Milner
Royd Junction
 Milner
Royd Junction (23-04-85) : Michael Kaye
We are approaching Milner Royd Junction on the 'Up
line' from Halifax,
the lines coming in from the left are from Elland & Greetland, 23rd April
1985. |
 Calder
valley Milner Royd junction signal box 18-03-06 : Alan S Bagot
Happily, not yet lost.
Situated near Sowerby Bridge on the junction of the L & Y Halifax line. |
 Calder
valley Milner Royd junction signal box 18-03-06 : Alan S Bagot
Interior. |
 Calder
valley Milner Royd junction signal box 18-03-06 : Alan S Bagot
Interior. |
 Copley
Opened 11-1855. Closed 20-07-1931.
Copley
station entrance (13-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
On the Copley - Low Moor line between Halifax & Sowerby
Bridge. |
/002%20Greetland_small.jpg) Greetland
Opened 07-1844. Closed 08-09-1962.
Greetland map (1890) : Malcolm Mallison
6 inch maps from the 1890 survey. |
 Greetland : Bernard Coomber
Class 8F at Greetland with coal empties for Healey Mills flat top
Greetland signal box in the background. |
Shaw Syke station
Opened 1844. Closed ?
 Shaw Syke goods (16-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
Built on the south side of Halifax station on the
L&Y Sowerby Bridge, Halifax & Bradford line.
Opened by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1844. |
 Shaw Syke goods (16-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
The old Shaw Syke goods/parcels station which
looks like its about to fall down or be pushed! |
 Shaw Syke
goods (04-03-10) : David Taylor
Following site clearance the GNR warehouse is
visible in the distance. See next photo.
|
 GNR
warehouse (04-03-10) : David Taylor
GNR warehouse west elevation.
|
_small.jpg) _small.jpg) Shaw Syke
goods (04-03-10) : David Taylor
Yesterday I noticed that work seemed to have
started on clearing the site of the Shaw Syke Goods Yard for the
proposed car park which was announced last year. |
_small.jpg) _small.jpg) Shaw Syke
goods (04-03-10) : David Taylor
I went down today with my camera and they are well
on with clearing the site of the sidings and yard, sets piled up, but
the good news is the contractor told me the building has very recently
been Listed and so they cannot now demolish as originally intended. |
_small.jpg) _small.jpg) Shaw Syke
goods (27-03-11) : David Taylor
Sorry to say that part of the roof has now
collapsed. It was listed last year shortly before proposed demolition
but nonetheless I doubt there will be the money to repair it. It's now
owned by the Eureka, the National Children's Museum. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (18-05-11) : Michael Bradley
Article from the Halifax Courier Wednesday 18th
May 2011 regarding the current state of the former working horse museum. |
Shaw Syke goods (09-03-10) : Michael
Bradley
South Parade Goods yard Halifax, formerly the
“Working at Horses Museum”. The site was quite extensive survival of
railway infrastructure up to the past couple of years when the two road
open good shed was pulled down for safety reasons. The good shed itself
was of Lancashire and Yorkshire origin and was connected up to the sole
remaining siding which runs alongside in the yard to the Husnlet 0-4-0
and MK 2 coach which rests as a picnic and lunch are for visitors to
Eureka.
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
The Lancashire and Yorkshire good shed formerly
the "Horses at Work Museum" in Halifax. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
View of the building from the water lane side
pointing north towards the railway station. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
A view of the entrance to the good shed with the
intact railway infrastructure before the contractors arrived on site. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
View of the entrance with the track work removed. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
View of the entrance with the track work removed
up to approximately 1.5m from the building. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
A close up shot. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
The sole remaining siding (now filled in) i
believe |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
The three way point that connected once all three
sidings together, one of the last few photographs of this in place. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
The tracked where the point which joined the shed
road to the sidings has now been cut short. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
Track removal in progress with the gate posts
which formed a gate which ran alongside the open good shed can still be
seen. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
The view from the 4 foot standing where the good
shed road once was. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
Another photo of the point underneath mud and
dirt. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
View of the yard |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
Another view of the yard looking in the direction
of water lane and the site of Shaw Syke station. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (09-03-10) : Michael Bradley
The rest of the point is hidden in the undergrowth
which links to the siding which the Hunslet 0-4-0 and Mark 2 coach stand
one. |
  Shaw Syke
goods (06-04-11) : Michael Bradley
General views of the goods shed. |
  Shaw Syke
goods (06-04-11) : Michael Bradley
Close ups of the collapsed roof. |
 Shaw Syke
goods (06-04-11) : Michael Bradley
A rare view of the interior. |
  Shaw Syke
goods (06-04-11) : Michael Bradley
Maps from the late 19th century. See old maps here
- www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html |
Halifax Old Station
Opened 1855.
