 Railway Ramblers gazetteer
See also the Railway Ramblers gazetteer - Kirklees : L&Y
Brockholes junction - Holmfirth |
 Back
Track : Paul Holroyd
website - www.vintagecarriagestrust.org
A 9-page feature on the Huddersfield & Sheffield
Junction Railway route to Penistone appears in Back Track Vol. 4
no. 2, March-April 1990 |
 Thurstonland
Bank Rd Bridge (13-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Underbridge - Thurstonland Bank Rd, Brockholes.
As ever, quite a bit to see if you look hard enough.There has been massive
building around and on the trackbed between Thongsbridge & Holmfirth.
See
Railway Memories 13 page 108 top photo and 107 bottom photo for
comparisons.
(Thongsbridge Yard & Station). |
 Brockholes
Cutting (13-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Between junction with Penistone Line & Thurstonland Bank Rd (above photo)
- building work in progress |
 Brockholes
A616 overbridge (06-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
A616 overbridge leaving Brockholes (Holmfirth is to
left of picture) |
 Viaduct abutement
(06-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Viaduct abutement over a tributary of the River Holme - Thongsbridge end
(Brockholes is to the left) |
 Springwood
Road (06-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Underbridge, Springwood Road, Thongsbridge |
 Springwood
Road (06-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Same bridge, Holmfirth side |
 Thongsbridge
Goods Yard (13-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Compare with shot p 108 Railway Memories 13. Trackbed more or less
followed line of estate road. |
 Thongsbridge
Goods yard (06-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Site of Thongsbridge Goods yard, station through the arch (Holmfirth is
to the right)
There has been massive building around and on the trackbed between Thongsbridge
& Holmfirth -
see Railway Memories 13 page 108 top photo and 107 bottom photo for
comparisons. |
Thongsbridge
station
 Opened 01-07-1850. Closed 02-11-1959.
Thongsbridge
station (06-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Remains of access staircase down to Thongsbridge station platform from
bridge in previous photo.
Substantial infill this side (compare previous
photo and you can see the infill) |
 Thongsbridge
station (06-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Brackets on bridge next to access staircase - did they hold 'Station'
sign? |
 Occupation
Bridge (13-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Between Thongsbridge & Holmfirth - lot of infilling. |
 Trackbed
(13-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Between Thongsbridge & Holmfirth looking towards Holmfirth |
 Trackbed
(13-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Old sleepers and gravestones dumped on the trackbed |
 Trackbed
(13-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
New building work over the track just outside Holmfirth |
 Trackbed
(13-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
From the same point looking back towards Thongsbridge |
Trackbed
(24-11-08) : Adam Sykes
 The trackbed through Berry Bank woods near Holmfirth
has been cleared...what for I do not know!
The
following 7 photo's where taken on 24/11/08 along a section of the line
between the former Thongsbridge Goods yard and Holmfirth. This is the
Thongsbridge end, you can see the top of one of the houses on the estate
built over the goods yard there in the late 1970's/early 1980s.
The level
of the cleared section clearly rises up here due to the presence of an infilled bridge between where I took the picture and the house. |
 Trackbed
(24-11-08) : Adam Sykes |
 Trackbed
(24-11-08) : Adam Sykes |
 Trackbed
(24-11-08) : Adam Sykes |
 Trackbed
(24-11-08) : Adam Sykes |
 Trackbed
(24-11-08) : Adam Sykes |
 Trackbed
(24-11-08) : Adam Sykes
Holmfirth end of the section where you can clearly
see a new house, which has been there about 3 years blocking the trackbed. |
Holmfirth Station
Opened 01-07-1850. 02-11-1959.
 Holmfirth
Station (06-01-07) : Andrew Stopford
Holmfirth Station from trackbed (now a Kingdom Hall car park) looking at
bufferstops
(about where pitched roof visible at low right) |
 Holmfirth
Station (October 1983 before the site was lost to development.) : Tony
Button
Dignified and elegant after a quarter of a century
of neglect' Looking south towards the end of the line.
All of the structure in the centre of this picture is lost and the
comparison with Andrew Stopford's more recent photo of the site,
certainly
paints a vivid picture of change. |
 Holmfirth Station (October 1983) : Tony
Button
A
general view of the site taken at the south end looking back along the
branch. Although the station house has been extended over the platform,
and the platform has been broken through for vehicle access, the station
can still be appreciated in it's entirety. Although the station house
remains, the rest of the structure was completely eliminated by the
construction of the religious centre that stands here today. |
 Holmfirth
Station (October 1983) : Tony Button
Shows the station goods shed and the line stretching
away towards Thongsbridge.
The goods shed is now a private house, with more recent development
claiming most of the remaining route between
the two stations. |
 Holmfirth
Station (October 1983) : Tony Button
Holmfirth station goods shed. |
 Holmfirth
Station (October 1983) : Tony Button
24 years after closure, ticket sales have dwindled! |
