LYRS 6068 - 1963. The 'Up' Manchester platform and timber buildings a year after the station closed. The platform had been accessed from the Leeds platform by a footbridge which is just visible on the left.
Row of cottages forming house-over-house dwellings, mid C19. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 6 bays. 1st 2 bays to street are 3-storey with basement, the rest are 2 storeys with basement. Bays 1 to 4 under a different roof line from bays…
Row of cottages forming house-over-house dwellings, mid C19. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 6 bays. 1st 2 bays to street are 3-storey with basement, the rest are 2 storeys with basement. Bays 1 to 4 under a different roof line from bays…
Also known as Nos. 2 to 20 (even) River Street. Row of single bay cottages, early C19. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys to road, 4 and 5 storeys to rear (River Street): over dwellings. Single-bay dwellings with 2-light sashes…
The station on the Leeds & Bradford Railway’s Aire Valley Line opened in July 1846 a few weeks after the line. This station was replaced in 1900 by the one seen here when the line was widened to four tracks. The station closed in 1965 but a new…
The station seen here looking very derelict. Originally just Armley it was the first station out of Leeds on the Bradford & Leeds Railway which opened via the Aire Valley in 1846 quickly being acquired by the MR. BR changed its name to Armley Canal…
The station seen here in MR days is on the MR’s Shipley – Guiseley line and opened at the same time as the line in 1876 and was closed in 1953 and the buildings subsequently demolished. An unstaffed station was re-opened in 1973 and the line, now…
The station on the MR’s Shipley – Guiseley line opened at the same time as the line in 1876 and was closed in 1953 and the buildings subsequently demolished. An unstaffed station was re-opened in 1973 and the line, now electrified but reduced to…
The old stone bridge here was submerged by the Wakefield Corporation Reservoir which was completed in 1956. At the West Riding Quarter Sessions in Pontefract in 1787 a gratuity of £50 was granted towards the bridge and in 1792 it was granted a…
The station seen here is Bingley’s second station and was opened in 1892 replacing the earlier station which was a little to the west near the Three Rise Locks on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. It remains open.
The junction of Keighley Road and Birchcliffe Road. Originally Keighley Road was much closer to Lees Yard, now the site of Hebden bridge’s weekly markets. A house, Hollins Place, which was also a fish and chip shop, was demolished to improve the…
An intermediate station on the MR’s Ilkley – Skipton line it opened with the line in 1888. The great popularity of Bolton Abbey made it a very busy station particularly in summer with excursion trains of several railway companies; it was also the…
On the 'short line' from Bradford to Leeds Central Station opened in 1854 by the Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway which was acquired by the GNR in 1865. The station closed in 1966 and the buildings were demolished; a new station with bus…