View over Todmorden - TAS01428
Longfield, Railway Sidings, Railway Wagons, Todmorden, Unitarian Church
Looking over railway sidings towards Unitarian Church and Longfield
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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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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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Mytholmroyd from Scout Road - PNH01563
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The sorting sidings c.1950. Constructed in 1919 they were used to divide coal trains from the Yorkshire coalfields between those for the Manchester direction and those for the Burnley and north west. They operated 24 hours a day until closure in January 1964. Including the signal box they had employed 33 shift workers.
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Halifax, General View. - PNH00821
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PNH00821 c.1970. Looking across the station and good yards. On the far right at the bottom of Horton Street is the large 1885 double bay entrance building, replaced in the 1980s. The sidings under the footbridge, centre, are in course of being dismantled and that site is now Eureka Children's Museum. Far left the former L&YR Shaw Syke goods facility which in the late 1980s housed the ill fated Horses At Work Museum.
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Low Moor Station, Bradford - DNT00232
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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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Manningham Station and Motive Power Depot - DNT00222
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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. Seen here on the right is the sizeable Manningham Motive Power Depot which closed in 1967 and then demolished.
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Elland Station - DNT00119
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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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Hebden Bridge Station 1950s/60s - DNT00110
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Post nationalisation in 1948 looking across to the 'up' Manchester platform. On the 'down' platform there are platform staff and porters' barrows. A goods or engineers train makes up steam by the station warehouse alongside a maintenance gang.
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Mytholmroyd - THB00177
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Cragg road runs across the bottom of the picture, and Dean Hey is to the bottom right of the picture.
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Aerial View of Mytholmroyd - THB00176
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Showing the Thornber breeding pens. Note the railway sidings.
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Luddendenfoot General View - ALC00456
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View from the north hillside across Station Road to the coal drops and the goods yard. Date unknown but the station closed in 1962 and the goods yard in 1965. The only evidence there once was a station here is in the name 'Station Road'.
The parish church on the hill opposite was declared redundant and demolished in the 1970s and the two mills with their chimneys have also now gone.
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Mytholmroyd - General View. - ALC00431
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ALC00431. Date unknown but the land in the foreground not yet levelled for the construction of the railway siding in 1919. Centre right
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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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Eastwood Station 1963 - LYR00233
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LYRS 6034 - General view from above station looking north east towards Hebden Bridge. The passenger station had closed 12 years earlier and goods facilities were to be shortly withdrawn when this photo was taken in August 1963.
The station half way between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden was opened by the Manchester & Leeds Railway in December 1840. The valley is so narrow that the track had to be built on a cut out shelf above the valley floor and the platforms staggered to allow room for goods facilities. It was accessed by a steep double sided track from the main road.
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Hebden Bridge - General View across the Station - LYR00210
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LYRS2701. Early 20thc. pre-1908 view across the railway station to the town. The passenger station, re-built 1891/2, wedged between Victoria Mill to its right and the large railway warehouse to the left, the second bay of which built in 1884 still looking new. Bottom right the Crow Nest Works of the joint Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd Gas Board.
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Stainland & Holywell Green Station. - LYR00149
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LYRS 2599 - Stainland Station & Goods Shed with Railmotor No 10614 (LMS) in the later 1920s.
The Stainland Branch left the Calder Valley Main Line at Greetland and opened in 1875 up to near Brookroyd Mills at Holywell Green, whose owners, the Shaws, had influenced the line’s construction. Although less than two miles long it was heavily engineered with two substantial stone viaducts; West Vale 13 arches and Holywell Green 14 arches. The single platform station at Holywell Green was poorly placed down a steep hill well below Stainland.
Despitein 1907 the introduction of railmotors the Branch was unable to cope first with competition from electfic trams and then from motor buses and closed to passengers in 1929 and fully in 1959.
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Sowerby Bridge - Panorama of Rail Track. - LYR00131
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LYRS 3500 - Sowerby Bridge - panorama of trackwork. Note the unusual signals hanging from the gantry. The Goods Yards and Sidings were all lifted and the locomotive depot demolished in 1965 although the base of the water tower and coaling stage has been incorporated into an industrial unit. The site to the left is now a small industrial estate and that to the right Tesco.
The large building top left is the CWS flour mill with its own rail warehouse seen above the water tank. All demolished in 1965.
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Sowerby Bridge - Goods Yard and Locomotive Depot. - LYR00122
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LYRS 2777n -1937. Sowerby Bridge - general view of track formation, loco depot, Goods Yard and West Signal Box taken from the top of Sowerby Tunnel.
Sowerby Bridge was the main operating centre for the Upper Calder Valley with a large engine and rolling stock depot where several locomotives were based. The area is now an industrial estate although the base of the coaling stage has been built into one industrial unit and Tesco now stands on the site of the Goods Depot. The engine shed and the yards were dismantled following closure in 1964.
Sowerby Bridge was the main operating centre for the Upper Calder Valley with a large locomotive depot where several engines were based. The area is now an industrial estate although the base of the coaling stage has been built into one industrial unit and Tesco now stands on the right hand site of the Goods Depot. The engine shed and the yards were dismantled following closure in 1964.
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Ripponden Station. - LYR00109
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LYRS 2584 - Ripponden Station - general view of Goods Shed & Yard. The Branch from Sowerby Bridge to Ripponden opened in 1878 and then on to Rishworth in 1881. Although double track only one had ever been commercially used. The original intention had been to tunnel under Blackstone Edge and re-join the Manchester line near Smithy Bridge so as to reduce journey time between Manchester and Leeds. This did not proceed and the Standedge Line became the preferred direct route between the two cities. Not being able to compete first with trams and then with motor buses the Branch closed to passengers in 1929 and finally to all traffic in 1958.
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View over Todmorden - MOT00146
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General view of Todmorden from Sunnyside in the early 1900s, with the main Manchester to Leeds railway lines arcing away to the left. The triangle not yet developed here.
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Sowerby Bridge Goods Depot. - GEE00108
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L&YR Goods Wagon No. 026.
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Luddendenfoot Goods Yard - GEE00106
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The Goods Yard about 1900. The small town was dominated by its mills with the all important and well equipped goods yard between the main line and the river. The yard closed in 1965 and the site is now an industrial estate.
Photo courtesy Stephen Gee Collection.
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Luddendenfoot - Station Road. - GEE00105
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Station Road from the hillside. The goods yard was later extended over the open land. The main line is hidden from view at the bottom but the footbridge connecting the two platforms is just visible next to the Booking Office. The station closed in 1962 and the goods yard finally in 1965.
Photo courtesy Stephen Gee Collection.
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Hebden Bridge Station - Extract from A. F. Tait's Lithograph - HLS05027
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Enlarged extract from one of a series of Lithographs by A. F. Tait published in 1845 entitled "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway". The station opened in October 1840. Seen here the small station building on the 'Leeds line' is almost hidden by a goods shed; on the 'up' line there was only an engine shed with a very narrow platform to its side. Most early stations only had passenger facilities on one line. The goods shed was much enlarged beween 1877 and 1885 and the passenger station replaced in 1891/2 with the structures we see today.
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