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Halifax. Site of North Bridge Goods Station - DNT00251
By the mid-1860s Halifax Station was considered particularly inconvenient for goods traffic causing delays to the ever necessary delivery of coal and to relieve this bottleneck it was proposed removing mineral and general goods to a station at North…
Halifax. Site of North Bridge Passenger Station - DNT00250
The station opened on the joint GNR/L&YR’s Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway in 1880 nearly six years after the line between Halifax Station and Holmfield had opened. The station closed in 1955 when passenger service between Halifax and Queensbury…
Halifax Station High Level Access Bridge - DNT00249
The newer stonework in the bridge parapet above the centre pillar blocks off what had been the top of steps down to the to the island Platforms 5 & 6 to the front of the station building.
Halifax Station High Level Access Bridge - DNT00248
The high level access was built in the mid-1880s when the station was considerably enlarged including sidings, lines and platforms to the front of the station now, as seen here, car parking and access road to Eureka Children’s Museum. To the right a…
Halifax Station - DNT00247
View looking north east from the station approach road and bridge. On the right the south west portal of Beacon Hill Tunnel and on the left part of the former coal yard now car park for Eureka Children’s Museum. The trees at the far end of the car…
Halifax. Site of the Coal Yard - DNT00246
Now the car park for Eureka Children's Museum. The top of the coal drops hidden from sight by the bushes and trees on the right.
Halifax Coal Drops - DNT00245
The site of the coal yard above and to the right of the drops is now the car park for Eureka Children’s Museum.
Halifax - DNT00244
The viaduct from the station to Beacon Hill Tunnel on the Bradford/Leeds line and just off the image to the right the preserved coal drops. Centre right the lighter stone work covers the abutment to the former viaduct that carried the line to North…
Halifax Station Disused Steps - DNT00243
Remains of the steps down to the disused former Platform 3.
Halifax Station 2009 - DNT00242
The recently restored platforms and canopies looking down the line towards Beacon Hill Tunnel. To the right the up line ansd site of the up loop and to the left the former Platform 3 now along with the station building used in connection with Eureka…
Halifax. Original Pedestrian Gateway to the Station - DNT00241
When the station was built in 1855 the main access was by a sweeping carriage drive from opposite the bottom of Horton Street but there was also this pedestrian access which was blocked up when lines and platforms to the front of the station were…
Halifax Station. Underside of the High Level Approach - DNT00240
The site of the former GNR lines and sidings running to the front of the station building.
Beneath Halifax Station. c.2006 - DNT00239
Originally this dark and insalubrious looking tunnel beneath the station had been for vehicular access to the goods yard at the station’s front and it also it provided a pedestrian access up until the early 2000s to steps up to the station approach,…
Halifax c.1920 - DNT00238
View from Beacon Hill with the railway goods and coal yard in the centre.
Photo David N Taylor Collection.
Photo David N Taylor Collection.
Halifax c.1909 - DNT00237
View of the town from Beacon Hill with the railway goods and coal yard centre and the high level station approach and station centre left.
Halifax Station Approach Road early 20th Century - DNT00236
The high level access road built in the mid-1880s when platforms and lines were constructed to the front of the original 1855 Italian style station building here on the right.
The station was operated jointly by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway…
The station was operated jointly by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway…
Halifax Station c.1900 - DNT00235
HCC00489. The high level approach road built in the mid-1880s when platforms and sidings were constructed to the front of the 1855 Italian style station building.
The station was operated jointly by the London & Lancashire Railway and the Great…
The station was operated jointly by the London & Lancashire Railway and the Great…
Low Moor Station, Bradford - DNT00232
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…
Bowling Junction and Site of Station - DNT00230
Looking in the Halifax direction with the north portal of Bowling Tunnel all but hidden by smoke. The line in the centre continues to Bradford Exchange and the line going off to the left is the Bowling Curve to Laisterdyke where it joined the…
Normanton Station - DNT00126
Normanton Station was opened on 30th June 1840 by the North Midland Railway, later a constituent part of the Midland Railway, on its Leeds-Derby line and on the same day the York & North Midland Railway opened between Normanton and York and this was…
Wakefield Kirkgate Station Frontage - DNT00125
The station was opened by the M&LR at the same time as the section of its line between Hebden Bridge and Normanton and was Wakefield’s only station until Westgate Station was opened in 1867. The station was rebuilt in 1854 and is seen here late 19th…
Wakefield Kirkgate Station - DNT00124
The station was opened by the M&LR at the same time as the section of its line between Hebden Bridge and Normanton and was Wakefield’s only station until Westgate Station was opened in 1867. The station was rebuilt in 1854 and its frontage seen here…
Horbury Junction Station - DNT00123
The station was opened by the L&YR on 1st January 1850 about a mile east of their Horbury & Ossett Station at the junction of their new Barnsley Branch with original M&LR line. The station closed in 1929 but was replaced by a new station on the main…
Horbury Station - DNT00122
The first station situated in Horbury Bridge opened with this section of the M&LR on 5th October 1840 and was named Horbury & Ossett. It was replaced in 1902 with the island platform station seen here, still in Horbury Bridge, and renamed Ossett &…
Cooper Bridge Station - DNT00121
A station opened here at the same time as this section of the M&LR on 5th October 1840 and was the station for Huddersfield, reputedly built for the Armytage family of Kirklees Hall. It was closed in 1950.