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From Battersby, goods trains also ran south to Ingleby where a cable pulley system raised wagons up a steep incline, and across the North York Moors to iron ore workings at Rosedale and Farndale. Between Glaisdale and Lealholm , work was begun by the railway engineer John Waddell on a branch across the North York Moors , to make the most of the ...
The line lost its local passenger services in July 1965 and despite Low Moor being on a line that would stay open serving trains between Halifax and Bradford, it too closed completely. [ note 4 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the 1980s, the West Riding Transport Museum , had intended to electrify the line between Low Moor and Heckmondwike to 1,500 volt ...
Railways of the North York Moors : a pictorial history. Clapham: Dalesman Books. ISBN 0852067313. Williams, Michael Aufrère (2010), 'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find': A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871–1958 (M.A. thesis), University of York
Dewsbury Savile Town - The Midland intended this to be a passenger station (Dewsbury's fourth passenger station) and that the line would extend northwards towards Low Moor and Bradford. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] It opened in 1906 and closed in December 1950 - it was the last of the four goods stations serving Dewsbury, and the first to be closed.
The first section of line between Huddersfield and Penistone was opened on 1 July 1850 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR). From the joint L&YR/London and North Western Railway Huddersfield station, trains ran south to Springwood Junction (south of Huddersfield) on the London and North Western Railway Leeds–Manchester main line, where the L&YR line began; from there the route was ...
Y&NM extended the line to Altofts Junction in 1840 to meet the new North Midland Railway as part of a new route from York to London St Pancras via Normanton, Swinton, Chesterfield and Derby. [3] Stations on this section were Milford (closed 1904), Monk Fryston (closed 1959) and Burton Salmon (also closed in 1959), where the present route ...
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The first section of this opened in May 2008 [4] between Station Road in Meltham and Huddersfield Road (B6108). [5] In 2012, the Friends of Beaumont Park were awarded £49,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out restoration of the section of track bed which ran along the lower end of the park and to turn it into a heritage trail. The ...