 Halifax
Station (11-81, 08-82) : Dave Heatley
B&W photo taken in Nov ’81 – GN platform being demolished and track
recently lifted into freight sidings.
Second photo taken in Aug 1982 showing the bus museum parked out in the
open before moving to Low Moor. |
 Halifax
Town Crier Newspaper article
www.halifaxuk.co.uk |
 Halifax
Station (1981) : Dave Heatley
Class25 25125 dragging a failed DMU to Bradford – Hammond St Depot
perhaps. |
 Halifax
Station (16-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
Shot of Halifax Station & disused platforms.
|
Coal
drops facing south (30-04-06) : David Webdale
 Next
to the existing Halifax Old station these massive coal drops.
The stub of the viaduct to North bridge to the left of coal drops.
The still in use viaduct leading off to Beacon Hill on the far left.
Note : Brandon Hatzer
The coal drops in Halifax are listed Grade II
http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/environment/conservation/listedbuildings/
The description reads - Coal drops. 1874. Built for the Ovenden and
Halifax Junction Railway Co. Rock-faced ashlar with wooden bunkers. 15
wooden bunkers each supported between stone piers and to the north an
open shed, with beyond a battered wall topped with a parapet. These coal
drops are built into the slopping hillside. Each wooden bunker has 2
metal doors which were raised on an iron ratchet geared pulley system.
This is a rare and large scale example of railway coaldrops.
I understand if you've already seen this or already know this but
hearing it from my Council pretty much asserts they are listed, and so
they should be! Better than being knocked down or being converted into
flats like every other memory! |
 Coal
drops building facing west 22-04-06 : David Webdale
Little building survives in the corner of the car
park above the coal drops.
|
Hipperholme station
Opened
17-08-1850. Closed 08-06-1953. Freight 1966.
 Hipperholme
station (18-08-12) : David Webdale
The site of Hipperholme station, photographed from
Station road bridge facing east.
The bridge parapets here are massive metal things about 10 feet high. I
had to stand on the bonnet of my van to get this photo. |
/010%20Lightcliffe_small.jpg) Lightcliffe station
Opened
17-08-1850. Closed 14-06-1965.
Lightcliffe station map (1890) : Malcolm Mallison
6 inch maps from the 1890 survey. |
 Lightcliffe
station (1920s) : Charles Boylan
Postcard by the long defunct firm of Lilywhite of Lightcliffe station. I
purchased this in 1966 when Lightcliffe station was being demolished
from the newsagents across the road from the station. The card from
inspection appears to date from early LMS days probably in the 1920's. |
 Lightcliffe
station newspaper cutting (10_06-1965) : Charles Boylan
This is a news cutting from the Halifax Courier about the closure of
Lightcliffe Station and the departure of the last train on Saturday 10th
June 1965.
It appeared in a following weeks edition. |
Lightcliffe signal box (09-1974) : Charles Boylan
   I
have just discovered these pictures I took of Lightcliffe signalbox in
September 1974 after its closure.
I don't know its closure date but it
was open in July 1970 when I was on the Bradford-Poole train which was
stopped there by a preceding train (How cruel to have to spend 5 minutes
at the site of your demolished local station!). The signal posts had
already been removed and the signal box was demolished shortly
afterwards. It also had been repainted just a few years previously. The pictures are taken
on an "instamatic" and transferred from slides. |
Lightcliffe station (18-08-12) : David
Webdale
 Photographed
from Coach road bridge facing west, just visible behind the footbridge
in the above postcard picture.
The house roof just visible on the right behind the trees is on Park
close, this was the site of the goods yard. Incidentally, a few hundred
yards further down Coach road was Crow Nest house where Titus Salt
lived. Tutus was instrumental in the building of a station here & would
bring his workers to Lightcliffe for a day in the country. Apparently
Crow Nest house was used for Italian prisoners of war back in the 1940s. |
 Lightcliffe
station entrance (18-08-12) : David Webdale
Facing west down Wakefield road, the passenger entrance to the station
is just visible on the left, see close up next photo. Further down on
the left,
by the wooden fencing, is the entrance to Park close built on the site
of the goods yard & that's my missus hiding behind that post. |
 Lightcliffe
station entrance (13-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
On the Copley - Low Moor line.
