Denby Dale Station. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00300
Canopies, Chimneys, Crossover Line, Double Track, Factory Chimney, Foot Crossing, Gas Lamps, L&YR, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Metaphore Signal, Passengers, Penistone Line, Platform, Platform Canopies, Railway, Railway signage, Railway station, Railway track, Station Buildings, Station Notices, Telegraph Pole
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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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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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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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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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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Saddleworth Station. LNWR Huddersfield – Manchester Line - DNT00285
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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 which is seen here about1900 had 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. Instead a loop line, the Micklehurst Loop, was built by the LNWR between Diggle and Stalybridge with its own intermediate stations.
The station was closed in 1968 and the station building, seen here on the left, was converted into a private house and the remaining buildings and platforms demolished.
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Marsden Station, LNWR Huddersfied – Manchester Line - DNT00283
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Marsden 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 at an unknown date with a weed ridden island platform and a train headed by a grimy steam loco, seemingly with a BR number, pulling into the Huddersfield direction platform on the slow lines.
The line reverted to double track in the mid-1960s but the station escaped the Beeching axe in 1968 although the buildings were demolished and later replaced with bus stop style shelters.
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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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Golcar Station, LNWR Huddersfied – Manchester Line - DNT00280
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Golcar Station on the LNWR’s line along the Colne Valley opened in 1849 at the same time as the line and was enlarged in the mid-1890s when the line was increased from two to four tracks. Seen here possibly in LNWR days.
The line reverted to double track in the mid-1960s and the station was closed in 1968, the buildings demolished and the platforms lifted.
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Huddersfield Station Interior - DNT00278
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Date unknown but a woman in early 20th century dress is just discernible standing among the waiting passengers. The L&YR signs include ‘Ladies Third Class Waiting Room’ and ‘Ladies First and Second Class Waiting Room’; the L&YR belatedly abolished Second Class in 1912.
When built in 1846/50 there was only one platform behind the magnificent station frontage and the station was not enlarged until 1886; in August 1885 the roof had collapsed during enlargement construction killing four men. The extended station included an island platform seen here on the left.
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Huddersfield Station Interior pre-1910 - DNT00277
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The image is taken from a postcard with August 1910 postmark.
When built in 1846/50 there was only one platform behind the magnificent station frontage and the station was not enlarged until 1886; in August 1885 during the enlargement construction the roof had collapsed killing four men. The extended station included an island platform seen here with trains on both platform sides.
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Morecambe Promenade Station - DNT00233
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OK so it’s not Bradford but Morecambe did become known as ‘Bradford by the Sea’. The MR’s direct rail line between Bradford and Morecambe not only made it a favourite resort for trips and holidays for Bradford people but it got the name Bradford by the Sea more for the number of Bradford industrialists and business men who lived there and commuted daily, travelling in a special MR club carriage, as well as for the affluent Bradford people who retired there.
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Manningham Station - DNT00221
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The first station out of Bradford on the Midland’s line towards Shipley it was opened in 1868 and closed nearly a hundred years later in 1965.
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Bradford Market Street Midland Station Train Shed c.1915 - DNT00216
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The station here was originally built in 1846 by the Leeds & Bradford Railway which had been formed to connect the two towns with a railway along the Aire Valley; it was acquired by the MR in 1853 who rebuilt the station. It was intended that when the L&YR line was completed from Halifax to Bradford in 1850 it would extend across Bradford to join up with the Midland Station but this never came about thus leaving Bradford to this day with two disconnected terminus stations only a few hundred metres apart. The station was re- built in 1890 to accommodate the MR’s Anglo-Scottish traffic resulting from construction of their Settle-Carlisle line; the train shed, seen here, covered six platforms. The station was also used by the NER primarily for their Harrogate services.
The station became known as Market Street Station and then in 1924 it was officially named Forster Square Station. In 1967 services were reduced to serving just Ilkley and Skipton with Leeds services discontinued but an hourly service has been restored. The station seen here has been demolished and replaced with a much truncated and utilitarian structure a little further west.
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Bradford Market Street Midland Station Train Shed c.1915. - DNT00215
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The station here was originally built in 1846 by the Leeds & Bradford Railway which had been formed to connect the two towns with a railway along the Aire Valley; it was acquired by the MR in 1853 who rebuilt the station. It was intended that when the L&YR line was completed from Halifax to Bradford in 1850 it would extend across Bradford to join up with the Midland Station but this never came about thus leaving Bradford to this day with two disconnected terminus stations only a few hundred metres apart. The station was re- built in 1890 to accommodate the MR’s Anglo-Scottish traffic resulting from construction of their Settle-Carlisle line; the train shed, seen here, covered six platforms. The station was also used by the NER primarily for their Harrogate services.
