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Brighouse Station - DNT00120
A very derelict looking Brighouse Station, date unknown. The first station here opened with the line in October 1840 and was to the east of Huddersfield Road and at the time was called 'Brighouse and Bradford Station' as there as then no railway to…
Elland Station - DNT00119
The first station at Elland opened in October 1840 at the same time as the section of the M&LR between Hebden Bridge and Normanton and was immediately to the east of Elland Tunnel. It was rebuilt a little to the east in 1865 and then again in 1894 as…
Greetland Station, Nr. Halifax - DNT00118
The station on the M&LR’s Calder Valley Main Line was originally known as North Dean. It was opened in July 1844 on completion of the M&LR’s Halifax Branch which ran from a junction at North Dean up to a terminus station at Shaw Syke, south of…
Sowerby Bridge Station c.1900 - DNT00117
Station frontage looking down Station Road. The station with its imposing Tudor style building replaced an earlier station near Sowerby Tunnel and was built in the late 1870s when the Rishworth Branch was constructed. It was hastily demolished…
Mytholmroyd Station c. 1910 - DNT00116
Repairing the fence on the unusual viaduct platform. The station is well above the valley floor resulting in the platforms running along the length of the viaduct but they also overhung it supported by massive brackets. The now disused station…
Hebden Bridge Station Road & Car Park 2013 - DNT00114
HCC00492. Same view as DTA00101.
Photo David N.Taylor Collection
Photo David N.Taylor Collection
Hebden Bridge Station Frontage - DNT00113
The station frontage before landscaping and pedestrianisation in 1994. The near end building is the long disused Parcels Office which was converted in to a Cafe in 1996.
Hebden Bridge Station April 1978 - DNT00112
The gas lamps which were there on a 1973 photo have been replaced with fluorescent tubes and the platform has also been raised since then. The signage in BR's standard colours, another change since 1973, a reverse of the original and current white…
Hebden Bridge Station c.1970 - DNT00111
Taken sometime betwen 1966 and 1973; a 1966 photo shows timber sleepers but here they are concrete and the station clock seen behind the second pillar had been removed by the time of a 1973 photo. The small steps on the platform were to assist…
Hebden Bridge Station 1950s/60s - DNT00110
Post nationalisation in 1948 looking across to the 'up' Manchester platform. On the 'down' platform there are platform staff and porters' barrows. A goods or engineers train makes up steam by the station warehouse alongside a maintenance gang.
Hebden Bridge Station Car Park - DNT00106
The Station Car Park at the top of Station Road in 2013. This had been the site of the large two bay Station Warehouse which was demolished in 1969 following serious fire damage. The formal landscaped car park was constructed in 1994.
Site of Eastwood Station in May 2013 - DNT00101
The station opened here when the section of the Manchester and Leeds Railway between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge was inaugurated in December 1840. The station closed in 1951 but the coal drops remained in use until the mid-1960s.
Photo David N…
Photo David N…
Halifax Station - DPC00593
This view of the approach to the station with its cobbled road remains much the same, but the frontage is of a more modern design today.
Halifax Station - DPC00591
View of the approach to the station with its cobbled. The frontage has been remodelled. This photograph is on a postcard with a mark of 1917. The houses clinging to the Southowram hillside have mostly gone.
The Station, Sowerby Bridge - DPC00471
The frontage of this station was demolished and very little remains of this handsome structure. The building to the left is what is now the Jubilee Rooms refreshment venue. The station platforms were remodelled in the the mid 20th C and the goods…
Halifax Railway Station - DPC00363
This view is remarkably unchanged today apart from the overhead tramlines and the horse-drawn vehicles, although the station has a modern front. The Southowram hillside can be seen behind the station. At one time the Mackintosh's sweet factory was…
Greetland Station Goods Shed & Yard, October 1962. - NGH00123
The shed was behind the station building and signal box on the down platform and separated from the main goods yard by the Halifax Branch. Rail access was from a westward facing junction off the down line. Following closure in September 1962 the…
Greetland Station. - NGH00122
Probably after the station’s closure in September 1962. Viewed looking down the line and on the right part of the up platform and behind it carriages in a siding. Beyond the carriages is the disconnected junction and track bed of the Stainland Branch…
Greetland Station - NGH00121
29th October 1962. Unknown locomotive passing through the station on the up line. Bottom left part of the down platform and junction with the Halifax line. To its right carriages stored on a siding.
Greetland Station Booking Office. - NGH00120
The small timber Booking Office on the station approach road was opposite the east end of the down platform which is off the photo here to the left. On the left are the steps up to the footbridge which connected the platforms and was the only…
Greetland Station. - NGH00119
The down platform buildings following closure of the station in September 1962. Apart from the signal box seen here which survived until 2009 the station was demolished in 1965.
The Second World War signal box was built by the LMS in 1941…
The Second World War signal box was built by the LMS in 1941…
Greetland Station, 29th October 1962. - NGH00118
Looking from the down platform obliquely up the line in the Sowerby Bridge direction. Off the up line carriages stored on a siding and between the signal gantries on the right the junction with the Halifax Branch. The station had closed the previous…
Greetland Station. - NGH00117
Former LMS Fowler 2-6-4T number 42384 steams through the station which had closed in September 1962 on the down line probably in October 1962 having just rolled over the junction with the Halifax Branch visible centre right. The loco was taken out of…