Penistone Station - DNT00301
Chimneys, Factory Chimney, Foot Crossing, GCR, Gas Lamps, Goods Wagons, Great Central, Metaphore Signal, Passenger Train, Penistone Line, Platform, Railway, Railway Carriages, Railway signage, Railway station, Railway track, Signal, Signal Gantry, Steam engine, Steam locomotive, Train
The first station at Penistone on the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway’s (later Great Central) Sheffield – Manchester Woodhead line opened in 1845. When the L&YR line from Huddersfield to Penistone opened in 1850 it joined the Woodhead line at a junction east of the station with the result that L&YR trains had to reverse into the station. This persisted until 1874 when a new joint station was built with GCR and L&YR having their own platforms.
Penistone was also the terminus for trains from Doncaster via Barnsley connecting to the Woodhead line.
The GCR platforms closed in 1970 together with the Woodhead line to passenger and the line closed fully in 1981 and the tracks were subsequently lifted. The two remaining platforms for the Huddersfield – Sheffield line now sport just simple shelters for passengers.
The end of the GCR platforms are seen here in this image with GCR locos and carriages and in the background the Yorkshire Iron & Steel Works.
Any further details on the image will be gratefully received.
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Brockholes Station c1900. L&YR Huddersfield – Penistone Line - DNT00296
Crossover Line, Double Track, Fence, Foot bridge, Gas Lamps, L&YR, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Passenger Train, Passengers, Penistone Line, Platform, Platform Canopies, Railway, Railway signage, Railway station, Railway track, Station Buildings, Station Staff, Steam engine, Telegraph Pole, Train, railway workers
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
Chimneys, Crossover Line, Double Track, Fence, Gas Lamps, L&YR, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Passenger Train, Passengers, Penistone Line, Platform, Railway, Railway Carriages, Railway station, Railway track, Station Buildings, Station Notices, Steam engine, Train
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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Saddleworth Station. LNWR Huddersfield – Manchester Line - DNT00285
Foot Crossing, Huddersfield & Manchester Railway, LNWR, London & North Western Railway, Passenger Train, Passengers, Platform, Railway, Railway Signals, Railway station, Saddleworth, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Train
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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Diggle Station. LNWR Huddersfield – Manchester Line - DNT00284
Bridge, Bridges, Canopies, Diggle Station, Gas Lamp, Goods Wagons, Houses, Huddersfield & Manchester Railway, LNWR, Lamp, London & North Western Railway, Passenger Train, Platform, Railway, Railway Sidings, Railway station, Sidings, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Steam engine, Steam loco, Train, Tunnel Portal
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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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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Todmorden 2002 - CRN00413
Black Swan, Railway bridge, Todmorden, Tourist information centre, Train
North Street, note the train making its way over the bridge. There's an interesting mix of architectural styles in the buildings on the left.
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Lightcliffe Station, Nr. Halifax - DNT00267
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The station on the Halifax –Bradford line opened at the same time as the line in August 1850. The station was closed in 1965.
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Laisterdyke Station, Bradford - DNT00231
Bradford, Bridge, Carriages, Cutting, Footbridge, GNR, Great Northern Railway, Island Platform, Passenger Train, Places, Platform, Railway, Railway Carriages, Railway junction, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Steam Loco, Steam engine, Train, Water Crane
On the ‘short line’ between Bradford & Leeds, built by the Leeds Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway, which opened in 1854 and was operated from the start by the Great Northern Railway who subsequently acquired it. The station opened with the line 1854 and was closed in 1966. It was a junction station as Leeds traffic from Halifax and the west avoiding Bradford on the Bowling curve joined the Bradford- Leeds line here and also just east of the station the Bradford-Wakefield Westgate line branched off, both those lines now long closed.
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Horton Junction, Bradford - DNT00228
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A passenger service approaching Bradford on the GNR’s Queensbury line with the branch to City Roads Goods which had opened in 1876 joining on the right. Horton Park Station is just visible beyond the last carriage, this had opened in 1880 and was closed in 1952. The junction and the City Road Branch were closed in 1972.
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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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Pudsey Low Town Station - DNT00163
Bridge, Chimney, Chimneys, Footbridge, GNR, Great Nothern Railway, Leeds, Passengers, Platform, Pudsey, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Signals, Station, Station Building, Station Canopies, Station Platform, Station Staff, Steam engine, Train
In 1878 a branch from Stanningley on the GNR Leeds-Bradford ‘short line was opened up to Pudsey Greenside with a station here. Then in 1893 a curve from Bramley to the Pudsey Branch was constructed which was then extended to Cutlers Junction at Laisterdyke via Dudley Hill creating both the Pudsey Loop and at Dudley Hill a connection to Low Moor and the Spen Valley. The branch from Stanningley was disconnected becoming a siding for Stanningley.
the station closed in 1964 and the loop the following year once again leaving Pudsey without a railway in the town although a new station named New Pudsey was opened by BR in 1967 on the main Leeds-Bradford line but a mile from the town.
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Stanningley Station - DNT00161
Chimney, Chimneys, GNR, Great Nothern Railway, Leeds, Noticeboard, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Signal box, Stanningley, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Train
The station on the GNR ‘short line’ between Leeds Central and Bradford Exchange had opened at the same time as the line in 1854. In 1878 a single track branch was opened from Stanningley to Pudsey but this was disconnected at Pudsey in 1893 when the Pudsey loop line opened. The station closed in 1965.
