Wortley Station. GCR Penistone – Sheffield Victora Line - DNT00302
Canopies, Double Track, Foot bridge, GCR, Gas Lamps, Great Central, Platform, Platform Canopies, Railway, Railway station, Railway track, Station Buildings, Station Notices, Station Staff, railway workers
Wortley Station between Penistone and Deepcar on the Sheffield – Manchester Woodhead line opened with the line in 1845. Seen here with a sizeable staff for a small station.
The station was close to Wortley Hall seat of the Earl of Wharncliffe, a keen proponent of railway development, and there was a private waiting room for his and his family’s use.
The station closed in 1955 and train services on the line ceased in 1981 and the rails were subsequently lifted.
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Penistone Station - DNT00301
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The first station at Penistone on the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway’s (later Great Central) Sheffield – Manchester Woodhead line opened in 1845. When the L&YR line from Huddersfield to Penistone opened in 1850 it joined the Woodhead line at a junction east of the station with the result that L&YR trains had to reverse into the station. This persisted until 1874 when a new joint station was built with GCR and L&YR having their own platforms.
Penistone was also the terminus for trains from Doncaster via Barnsley connecting to the Woodhead line.
The GCR platforms closed in 1970 together with the Woodhead line to passenger and the line closed fully in 1981 and the tracks were subsequently lifted. The two remaining platforms for the Huddersfield – Sheffield line now sport just simple shelters for passengers.
The end of the GCR platforms are seen here in this image with GCR locos and carriages and in the background the Yorkshire Iron & Steel Works.
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Denby Dale Station. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00300
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As with other intermediate stations it opened with the line in 1850 and is seen here early 20th century. The station remains open but de-staffed since the mid-1960s with the buildings long demolished and replaced by a shelter on the sole platform on the now single track line.
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Shepley & Shelley Station c.1900. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00299
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Serving the villages of Shepley and Shelley it opened, like other intermediate stations, with the line in 1850. Only one platform is seen here as its staggered platforms were separated by a road overbridge to the right of the photo. The station survived the Beeching cuts of the 1960s but was de-staffed in 1966 and the buildings subsequently demolished. In 1989 the line was largely reduced to single track but remains double track through the station here. It has been renamed ‘Shelley’.
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Thongsbridge Station. L&YR Holmfirth Branch - DNT00297
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The station opened with the Branch in 1850 and was the only intermediate station on the Branch, which was less than two miles in length. The station closed to passengers in 1959 and to goods in 1965 with the closure of the Branch by which time the footbridge had gone and the buildings were subsequently demolished.
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Brockholes Station c1900. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00296
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The station at the junction with the Holmfirth Branch opened with the line and the Branch in 1850. The Branch closed in 1959 but the station survived both the closure and the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. Like other intermediate stations on the line it was de-staffed in the mid-1960s and a few years later the Waiting Room on the down platform, seen here on the left, was demolished along with the footbridge. The line was reduced to single track over much of its length in 1989. The buildings seen here on the right, on the the now redundant platform, are in private residential use.
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Honley Station. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00295
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The station opened with the line in 1850 but survived the Beeching cuts of the 1960s although the station buildings were mostly demolished and subsequently the line was reduced to single track. The station is seen here in 1927 looking in the Huddersfield direction.
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Berry Brow Station. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00293
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The station, south of the impressive Lockwood Viaduct, opened at the same time as the line in 1850. A small goods yard can just be made out on the far side of the road bridge.
Unusual features of the station were two stone carvings of trains exiting tunnels, the first dated from the 1860s and the second from the 1880s. These can be seen here to the right of the platform canopy. (See DNT00294.)
The station closed in 1966 and in 1989 a new station was opened 330 yards south of the original. By that time the line had been reduced to single track and the new single platform station offers only a basic shelter.
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Meltham Station. L&YR Meltham Branch - DNT00292
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The station, seen here in 1910, was the terminus of the 31/2 mile Branch. The Branch opened to goods traffic in 1868 and to passengers in 1869. Passenger services were withdrawn from the Branch in 1949 and it closed fully in 1965. The site is now occupied by housing and a supermarket and much of the trackbed is now a greenway.
