WD Austerity 2-8-No. 90138 - TAS00650 - TAS001145
Copy Pit Line, Goods Wagons, Railway, Railways, Steam engine, Steam loco, Todmorden
WD Austerity 2-8-0 number 90138 hauling a goods train. Location and date unknown but probably on the Copy Pit line post World War II.
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Railway Accident at Cornholme 1967 - TAS001144
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During the night of 15 August a train of 36 loaded vans and empty mineral wagons from Lostock Hall to Healey Mills headed by a Type 4 disel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the diesel was killed and wreckage was strewn over a mile with some wagons rolling down the embankment including into houses in Cornholme. (Information thanks to 'Railway Memories No. 11, Halifax and the Calder Valley' published by Bellcode Books.)
* Banking was the use on a steep gradient of a powerful loco at the rear of a heavy train to help ‘push it up’ and also to stop any wagons that broke away from rolling back down hill, not unknown in the Upper Calder Valley.
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Railway Sidings - TAS001106
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Buckley Wood behind - this is 'Todmorden Triangle'
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Goods Train - TAS001099
Diesel Engine, Goods Wagons, Railway, Railways
Approaching Horsfall Tunnel after all the extention works done
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Penistone Station - DNT00301
Chimneys, Factory Chimney, Foot Crossing, GCR, Gas Lamps, Goods Wagons, Great Central, Metaphore Signal, Passenger Train, Penistone Line, Platform, Railway, Railway Carriages, Railway signage, Railway station, Railway track, Signal, Signal Gantry, Steam engine, Steam locomotive, Train
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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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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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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Delph Station. LNWR Delph Branch - DNT00287
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One of several stations in the civil parish of Saddleworth which, although on the western slopes of the South Pennines, was in the West Riding of Yorkshire up until local government re-organisation in 1974 when it passed to Greater Manchester.
The branch to Delph left the Huddersfield – Manchester line south of Saddleworth Station. It had opened in 1851 and was closed in 1955 to passenger traffic but it continued to handle freight until 1963. The station building was converted into a private house.
Seen here at an unknown date but seemingly prior to withdrawal of passenger traffic in 1955 with a rake of goods wagons on a siding to the front of the passenger platform.
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Greenfield Station. LNWR Huddersfield – Manchester Line - DNT00286
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One of several stations in the civil parish of Saddleworth which, although on the western slopes of the South Pennines, was in the West Riding of Yorkshire up until local government re-organisation in 1974 when it passed to Greater Manchester. It is the only one of those stations to have survived the Beeching axe in 1968.
The station, seen here in 1954 looking in the Huddersfield direction, opened with the line in 1849. It was unaffected by the widening of the line in the mid-1890s as there wasn’t enough room alongside the existing double tracks and instead a loop line, the Micklehurst Loop, was built by the LNWR between Diggle and Stalybridge with its own intermediate stations.
As mentioned the station survived the Beeching axe but lost its buildings and passenger facilities until a new ticket office, waiting areas, toilets were opened in Spring 2009 with step-free access to the Manchester-bound platform but the Huddersfield-bound one can only be reached by a footbridge.
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Diggle Station. LNWR Huddersfield – Manchester Line - DNT00284
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One of several stations in the civil parish of Saddleworth which, although on the western slopes of the South Pennines, was in the West Riding of Yorkshire up until local government re-organisation in 1974 when it passed to Greater Manchester.
The station had opened with the line in 1849 at the western end of the 3 miles 57 yards (4880 metres) Standedge Tunnels, a canal tunnel and a single bore railway tunnel at the time. The station was enlarged in the mid-1890s when the line was increased from two to four tracks. It is seen here in BR days and in the background are the western portals of the two single bore railway tunnels, the Nicholson Tunnel (1848) on the left and the Nelson Tunnel (1871) on the right, the 1894 double bore tunnel is hidden from sight by the steam hauled train at the station.
Seen here at an unknown date between nationalisation in 1948 and the line reverting to double track in the mid1960s. On the right a rake of goods wagons in a siding. The station was closed in 1968; there have been unsuccessful campaigns to have it re-opened.
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Slaithwaite Station, LNWR Huddersfied – Manchester Line - DNT00282
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Slaithwaite 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 with well maintained platforms at an unknown date, but probably pre-1948 Nationalisation, or even earlier. The LNWR’s ringed semaphore signal on the slow lines does not appear on 1960s photos nor does the foot/barrow crossing but those later photos do show a standard semaphore signal at the end of the island platform. A steam locomotive is just discernible through the haze approaching the fast lines platforms.
The line reverted to double track in the mid-1960s and the station was closed under the Beeching axe in 1968 and the station buildings subsequently demolished and the platforms lifted. A new station was built on the site opening in 1982 with two platforms and bus stop style shelters.
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Kirkburton Station, Nr. Huddersfield - DNT00275
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Kirkburton Station was the terminus of the LNWR’s Kirkburton Branch and opened with the Branch in 1867. The line and station closed to passenger traffic in 1930 when the LNWR’s successor, the LMS, obtained a half share in the Huddersfield Corporation’s bus service. The line remained open for goods traffic until 1965 when it closed fully.
