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Railways & Railway stations
This SideTrack presents some details of the Railways and Railway Stations which served – and still serve – the Calderdale district.
| General Points |
The line from Manchester, through the Calder Valley, to Normanton (near Wakefield), is one of the oldest passenger lines in Britain, having been approved by Parliament in 1836, and the Halifax & Calderdale district is well-supported by the railway service.
In 1963, a report entitled The Reshaping of British Railways, produced by chairman Dr Richard Beeching, signalled the closure of a quarter of the country's rail lines and 2,128 stations in addition to the scrapping of 67,700 jobs
| Railway Stations |
Bailiff Bridge Railway Station Brighouse (for Bradford) Railway Station Brighouse (for Rastrick) Railway Station Brighouse Clifton Road Railway Station Brighouse Railway Station Charlestown Railway Station Clifton Road Railway Station Cockden Railway Station Cooper Bridge Railway Station Copley Railway Station Cornholme Railway Station Eastwood Railway Station Elland Railway Station Greetland Railway Station Halifax Old Railway Station Halifax Railway Station Hebden Bridge Railway Station Hipperholme Railway Station Holme Railway Station Holmfield Railway Station Holywell Brook Railway Station Joint Railway Station, Halifax Lightcliffe Railway Station Low Moor Railway Station Luddendenfoot Railway Station Mytholmroyd Railway Station North Bridge Railway Station North Dean Railway Station Ovenden Railway Station Pellon Railway Station Pickle Bridge Railway Station Portsmouth Railway Station Ripponden & Barkisland Railway Station Ripponden Railway Station Rishworth Railway Station Rochdale Road Halt Saint Paul's Railway Station, Halifax Shaw Syke Railway Station Sowerby Bridge Railway Station Stainland Railway Station Stansfield Hall Railway Station Todmorden Railway Station Triangle Railway Station Walsden Railway Station West Vale Railway Station Wheatley Railway Station Wyke & Norwood Green Railway Station Wyke Railway Station
| Railway Companies & Railway-related entries |
Beacon Hill, Halifax Blake Dean railway bridge British Railways Cable car Caldervale Railway Line Clifton colliery railway Dawson City Dean Head Light Railway John Fraser Great Northern Railway Company Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway Company Halifax, Thornton & Keighley Railway Hardcastle Crags Railway Hebden Bridge High Level Railway Horton Street, Halifax Huddersfield & Halifax Railway Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Railway John Lewthwaite Joseph Lewthwaite London, Midland & Scottish Railway Luddenden Valley Railway Manchester & Leeds Railway Company Manchester, Hebden Bridge & Keighley Junction Railway Midland Railway Company North & South Junction Railway Paddy Mails Pickle Bridge Line Ryburn Valley branch line Southowram & Elland Light Railway Southowram Southowram-Holmfield Light Railway Rev Eric Treacy Walshaw Dean Railway Watson Crossing West Riding Union Railway West Yorkshire Railway Company West Yorkshire Railway Office Halifax & Ovenden Joint Railway
| Railway Investors: 1846 |
On 22nd August 1846, the Halifax Guardian published a list of people who had subscribed large sums to the growing railway system. These included
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Edward Akroyd = £122,746
Joseph Travis Clay = £92,000
Captain Laws = £79,000
George Pollard = £195,331
John Rhodes Ralph = £97,320
William Henry Rawson = £29,500
Michael Stocks = £36,000
©
Malcolm Bull 2008 /
calderdale@aol.com
Revised 27th August 2008 / mmr275 / 11