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Healey House Station. L&YR Meltham Branch - DNT00291
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The station, seen here in 1910, is named after the nearby large late 18th century house of that name. Reputedly the station was built to serve close-by Crosland Mill and reputedly was also used by the occupiers of Healey House and Crosland Hall for private trains to take them for their annual grouse shooting in Scotland.
Like the other two stations on the single track 31/2 mile Branch it opened for passengers in 1869 and closing in 1949. The line fully closed in 1965.
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Netherton Station, L&YR Meltham Branch - DNT00290
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The single track 31/2 mile Meltham Branch left the Huddersfield – Penistone Line from a junction south of Lockwood station opening to goods traffic in 1868 and to passengers the following year with a station at Netherton. The station is seen here probably early 20th century.
The Branch closed to passengers in 1949 and to goods in 1965 and the track was subsequently lifted.
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Lockwood Station. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00289
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Lockwood was the first station out of Huddersfield on the Penistone Line and opened at the same time as the line in 1850, seen here early 20th century looking north in the Huddersfield direction. South of the station was the junction for the 31/2 mile Meltham Branch (1868-1965) and south of the junction the impressive 122ft high 32 arched Lockwood Viaduct strides across the Holme Valley.
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Hebden Bridge - Stubbings Steps – AGW00233
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Stubbings Steps from School Street down to Commercial Street in the 1950s. The building at the bottom was originally the toll bar house on the Leeds and Hebden Bridge Turnpike Road.
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Hebden Bridge - High Street - ALC00377
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High Street but not as in Main Street but as in 'high'. It ran parallel to Bridge Lanes below Heptonstall Road and was demolished at the same time as Bridge Lanes in 1963/4.
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Hebden Bridge - Stubbings Steps - ALC00369
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Stubbings Steps from School Street down to Commercial Street in the 1950s. The building at the bottom was originally the toll bar house on the Lees and Hebden Bridge Turnpike Road.
Recalling the days of moody black and white films such as “Room at the Top” and “A Kind of Loving” Alan Greenwood captured an evocative moment in time in his wonderful photo, “Descent,” taken in 1962. The young man descending the steps at Birchcliffe is Keith Astin: ahead of him lies Hebden Bridge town centre where delights such as the Co-operative Central Store, centre, beckon! Old code No. AT373AG.
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Hebden Bridge - Bankfoot, c1930 - ALC00342
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Looking down towards Bankfoot with well spaced gas lamps. Bankfoot House on the left and Bankfoot Dyeworks centre right. The days before 'smoke free zones' with smoke coming from the chimneys of several houses on the hillside. The car, perhaps being towed, has a West Riding 'U' number plate which would go for a goodly sum today.
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Hebden Bridge - Market Street - ALC00337
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Christmas 1909. Shops: on right Haberghams Costumery, Millinery and Dressmaking advertising 'Christmas Presents' and 'New Year Gifts' and next to him Hilton Crossley. With one exception some very middle class shoppers.
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Hebden Bridge - West End - ALC00332
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ALC00332. West End shops in the 1920s; Blackburn Ironmongers still there as in the 1910 photograph. The gabled building on the left on the corner of Bridge Gate and New Road was demolished in 1931 for widening New Road; the cut back corner building is now Holts Greengrocers and is dated 1931.
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West End Bridge, Hebden Bridge, c1910 - ALC00330
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Horse and cart crossing West End Bridge in to Market Street. Jackson Merchant Tailor's at the junction with Old Gate looking down Market Street. Building now demolished.
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Hebden Bridge - Bankfoot, c1930 - HLS05094
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Looking down towards Bankfoot with well spaced gas lamps. Bankfoot House on the left and Bankfoot Dyeworks centre right. The days before 'smoke free zones' with smoke coming from the chimneys of several houses on the hillside. The car, perhaps being towed, has a West Riding 'U' number plate which would go for a goodly sum today.
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