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Low Moor Station, Bradford - DNT00232
Bradford, Goods Wagons, Island Platform, LYR, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Places, Platform, Railway, Railway Goods Yard, Railway Sidings, Railway junction, Railway station, Railways, Semaphore Signals, Sidings, Signal Gantry, Signal box, Signals, Station, Station Building, Station Canopies, Station Platform, Steam Loco, Steam engine
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 at one point were the largest in Europe. The station closed in 1965 and was subsequently demolished but a new station opened here in 2017.
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Oxenhope Station - DNT00207
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The southern terminus of the single track Keighley & Worth Valley Railway opened in 1867 at the same time as the line, seen here looking towards Keighley possibly in MR days. The line was operated by the MR from the start and acquired by them in 1881. The station closed in 1961 and the line in 1962 re-opening as a heritage railway in 1968.
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Elland Station - DNT00119
Calder Valley, Chimney, Chimneys, Coal Wagons, Elland, Gas Lamp, Goods Wagons, Goods Yard, Island Platform, LMS, LYR, Lamp, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Locomotive, M&LR, Manchester & Leeds Railway, Mill, Places, Platform, Railway, Railway Sidings, Railway Wagons, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Canopies, Station Platform, Station Signage, Steam engine, Telegraph Pole
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 an island station as seen here in LMS days. It was closed in 1962. It had been hoped that a station would have been reopened in 2000 when passenger services were reintroduced on this section of the line.
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Greetland Station Goods Shed & Yard, October 1962. - NGH00123
Coal Yard, Goods Shed, Goods Wagons, LMS, LYR, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, M&LR, Manchester & Leeds Railway, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station
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 shed was subsequently demolished and the sidings lifted.
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Greetland Station Goods Yard, July 1938. - NGH00105
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View of the goods yard or sidings looking down the line in the Elland direction. The station closed in 1962 and an oil terminal was built on the site of the goods yard.
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Luddendenfoot. - WAO00253
Bowling Green, Burnley Road, Goods Wagons, Goods Yard, Luddenden Foot, Railway, Railway Wagons, Railways, Sport and Recreation, Street Names, Tennis court, steam roller
A steam vehicle on Burnley Road passing tennis court and bowling green on Tillotson Holme and above long lines of railway goods wagons in the Station Goods Yard, closed 1962. St Mary's Church with its 126ft spire, demolished 1980, on the hillside
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Todmorden Goods Yard. - LYR00273
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LYRS 0467 - Aspinall 0-6-0ST No. unknown at the Goods Yard, including wagons for a Burnley based colliery. The yard closed to general goods in 1964 and to coal in 1972; it is now the station car park.
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Todmorden Station General View - LYR00250
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LYRS 2793n - Date unknown but in LYR days pre-1922 The Goods Yard is now the Station Car Park and the canopies and signals as well as the buildings on the left hand platform have now all gone. Cross Stone Church on the skyline
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Todmorden Panorama. - LYR00249
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LYRS2797a. Looking east over the station and the town. The goods yard is now the station car park and most of the station buildings have now gone. The Stansfield or Todmorden Curve can just be seen on the far left going off beyond the signal box.
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Portsmouth Station - LYR00243
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LYRS 2954 - Postcard view of the station, level crossing and signal box.
The station opened in 1849 and closed to passengers in 1958 and to goods in 1963. The road name, Station Approach, is the only indicator to its once existence but the level crossing is still there.
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Hebden Bridge Station and Warehouse - LYR00222
Goods Shed, Goods Wagons, Goods Yard, Hebden Bridge, Hebden Bridge Station, LYR, Places, Platform, Railway, Railway Signals, Railway Warehouse, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Canopies, Station Platform, Station Warehouse
LYRS 8452 -Date unknown but after the demolition of Victoria Mill in the later 1960s. General view of the Goods Warehouse, platforms, station buildings and canopies looking east. Only one of the former three taking-in door hoists on the warehouse remains. Goods facilities were withdrawn in 1966 and the warehouse let for general storage. It was demolished in 1969 following a serious fire. The site is now the station car park. . The white diamond on the signal post shows the presence of a track circuit.
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Hebden Bridge Station - Yard Crane and Goods Hoist. - LYR00221
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LYRS6051 - Goods facilities were withdrawn in 1966 and the goods yard closed and dismantled. The warehouse was let for general storage but was demolished in 1969 following a serious fire. The site is now the station car park. . The square wood clad tower could contain the pressurized water supply for hydraulic power to the lifts.
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Hebden Bridge Station Warehouse - LYR00220
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LYRS6050. The large double bay station warehouse in 1963 but with only one of the former three taking-in door hoists left. Goods facilities were withdrawn in 1966 and the warehouse let for general storage. It was demolished in 1969 following a serious fire. The site is now the station car park. . The track on the running lines is now flat bottomed in contrast to the “bull head” rails in the goods yard.
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