF: 037 251
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Semi-used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: A small, three storey stone built mill cum…
LOCATION: Station Road, Luddenden Foot
REF: CD 146
GRID REF: 037 251
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Semi-used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: A small, three storey stone built mill cum…
Gauxholme and Dancroft Mills - HPC00374
NAME: GAUXHOLME CORN MILL
LOCATION: Gauxholme
REF: CD24
GRID REF: 929 232
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Semi-used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: From early 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Close to the confluence of Midgelden Clough with…
LOCATION: Gauxholme
REF: CD24
GRID REF: 929 232
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Semi-used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: From early 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Close to the confluence of Midgelden Clough with…
L&YR Motor Omnibus No. B-2085. - JCA00354
Milnes-Daimler chassis and body put on at Newton Heath.
1904 worked the Blundell Sands - Crosby and Thornton route and then later the Chorley - Bamber Bridge route as seen here.
Eventually converted to a lorry and worked until 1926.
1904 worked the Blundell Sands - Crosby and Thornton route and then later the Chorley - Bamber Bridge route as seen here.
Eventually converted to a lorry and worked until 1926.
Luddendenfoot Water Troughs. - JCA00305
A L&YR Manchester to Harrogate Express passing over the water troughs between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel.
Copley Tunnel. - JCA00308
L&YR train emerging from the tunnel.
L&YR Passenger Train, Mytholmroyd. - JCA00309
Westbound between Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge; the track here had been quadrupled in 1906.
Luddendenfoot Station. - JCA00327
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…
Weasel Hall Tunnel, Hebden Bridge - JCA00328
Looking down the line towards Hebden Bridge Station. Land for the line through Hebden Bridge was purchased from the Mytholm Estate of the Rev. Armytage Rhodes which included Weasel Hall on the site of the tunnel. Although the Hall was tenanted…
West Vale Station, Stainland Branch, Halifax. - JCA00348
The small intermediate station between Greetland on the Calder Valley Main Line and the Branch terminus at Holywell Green. Whilst the terminus station had only one platform West Vale has two both with stone buildings unlike some on the Main Line…
Greetland Goods Shed, Calder Valley Main Line. - JCA00349
Seen here sometime after closure of the station in September 1962.