Lightcliffe Station entrance from Wakefield Road (almost opposite the
Post Office)
Note :
David Webdale
When I was there, in August 2012, I could not see a post office,
just some boarded up buildings, something else that's become lost. |
 Halifax
Lightcliffe handbill (1958) : Charles Boylan
A very tatty handbill I found when emptying my parents house which
I scanned before it completely disintegrates. |
/10%20footbridge%20n%20east_small.jpg) Footbridge
facing N East (28-03-04) David Webdale
Taken from a footbridge over the Halifax - Bradford line, facing toward Wyke & Norwood Green station.
The Pickle Bridge line branched off to the right, at the point where the
sun goes into shadow, spooky. see photo below. |
Pickle Bridge station
(Junction House) See
Pickle Bridge line
/11%20junction%20house%20east_small.jpg) Opened
17-08-1850. Renamed Wke station 1852. Closed 1896 & new station opened
at Wyke & Norwood Green.
Junction House facing East (28-03-04) David Webdale
Don't know much about this building, apparently it was the original
Pickle bridge station,
situated next to the junction. |
/12%20junction%20house%20s%20west_small.jpg) Junction
House facing S West (28-03-04) David Webdale
View from Station road. Junction House
visible on the right.
Footbridge in the distance. |
/009%20Wike_small.jpg) Wyke & Norwood Green
Opened
1896. Closed 09-1953.
Wyke station map (1890) : Malcolm Mallison
6 inch maps from the 1890 survey. |
/13%20wyke%20&%20norwood%20green%20north_small.jpg) Wyke
& Norwood Green North (28-03-04) : David Webdale
Stone buildings & platforms,
access from Station road. Behind was a covered footbridge leading down to both platforms.
From old photos I've seen it looks as though the booking office was
situated at road level directly above the tracks. |
Low
Moor
Opened 18-07-1848. Closed 14-06-1965. Freight 1967.
The new Low Moor station (22-03-16) : Paul Holroyd
 The
new Low Moor station taking shape Tuesday 22 March 2016. The new station
is built to the west of the old station site. The new station is built
to the west of the Cleckheaton Road bridge, adjacent to the where top of
the triangular railway junction to Cleckheaton used to be. In this photo
the Cleckheaton Road bridge is just out of shot – to the left of the
photo. You can see the Spen Valley Greenway footpath behind the green
fence, between the blue vehicle and the lift shaft for the new station.
The building with the yellow doors in the centre of the photo used to
house the buses and trolleybuses of the ill-fated Transperience visitor
attraction. |
 The
new Low Moor station (22-03-16) : Paul Holroyd
The new Low Moor station taking shape Tuesday 22
March 2016. |
 The
new Low Moor station (22-03-16) : Paul Holroyd
The new Low Moor station taking shape Tuesday 22
March 2016. |
 The
new Low Moor station (22-03-16) : Paul Holroyd
Looking towards Halifax. You can see the Spen Valley Greenway footpath
in front of the green fence, curving round towards Clecheaton.
The Cleckheaton Road bridge is out of camera shot, just to the right of
the photo. |
 The
new Low Moor station (22-03-16) : Paul Holroyd
A Class 158 DMU passes under the Cleckheaton Road bridge on its way to
Halifax. |
  The
new Low Moor station (22-03-16) : Paul Holroyd
Low Moor leaflets |
  Transperience (07-10-84) : Paul Holroyd
Before the ill-fated Transperience opened at Low Moor.
The West
Yorkshire Transport Museum Trust held its first public open day
at the former Ludlam Street bus garage in Bradford on 7th October 1984. |
 Low
Moor station sign (18-02 10) : Paul Holroyd
Original sign from Low Moor station. Photographed 18 Feb 2010 at
Bradford Industrial Museum, Moorside Mills. |
 Telegraph
& Argus The re opening of Low Moor station.
Plans to build a new rail station in south Bradford appear to have
escaped Government spending cuts. Fears had been growing
for the future of Low Moor station amid a backdrop of Department for
Transport funding reductions.
Click here to see article. |
Telegraph
& Argus (19-05-13) : c/o Paul Holroyd
Bradford's Low Moor railway station project
sidelined.