The station became known as Market Street Station and then in 1924 it was officially named Forster Square Station. In 1967 services were reduced to serving just Ilkley and Skipton with Leeds services discontinued but an hourly service has been restored. The station seen here has been demolished and replaced with a much truncated and utilitarian structure a little further west.
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Cullingworth Station c.1900 - DNT00210
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On the GNR line between Keighley and Queensbury where it connected with lines to Bradford and Halifax. The station opened with the line in 1884 and closed in 1955 at the same time as the line closed to passenger traffic, closing to all traffic in 1963.
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Haworth Station c.1900 - DNT00203
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Haworth Station on the single track Keighley & Worth Valley Railway opened in 1867 at the same time as the line, seen here looking towards Keighley. From its earliest days it was busy with pilgrims to the shrine of the Bronte sisters. 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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Haworth Station c.1900 - DNT00202
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Haworth Station on the single track Keighley & Worth Valley Railway opened in 1867 at the same time as the line, seen here looking towards Oxenhope. From its earliest days it was busy with pilgrims to the shrine of the Bronte sisters. 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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Keighley Station - DNT00200
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The Leeds & Bradford Extension Railway, acquired by the MR, between Shipley and Colne opened through Keighley in 1847 giving the town its first station. The station seen here with a large island platform dates from 1883 and is on the opposite side of Bradford Road to the 1847 station which was developed as a goods yard and sidings. In 1867 the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway opened between Keighley Station and Oxenhope followed in 1884 with the opening of GNR’s line between Queensbury and Keighley and the sign to their trains on the opposite side of the island platform can be seen in the centre of the photo. The GNR lines closed in 1955 and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway was closed by BR in 1962 but was re-opened six years later as a heritage railway. See http://kwvr.co.uk/
The station remains open serving the Airedale Line, electrified in 1994 between Leeds and Skipton, and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
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Bolon Abbey Station - DNT00196
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An intermediate station on the MR’s Ilkley – Skipton line it opened with the line in 1888. The great popularity of Bolton Abbey made it a very busy station particularly in summer with excursion trains of several railway companies; it was also the terminus for the royal train during the reign of George V when he came to Bolton Hall to stay with the Duke of Devonshire for shooting. The station closed with the line in 1965 and the buildings fell into a state of dereliction
The site has subsequently been acquired by the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway - www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk
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Esholt Station - DNT00189
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The station on the MR’s Shipley – Guiseley line opened at the same time as the line in 1876 and was closed in 1940 and the building subsequently demolished. The line, now electrified but reduced to single track, remains in use for Bradford Forster Square – Ilkley services.
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Guiseley Station - DNT00188
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The MR’s branch from the Otley & Ilkley Joint Railway to their Aire Valley line at Apperley Junction had opened in 1865 and the station at Guiseley was opened at the same time. The connection to the Aire Valley line was Leeds facing which meant that Bradford trains had either to reverse on and off the branch or be uncoupled and then coupled up to a new loco. To overcome this inconvenience in 1876 the MR built a spur from near Shipley on the Aire Valley Line to Esholt Junction a mile or so south of Guiseley Station. The NER obtained running powers over the line which enabled them to run a direct Harrogate/Bradford service without having to
go via Leeds with a change at Holbeck.
The original buildings have been demolished but the station remained open still with services to Ilkley, Leeds and Bradford Forster Square, now known as the Wharfedale Line. The line was electrified in 1994/5 and the station was re-developed in 2002.
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Morley Top Station, Nr. Leeds - DNT00168
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Morley Top, seen here pre-First World War, was on the Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway’s Gildersome Branch and extension which opened over its whole length between Laisterdyke and Ardsley in 1857 and was acquired by the GNR in 1865. The station which was much nearer to the town centre than Morley Low opened in 1857 and the platforms stood over the LNWR Leeds-Huddersfield. Morley Top closed in 1960 and the line between Laisterdyke and Ardsley closed to passengers in 1966 and gradually to freight services with the final short stub between Laisterdyke and Dudley Hill closing in 1981.
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