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Holmfield to St Pauls (Halifax high level railway)
1890 - 1960
Joint Great Northern & Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway        Page 2 of  2
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The Route Holmfield to St Pauls



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Pellon
Map 2  Pellon (Brackenbed Lane - St Pauls Station)
Pellon  Map (1931) : Malcolm Mallison
From the Six inch map 1931 Survey.
Pellon lane overbridge (c1963) : Richard Barnes © copyright on all Richard Barnes Photographs.
Approach to Pellon station, facing towards Queens Road. The overbridge is Pellon Lane. (Photo's taken a week after track was lifted)
Trackbed (c1963) : Richard Barnes
Same location as previous but facing towards Wheatley.
Note how steeply the trackbed falls away below the level of the headshunt where I was standing.
Pellon lane overbridge (gas pipe overbridge) (02-06) Matt C
Pellon lane overbridge (gas pipe overbridge) (22-04-06) : David Webdale
Approach to Pellon station. Gas pipe bridge nearest camera complete with smoke deflectors.
Fenced off area under the bridge, used for storage by firm on the site of the Pellon station.
Pellon lane overbridge  (13-09-10) : David Marshall
Pellon lane overbridge  (13-09-10) : David Marshall
Pellon lane overbridge (gas pipe overbridge) facing north (22-04-06) : David Webdale
Facing back the other way, view of the bridge from road level.

Pellon station
Opened 05-09-1890. Closed 31-12-1916. Freight 27-06-1960

Pellon station entrance (22-04-06) : David Webdale
Entrance to the station from road level, the booking office was situated where those garages are now.
Stone sets still remain along the front of the garages.
Pellon station entrance (02-01-09) : David Webdale
Three years on from the above photo. Garages removed to reveal bricked up entrance at road level.
Pellon station (22-04-06) : David Webdale
Access from road level was via steps leading down from the back of those garages (now gone)
through that bricked up section of wall with the graffiti, to an island platform.
Pellon goods yard facing west (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Taken from a stairway leading up to some flats off Battinson road.
Bricked up bridge visible in the corner, houses in background are on Dyson road.
Pellon goods yard facing north (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Stood on top of the bricked up bridge on the corner of Dyson & Battinson road.
Dyson road bridge facing east (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Corner of Dyson & Battinson road. Iron bridge & in the background the flats I mentioned.
Battinson road facing south (30-04-06) : David Webdale
The other side of the road. The road running along the top is Ramsgate.
Hanson lane facing north (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Facing back towards the bridge under Battinson road. Looking over the old bridge parapet on the corner of Ramsgate & Hanson lane.
The cutting filled in & used as gardens along here.
Hanson lane facing west (30-04-06) : David Webdale
View of the well kept bridge parapet I was looking over in previous photo.
Hanson lane facing south (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Taken from the other side of the road, cutting filled in & new houses built along the old formation.
Gibbet street facing west (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Facing up Gibbet street. Bridge walls clearly visible on both sides. The guy in the approaching red car, stopped when he saw my camera,
waited a couple of minutes, reversed & disappeared down a side street, maybe he's a bit shy.
Hopwood lane facing west (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Next street along towards St Pauls is another rusty Iron bridge.
Hopwood lane facing south (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Opposite side of the road, the site of St Pauls station yard just the other side of the bridge. Kingston Close built on the site now.
Yard  included a signal box & turntable. The formation of the line clearly visible on Google earth.

St Pauls station
Opened 05-09-1890. Closed 31-12-1916. Freight 27-06-1960

St Pauls station Parkinson lane facing west (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Taken from the corner of Queens road & Parkinson lane. The site of St Pauls station, just over that wall.
Parkinson lane facing north (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Looking over the wall, the site of St Pauls station, Aspinal street in the background. Bits of retaining wall still in evidence.
Aspinal street facing north (30-04-06) : David Webdale
Thought I'd better take a photo of these neglected but solid old houses.
Now on death row, soon to be replaced with concrete & tacky artificial stone no doubt.

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