Click here to see article. |
 Halifax,
Queensbury, Low Moor & Wyke map (1843) : John Sutcliffe
One inch to the mile map showing Sowerby Bridge in the west and Dewsbury
in the east. Published by Col. Colby dated 1843.
(This file size is about 1.4 meg, so it may take a while to download) |
Great Northern Railway Low Moor to Dudley
Hill : Bob Cockcroft
Note :
The goods shed is an unusual GN building made of stone in about 1892
when the Dudley Hill line was opened. The building is on two levels with
storage and some access at the basement level. The rail level was on the
first floor and was accessed by an inclined road in to the goods yard.
It was never greatly used as a railway site and most local traders were
based in the much older LY facility adjacently to it. No trace remains
of the LY facilities, but the GN goods depot is occupied by a precision
carpenter who builds staircases and large wooden constructions for older
buildings as well as for new using pretty fancy technology. The GN goods
shed is in very good condition. The only other surviving building is the
water meter shed in the yard entrance, it may also have included gas
access as well. The signal box went a long time ago (possibly not long
after the time the main line was lifted in 1917), the weighbridge some
time later (maybe when the yard became disused - accounts vary between
1921 and 1933) and the stable, unusually T shaped, some time between
1948 and 1980. |
 2-6-4
Tank : Bernard Coomber
2-6-4 Tank loco heads for Halifax out of Low Moor. |
 2-6-4
Tank : Bernard Coomber
2-6-4 Tank loco stood at Low Moor west box. |
 Austerity
: Bernard Coomber
Austerity class loco shunts empty carriage stock
on Low Moor triangle. |
 Jubilee
: Bernard Coomber
Jubilee class No 45565 'Victoria' at Low Moor MPD. |
 2-6-4
Tank : Bernard Coomber
Tank loco 2-6-4 with a Bradford bound local at Low
Moor. |
 2-6-4
Tank : Bernard Coomber
Tank loco 2-6-4 approaching Low Moor station bound
for Halifax on a local stopper. |
 Low
Moor shed (25-04-1962) : Bernard Coomber
collection
Photo taken 25 April 1962 this shot is taken of ex LNER B1 class loco
number 61386 standing outside Low Moor shed. |
 Low
Moor (13-05-1962) : Bernard Coomber
collection
Photo taken 13 May 1962 showing a Bradford bound double-headed excursion
train approaching Low Moor station,
the two loco's are ex LMS jubilee class numbers 45562 'Alberta' leading
45695 'Minotaur'. |
 Transperience
27 May 2006 : Paul Holroyd see
Transperience
The remains of Transperience - West Yorkshire Transport Discovery Park.
The yellow building with the dome used to be the Exploratory. Behind the
former Transperience Transport Discovery Park, a frequent train service
still operates over the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Bradford to
Halifax route. |
 Transperience
27 May 2006 : Paul Holroyd
The remains of Transperience.
The Bradford to Halifax main line is at the front of the picture.
You can just make out the Transperience tram line curving away towards
Cleckheaton.
The Exploratory building is to the right of the picture, hidden by the
trees. |
 Low
Moor Cleckheaton line 21-08-83 Alan S Bagot
The line curves round from Low Moor towards
Cleckheaton. |
 Low
Moor bridge : David Walbank
A bridge that stands in the middle of a field were Low Moor
was. |
 Low
Moor No2 west box (28-08-83) Alan S Bagot / Paul Holroyd
During Autumn 1961 the Heckmondwike-Low Moor route was regularly used by
London to Leeds and Harrogate trains which were diverted because of
engineering work. On 8th October 1961 Deltic diesel no. D 9009 Alycidon
worked the 10.10 Leeds – King’s Cross over the route.29th October 1961 saw Deltic diesel no. D 9012
Crepello, class A4 pacific no. 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower, B1 no 61016
Inyala and B1 no 61135 traverse the route. |
 Low
Moor No 2 Signalbox
(25-04-88) : Michael Kaye see Cabride
We are on the 'Up' line heading towards Halifax and are about to pass
Low Moor No; 2 Signalbox, the bridge was once a level crossing and the
station was located here to..the line on the left was the remains of a
passenger loop and of course it once took you to Thornhill, 25th April
1988 |
 Low
Moor signal box boards : Paul Holroyd 31-01-07
website - www.vintagecarriagestrust.org
Boards from Low Moor No 2 East and No 5 signal boxes,
currently on display in the Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow near Keighley.
Click here to see selection of
railway tickets & handbills. |
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