Shipley station
 Shipley
stations map : David Webdale
Both GN & Midland stations shown.
See
also Shipley & Windhill GNR |
 Shipley
(c1909) : Malcolm Mallison
From the 1909 survey- Saltaire, Shipley (Midland & Great Northern
stations) Frizinghall. |
 British
Railways Illustrated : Paul Holroyd
British Railways Illustrated Vol 3 No 2 November 1993 includes an
11-page article on Shipley. Website -
www.vintagecarriagestrust.org |
  Shipley
Bradford Jct signal box : Dave Scrivens
Dave Scrivens in Shipley Bradford Jct signal box. |
   Shipley
Bradford Jct signal box : Dave Scrivens
Dave Scrivens in Shipley Bradford Jct signal box |
 Shipley
totem : Paul Holroyd
Totem from the disused platform 1 at Shipley, now on display at the
Ingrow Museum of Rail Travel. Website -
www.vintagecarriagestrust.org |
 Shipley. Crossleys scrap yard (c1980) : Bill Harland
The Class 040 shunter at Crossleys scrapyard. |
 Shipley. Crossleys scrap yard (c1980) : Bill Harland
The Class 31 arrives at Crossleys scrapyard. |
 Shipley
(c1960) :
Mark Neale
From one of our regular trainspotting locations (behind the Beehive,
now Shipley Pride) a Northbound passenger creates atmosphere.
|
 Shipley
(c1960) :
Mark Neale
Unknown `Jubilee` heads North rounding Shipley North curve. |
 Shipley
(c1960) :
Mark Neale
Fairburn tank 42093 heading towards Shipley, the location being mid
way between Guiseley junction and Thackley junction signal boxes.
The building in the background is Valley Scouring. |
 Shipley
(12-06-1949) :
Mark Neale
50621 on a Bradford local standing in Platform 4 at Shipley 12/6/49. |
Shipley Memories : Mark Neale
Mark Neale was born in Shipley in 1953 and very soon found
that Shipley railway station was an extremely interesting place to be,
situated as it is on a triangular junction.
Mark considers the period from when he became interested to the end of
steam in 1968 to be a very interesting period.
He cut his teeth at various places around the triangle at Shipley, but
soon found the delights of Manningham, Holbeck, Copley Hill, Neville Hill
and Skipton sheds. In fact most of the school holidays were spent in
Leeds, alternating between City and Central (for the White Rose) stations
and the outlying engine sheds.
Holidays spent within sight of the railway at Arnside, Deganwy and along
the Settle & Carlisle reinforced his early interest.
In addition excursions from Bradford (Exchange) to Belle Vue zoo, and one
to Whitley Bay taking in Darlington, Gateshead, and Newcastle enabled Mark
to underline new sections of his Ian Allan Combined Volume.
Towards the end of steam a couple of trips were made to York (via The
North Briton) were memorable for the long lines of locomotives awaiting
scrap.
In the last few months of steam, Mark was attending Saltaire County
Secondary School which had several classrooms and a playground bordering
onto the line between Shipley and Saltaire.
This resulted in Mark seeing lots of Scottish locomotives as they made
their way South on their last journey.
The French classroom offered the best view of the line and Mark recalls
recieving 500 lines from Mrs Matthews for leaping up and running to the
window as an A4 made a rare appearance on a Southbound Thames-Clyde
Express`.
As steam ended , Mark started to frequent the embryonic Worth Valley
Railway and worked on several steam locomotives such as the Crab 42700 and
Royal Scot 46115 `Scots Gurdsman` as ther arrived from service with BR. |
 Along
Familiar Lines : Book by Mark Neale
Mark
Neale's latest book
looks at the human story of railways in the Bradford area.
It includes stories from the days of construction, operation, and the
more modern era.
Included are features on the Aire Valley, Queensbury, Idle, and Yeadon
lines.
The book can be obtained from Saltaire Bookshop, Haworth Station,
Embsay Station, at £3.50.
Or direct from the publishers, City Gent, PO
56. Bradford BD13 3XR for £4 which includes postage. |
  Derailment
(c1949) :
Mark Neale
Here are a couple of pictures of a 1949 derailment of an express goods
on the former MR main line adjacent to Salts MIll, between Shipley and
Saltaire stations. Does anyone have further details? |
 Saltaire station
Saltaire
(c1909) : Malcolm Mallison
From the 1909 survey- Saltaire, Shipley (Midland & Great Northern
stations) Frizinghall.
|
 Saltaire
(c1960) :
Mark Neale
Fairburn tank 42139 heads South through Saltaire with a Skipton-Bradford
(Forster Square) local train.
The locomotive is a Manningham 55f
l allocation. |
 Saltaire
(c1960) :
Mark Neale
A `Flying Pig` Ivatt heads North through Saltaire with the inspection
salon attached.
Note the long platforms and Salts Mill chimney in the
distance. |
 Saltaire
(c1960) :
Mark Neale
The Prototype `Deltic`heads North between Shipley and Saltaire with
the test train, having turned on the triangle at Shipley.
In the
background is Saltaire County Secondary school where the contributor
often trainspotted from various classrooms.
From the French classroom
he was once given 500 lines -
"I must not trainspot during French" having leapt to the window
following the unusual sight of an A4 on a Southbound `Thames-Clyde
Express`. |
 Saltaire
(c1960) :
Mark Neale
Royal Scot 46145 `The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment (West Yorks) will
be heading into even worse weather conditions once it hits the Settle
& Carlisle with its `Thames-Clyde Express`. The location is Saltaire,
which was later to close and re-open in more recent years. |
/030%20Bingley_small.jpg) Bingley
station
Bingley station (1890) : Malcolm Mallison
6 inch maps from the 1890 survey. |
 Bingley
Station (c1903) : Malcolm Mallison
Bingley old station (a couple of hundred yards NW of
existing station, judging by position of 3 rise locks).
