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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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Holmfirth Station. L&YR Holmfirth Branch - DNT00298
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The station seen here early 20th century was the terminus of the Branch which had opened in 1850. Although the Branch was double track the station had only a single platform as seen here. The station and branch closed to passengers in 1959 and to all traffic in 1965. The imposing station building with chimney stacks, seen at the far end of the platform here, has survived as a private house with a small section of the platform but all other structures have gone.
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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 Sculptures. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00294
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The two sculptures, seen here early 1900s, both show trains leaving a tunnel. The first sculpture, seen here in the top right hand corner, was carved by local sculptor Thomas Stocks in about 1866 depicting a train of four wheeled coaches. The second sculpture, which replaced the original in the centre, as seen here was made by Thomas Stocks’ son, J C Stocks, in about1886. This shows a Barton Wright 0-4-4T loco hauling a train and is surmounted by a carved head, reputably of Thomas Swinburn who had been an engineer on the line.
Very regrettably by the early 1960s the earlier carving had been irretrievably damaged by vandalism but the later sculpture was moved in 1963 to the Railway Museum at York. When it was announced that a new station was to be built in 1989 it was hoped that this sculpture would be returned but it was moved a bit nearer home to the Tolson Museum in Huddersfield.
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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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Huddersfield Station c.1900 - DNT00276
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The magnificent Grade I listed station building; the imposing frontage was described by John Betjeman as 'the most splendid in England' and Nikolaus Pevsner considered it to be one of the best stations in the country. Its grandeur owes much to the influence of the Ramsden family who owned most of Huddersfield at the time it was built in 1846/50 and who insisted that it reflect their status. The station was operated jointly by the London & North Western Railway and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and they each had their own Booking Offices in the pavilions at the end of the colonnades which extended out from the central block with its giant portico. Above their respective pavilion is the company’s crest but in place of the LNWR's it is that of the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway who had promoted the line prior to becoming part of the LNWR.
In the foreground are lines of the Huddersfield Corporation Tramways which operated between 1883 and 1940. Steam locomotives were initially used to pull the tramcars but the system was electrified in 1900 and electric trams started to run in 1901; the cable gantries can be seen here but it doesn’t appear if the cables had then been installed.
In 1968 the station building was purchased by Huddersfield Corporation to save the town’s finest building from threatened demolition.
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