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Bramley Station, Leeds 1966 - DNT00159
Bramley, Chimney, Chimneys, Foot Crossing, GNR, Gas Lamp, Great Nothern Railway, Island Platform, Lamp, Leeds, Passenger Train, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Station Signage, Steam engine, Train, Water Tower
On the GNR ‘short line’ from Leeds Central to Bradford the station opened with the line in 1854. To the west of the station there was the junction with the Pudsey loop line which had opened in 1893 and closed in 1965. Bramley station closed in 1966 about the time of this photo and the buildings were demolished; a new station with bus stop shelters opened in 1983.
The photo is taken from a footbridge which connected the two platforms.
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Ardsley Station - DNT00156
Ardsley, Bridges, Carriages, Chimney, Chimneys, GNR, Gas Lamp, Great Nothern Railway, Leeds, Level Crossing, Passengers, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Semaphore Signals, Signal Gantry, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Station Staff, Telegraph Pole, Train
An intermediate station on the Bradford, Wakefield & Leeds Railway between Leeds and Wakefield which opened in 1857 and became part of the GNR network in 1865. The station closed in 1964.
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Wetherby Station - DNT00152
Bridge, Footbridge, Lamp, Leeds, NER, North Eastern Railway, Passengers, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Train, Wetherby
Seen here early 20th century on the NER’s Cross Gates – Wetherby line. This is the second station in Wetherby the first having been on the Church Fenton- Harrogate line but when the line from Cross Gates opened in 1876 it’s junction with the Harrogate line was beyond the station meaning that Leeds – Harrogate services by-passed the station. Consequently this new station was built but not until 1902 and it closed with the line in 1964.
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Osmondthorpe Station, Leeds - DNT00144
Houses, Leeds, NER, North Eastern Railway, Osmondthorpe, Passenger Train, Passengers, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Steam engine, Train
The station, or probably a halt, on the Leeds Selby and York line was opened in 1930 by the LNER between Marsh Lane and Cross Gates stations following construction of a large housing estate. It was closed in 1960. The station is seen here possibly pre-World War II but certainly pre-nationalisation in 1948.
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New Station, Leeds - DNT00133
Adverts, Island Platform, Leeds, NER, New Station, North Eastern Railway, Passenger Train, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Train, Train Shed
A North Eastern Railway Leeds to Edinburgh service about to depart for York from New Station. The roof sign with its back to the station advertising Waddington Pianos was on New Station Street, off Boar Lane, which was the access to the station from the city up until 1938 when the great Art Deco concourse we see today was built. In the mid-1930s the station was re-named Leeds City South, usually just known as City Station. Today as the only station in the city centre, and completely re-built, it is just Leeds Station.
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Leeds New Station Train Shed - DNT00132
Island Platform, LNWR, Leeds, NER, New Station, North Eastern Railway, Passenger Train, Platform, Railway, Railway station, Railways, Station, Station Building, Station Platform, Train, Train Shed
Seen here late 19th or early 20th century looking westwards with an NER train on the right. This view and the bridge across the lines remained little changed until into the second half of the 20th century. The platform numbering is not sequential. The platforms on the left which are the farthest from the ticket barriers read from left to right 7 and 6 but the two centre platforms to their right, nearer to the barriers, are 9 and 8! Comments welcome.
In the mid-1930s the station was re-named Leeds City South and with the closure of Central and Wellington Stations in the late 1960s the overall reduced passenger services, resulting from the closure of lines and stations, were concentrated here and in 1967 it was partly re-developed. In 2002 it was completely re-built and the number of platforms increased from 12 to 17. Today it is the second busiest station outside London.
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Boys - ALC03366
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Richard Shepherd - ALC03325
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Probably taken in the early 1960s.
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Hebden Bridge Station by A. F. Tait - ALC00826
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1845, 1840s
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Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean - ALC00812
Blake Dean, Engine, Places, Railway, Railways, Train, Trestle Bridge, Walshaw Dean
"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just emerging from the wooded hillside, and he cannot help thinking that the vandals are on us again. But we shall have to explain that this is the temporary tramway, recently laid down by Mr. Tempest, contractor for the new reservoirs at Walshaw Dean, now in the course of construction by the Halifax Corporation. The line commences on the hillside near Whitehill Nook, and about five minutes walk from the village of Heptonstall, where quite a village of workmen's huts had sprung up, with Mission Church, Reading Room, etc., and known by the appropriate name of Dawson City, after its more distinguished prototype in Alaska. The line is about five or six miles long, and was constructed for the purpose of conveying material required in the construction of the waterworks. A little farther on the tourist is again brought to a standstill to admire the beautiful trestle bridge, which at this point carries the tramway across the valley. The bridge is 590 feet long and 105 feet high, and was constructed by Messrs. G. H. Greenwood & Co., Joiners and Builders, Hebden Bridge. After crossing the valley the tramway is cut across the moor direct to the works."
Extracts from "Guide to Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge & Neighbourhood including Cragg Valley, Colden Valley and Heptonstall" [ref S3/2]
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Charlestown - Whiteley Arches - ALC00467
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Whiteley Arches prior to the replacement of the Bow String Bridge in 1939.
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Mytholmroyd - West bound train c1908 - ALC00457
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A westbound train, headed by an Aspinall 4-4-2, departing from Mytholmroyd Station pre-First World War. It is running on the 'slow' lines which would have been unusual for an express train, possibly due to the 'fast' line being recently re-ballasted. The track was quadrupled over this section about 1906 but has now reverted to double track. The 'up' platform and signal box visible to the left of the engine with the unusual storeyed station building opposite.
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