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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 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 Goods facilities were gradually withdrawn during the '60s and '70s and fully by 1981.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 - Holdsworth Bridge Signal Box. - LYR00173
LYRS 4913 - Holdsworth Bridge Signal Box (door gable only) and general view eastwards towards Halifax station. Beyond the Box one of the L&YR goods sheds near the site of the early Shaw Syke Station. The goods depot was finally closed in 1981 and the…
Halifax Station - Goods building. - LYR00174
LYRS 2699 - Halifax had three L&YR goods sheds on two sites at Shaw Syke, two demolished and the third in a dire and near derelict condition for all that it is Grade ll Listed. Unfortunately it's not clear which this one is but most likely one of the…
Halifax Station Aerial View - LYR00175
LYRS2700. Date unknown but probably about 1970. The connections to the GNR platforms to the station front have gone as has the Platform 3 line to the rear but the track to North Bridge is still there. The only railway activity today centres on the…
Halifax North Bridge Station - LYR00176
LYRS 3831b - General view of station, unusual signal box and goods yard looking south. The station opened for goods traffic in 1874 when the line to Holmfield was constructed and for passengers in 1880 and closed to them in 1955 when the Queensbury…
Halifax North Bridge. - LYR00177
LYRS 4266 - 1930. General view of station platforms and canopies and the unusual signal box looking south with the goods yard beyond. The station opened for goods traffic in 1874 when the line to Holmfield was constructed and for passengers in 1880…
Halifax Dean Clough. - LYR00178
LYRS 2317 - John Crossley & Sons No 42 - part of 7-plank wagon in the private siding at North Bridge. The sidings have gone and the vast Dean Clough complex no longer manufactures carpets but is now in mixed commercial usage. longer
Halifax High Level Railway. - LYR00179
LYRS 3572 - Wheatley Viaduct, tunnel & goods yard in a panoramic view. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known as St Pauls on Parkinson Lane near King…
Halifax High Level Railway - St Paul's - LYR00180
LYRS 3462n - C.1927. Halifax St Paul's Coal Depot - general view of depot including track, wagons and buildings. The joint L&YR and GNR line opened in 1890 from a junction at Holmfield on the Halifax - Queensbury line up to a terminus station known…
Train between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel. - LYR00181
LYRS 1157 - Aspinall 4-4-2, Highflyer, No 737 heading a Leeds express with bogie stock carriages, as opposed to rigidly-mounted axles, on the embankment between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel. Above the smoke the tower of the former…
Luddendenfoot Station - LYR00183
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. …
Luddendenfoot Station - LYR00185
LYRS 6068 - 1963. The 'Up' Manchester platform and timber buildings a year after the station closed. The platform had been accessed from the Leeds platform by a footbridge which is just visible on the left.
Luddendenfoot Station - LYR00186
LYRS 6092 - 1963. Gas lamp outside the Booking Office looking down Station Road a year after the station had closed.
Luddendenfoot Signal Box - LYR00189
LYRS5047n. The Signal Box and siding to the east of the Station below the Congregational Church on Burnley Road.
Luddendenfoot Station - Coal Drops. - LYR00192
LYRS6084. 1963. The now demolished coal drops at the top of Station Road following closure of the station.
Luddendenfoot Station Yard. - LYR00193
LYRS6073. 1963. Disused horse drawn dray belonging to F&H Sutcliffe of Wood Top, Hebden Bridge.
Luddendenfoot Station Yard. - LYR00194
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.
Road Overbridge. - LYR00195
LYRS 6066 - 1963. Road overbridge (iron girders on stone abutments) between Mytholmroyd & Luddendenfoot.
The long building seen behind the bridge was formally a mill, but was later occupied by Kenneth Watson, who used it as a hatchery for parent…
The long building seen behind the bridge was formally a mill, but was later occupied by Kenneth Watson, who used it as a hatchery for parent…
Mytholmroyd Station. - LYR00196
LYRS 2768 - General view of the platforms looking in the Sowerby direction. The Signal Box near the Sorting Sidings just visible in the mist. The platforms not only straddled the viaduct but overhang it supported by massive brackets.
Mytholmroyd Station - LYR00197
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.
Mytholmroyd Station - LYR00199
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…
Mytholmroyd Station - LYR00200
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…
Mytholmroyd Station looking north. - LYR00201
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…
Mytholmroyd Station - Platform support brackets - LYR00202
LYRS 6063 - 1962. The platforms not only ran the length of the viaduct but also overhung it supported by these massive iron brackets. Not entirely without incidents:
"A few months ago a large flagstone dropped out of the platform at Mytholmroyd…
"A few months ago a large flagstone dropped out of the platform at Mytholmroyd…