I recently saw a similar, if not identical photo, in an antique shop in
Cullingworth, described as last day of operation of old station
?/?/1903. |
  Bingley signal box : Dave Scrivens
Dave Scrivens in Bingley signal box. |
   Bingley signal box : Dave Scrivens
Bingley Signal Box Interior. |
   Bingley signal box : Dave Scrivens
Bingley Signal Box exterior. |
 Bingley (17-05-1982) : Mark Pennington
31161 enters Bingley on the first day of the Carlisle-Leeds
service, 17 May 1982. This service replaced the Glasgow-Nottingham
trains,
and was in some eyes the precursor to closure of the
Settle-Carlisle line. But it didn't work out that way.
It's hard to
conceive that there is now a road between the railway and the canal. |
 Station
masters house (n.d) : Malcolm Mallison
Station master’s house. |
 Bridge
across River Aire at Crossflatts(n.d) : Malcolm Mallison
From the time when Bingley to Keighley was quadruple track…
See
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW031373 |
/029%20Keighley_small.jpg) Keighley
station
Keighley Station map (1890) : Malcolm
Mallison
6 inch maps from the 1890 survey. |
 Keighley
Station (April 1987) : Michael Kaye
Keighley station yard.
See also Keighley GNR |
 Keighley
Station (02-06-1975) : Charles Boylan
A refurbished class 108 dmu in a short lived
livery at Keighley Station (still with canopies) dated unusually for me
2.06.1975. |
 Keighley
Station (1981) : Andrew Ripley
A view of Keighley, I think from 1981, before
they messed about with it. |
 Keighley
sheds (n.d) : Dave Walbank
Keighley shed as it was starting to be demolished. |
 Keighley
sheds (1952) : Dave Walbank
I've found the picture of keighley sheds taken in 1952 |
Keighley
memories : Dave Walbank
Maybe my friend maybe out there somewhere and he might
read this , I have'nt seen him since the mid
sixties now we grew up together in a village near Keighley called Oakworth.
We used to go all over as kids collecting engine numbers we were nuts on
steam engines Peter Carmen his name was.
He moved away in 1966 to Preston
with his folks to work on the Railways and I hav'nt seen him since.
He might
still work on the Railways, even my wife used to enjoy steam engines as a
child she used to go down the Worth Valley Railway and help paint stations
and clean engines.
Every Saturday my friend Peter and I would go to Leeds as
I said before, after school each day we used to run down to Keighley station
in time for the 4:10 pm train to come in the mail train, that always was a
Jubilee class engine they were special engines because they had names as
were the A1s',A3's,A4's Brittania,Clan,Royal Scot classes anything with
names.
In the school holidays we'd go down and spend the day trainspotting
in Keighley we'd have a term called cabbing where we used to stand on the
footplate if the driver let us, in our books we used to put a line under the
number and a little c at the side to say we had cabbed it. We went all over
Crewe Works, Doncaster Works, Lancaster station, Leeds,Keighley station and
Skipton.
I remember Dr Beeching, my friend and I used to hate him we used to
blame him for all the engines getting scrapped that was a sad site seeing
engines in shed sidings all rusty no running gear on waiting to be scrapped.
Diesels were'nt the same although we collected their numbers too I remember
visiting Toton just after it was built it was posh not like the smelly steam
sheds. I remember we could tell the class of engines by hearing their
whistles, the best Diesels at the time were the Deltics they had a wonderful
sound those and the whistlers the D200 class.
Even those have sadly gone now
those where brand new at the time along with the Peaks and the class47's.
I had a uncle Jack
his name was he worked all his life on the railway started off as a engine
cleaner worked his way up fireman and then to engine driver sadly he is
dead now has been for some 18 yrs he died in the cab of his Diesel engine as he
had parked it up at his depot.
When we'd meet we used to spend hours talkin'
about engines askin him what he had been drivin' and where he'd been. |
Cononley
 Cononley
(1975) : Keith Rose
Cononley Station in 1975. |
Skipton station
 Class
144 DMU (October 94) : Paul Holroyd website -
www.vintagecarriagestrust.org
Alexander Class 144 DMU in Regional Railways livery at Skipton, October
1994. |
 Class
144 DMU (October 94) : Paul Holroyd
Alexander Class 144 DMU at Skipton, October 1994. Note the maginifcently
restored platform canopies. |
 Class
144 DMU (October 94) : Paul Holroyd
Alexander Class 144 DMU at Skipton, October 1994. View taken looking south
towards Cononley. |
 Skipton
station (October 94) : Paul Holroyd
Platform 4 of Skipton station, looking north. October 1994. |
 Skipton
station (October 94) : Paul Holroyd
View taken from the top of the subway on platforms 3 and 4 at Skipton,
showing the immaculately restored platform canopy.
Note the signalbox |
Skipton to Grassington (Yorkshire Dales Railway)
 Grassington
(1972) : Keith Rose
Grassington Station in 1972.
The
Yorkshire Dales Railway was a single track branch line from Skipton via
Rylstone & Threshfield to Grassington.
Built & operated by the Midland railway Opened on 29th July 1902, closed
22nd September 1930. |
Skipton to Ingleton railway
 Gargrave
(c1971) : Keith Rose
Gargrave Signal Box in 1973. The "little" North Western Railway, later
taken over by the Midland Railway,
opened a line from Skipton to Ingleton
on 30 July 1849. Extended to Lancaster and Morecambe in 1850. |
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