Browse Items (121 total)

  • Tags: Railway line

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS001080.jpg
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…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS001078.jpg
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 diesel D398 collided with the 'Copy Pit' banker*, an 8F 2-8-0 steam loco, at about 60-70 mph. The driver of the…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CRN00433.jpg
Bottom of Old Rake. Partially blocked waterway, railway line can be seen in the background.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CRN00406.jpg
Norman Jowetts from the level crossing at Portsmouth.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CRN00404.jpg
Norman Jowetts haulage works at Portsmouth. The railway line can be seen top centre.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TAS00709.jpg
Heap and Ashworth, from Bacup and Rossendale, worked at CALDERVALE weaving shed throughout the depression of the cotton famine. After 4 or 5 years there, they built a weaving shed for 400 looms and a carding and spinning mill at Frostholme, near the…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/DNT00101.jpg
The station opened here when the section of the Manchester and Leeds Railway between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge was inaugurated in December 1840. The station closed in 1951 but the coal drops remained in use until the mid-1960s.

Photo David N…

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/JNB00526.jpg
A corner in Crossley's Carpet Mills, now Dean Clough, taken in in the late 1920s and published in 1937.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/MCH00140.jpg
The railway line was used to transport men and materials during the construction of the reservoir, which was opened in October 1907.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TNC00373.jpg
A good view of the Todmorden - Burnley railway line, the Copy Pit Line, and Lydgate or Nott Wood Viaduct. In the distance Mons Mill, demolished in 2000, and Stoodley Pike on the skyline top left.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TNC00354.jpg
Robinwood Mill on the right with Stoodley Pike on the skyline and the Burnley - Todmorden railway, the Copy Pit Line, on the left which was once threatened with closure but now has hourly Blackpool - York and Blackburn - Manchester services.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CRN00313.jpg
Looking down on Knotts Road and the Railway Line, April 2003.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CRN00312.jpg
April 2003, Dundee, Frieldhurst, Vale and Windfarm

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/CRN00246.jpg
Looking towards Todmorden from above the picnic site. The railway line goes over Horsfall Arches (Lobb Mill viaduct) before entering Castle Hill Tunnel. Todmorden Town Hall is in the centre in the distance.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TNC00440.jpg
A view over the town taken from below Cross Stone. The Unitarian Church spire can be seen on the left.

http://www.penninehorizons.org/Omeka_photos/TNC00381.jpg
A good view with the Todmorden - Burnley railway line and road in close proximity in the valley bottom. The spire of St Michael's and All Angels Church can be seen left of centre of the shot.
Output Formats

atom, csv, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2