Goods Train between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Bridge - LYR00182
Catholic Church, Church, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Embankment, Goods Train, Goods Wagons, Hughes 0-8-0, Luddendenfoot, Minster, Railway, Railway Signals, Railway Wagons, Railway station, Railways, Semaphore Signals, Sowerby Tunnel, Steam engine, Steam loco, Telegraph Pole
LYRS 1442 - Hughes 0-8-0 Number 1357 heading a goods train between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel. To the right of the funnel, St Walburga's Catholic Church on Burnley Road is just visible.
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Train between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel. - LYR00181
Aspinall 4-4-2, Church, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Congregational Church, Embankment, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Luddendenfoot, Minster, Passenger Train, Railway, Railway Carriages, Railway station, Railways, Sowerby Tunnel, Steam engine, Steam loco, Telegraph Pole
LYRS 1157 - Aspinall 4-4-2, Highflyer, No 737 heading a Leeds express with bogie stock carriages, as opposed to rigidly-mounted axles, on the embankment between Luddendenfoot and Sowerby Tunnel. Above the smoke the tower of the former Congregational Church on Burnley Road and to the left the spire of the now demolished St Mary's Church. Note the telegraph pole with multiple insulators to the left of the track.
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Sowerby Bridge West Signal Box. - LYR00143
Goods Depot, Goods Yard, LYR, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Locomotive depot, Railway, Railway Signals, Railway station, Railways, Signal box, Sowerby Bridge, Sowerby Bridge Station, Sowerby Tunnel, Station, Tunnel, Tunnel Portal
LYRS 8622 - 1967. Sowerby Bridge West Signal Box (front & door gable) and the east portal of Sowerby Tunnel. The box and the Goods and Loco Depots it controlled have all gone.
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Sowerby Bridge West Signal Box - LYR00142
Goods Depot, Goods Yard, LYR, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Locomotive depot, Railway, Railway Signals, Railway station, Railways, Signal box, Sowerby Bridge, Sowerby Bridge Station, Sowerby Tunnel, Station, Tunnel, Tunnel Portal
LYRS 4947 - Sowerby Bridge West Signal Box (front & door gable) and east portal of Sowerby Tunnel. The box controlled the Goods Yard and Loco Depot and all have now gone. Note two disc type ground signals in the foreground. The main signal in the background has a white sighting board. Diamond rail crossing at far end of signal box has double slips enabling travel between any connected parts of the track.
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Sowerby Bridge Station - West Signal Box. - LYR00141
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LYRS 3801 - West Signal Box on the Goods Yard and Loco Depot was situated near the east portal of Sowerby Tunnel. The ground floor contains the mechanism for connecting the levers to their respective points or signals. The Box and the depots have all gone.
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Sowerby Bridge - Panorama of Rail Track. - LYR00131
Buildings, Coaling Stage, Flour Mill, Goods Depot, Goods Yard, Grain Warehouse, LYR, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Locomotive depot, Mill, Mills, Railway, Railway Goods Yard, Railway Sidings, Railway Signals, Railway Wagons, Railway station, Railways, Semaphore Signals, Sidings, Signal box, Sowerby Bridge, Sowerby Bridge Station, Sowerby Tunnel, Station, Steam engine, Steam loco, Water Tank
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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