Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (London and North Western Railway)

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Dates

31/12/1850Railway Clearing House
By this date, Ardrossan Railway, Caledonian Railway, Cockermouth and Workington Railway, Eastern Counties Railway, East Lincolnshire Railway, Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway, Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, Great Northern Railway, Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (London and North Western Railway), Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Maryport and Carlisle Railway, North British Railway, Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour, Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, South Staffordshire Railway, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Stockton and Hartlepool Railway, St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, Stirling and Dunfermline Railway, Whitehaven Junction Railway and York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway join.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Stalybridge

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Micklehurst Line (London and North Western Railway)
Stalybridge Branch (Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway)
TPE 185141 passes Stalybridge in July 2014 with a Manchester to Middlesborough service. ...
John McIntyre 05/07/2014
185128 pauses at Stalybridge with a Hull to Manchester service in October 2022. The station was transformed during a recent three week closure during ...
Mark Bartlett 18/10/2022
TPE 185118 passes Stalybridge on 05 July 2014 with a service to Manchester Airport from the east of the Pennines. ...
John McIntyre 05/07/2014
TransPennine 170306 calls at Stalybridge platform 1 on 5 July 2014 with a Hull to Manchester service. ...
John McIntyre 05/07/2014
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Stalybridge Tunnel

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Wakefield Road crosses over the Huddersfield Line tunnel, just east of Stalybridge Station, as it first heads east and then turns north north east ...
David Pesterfield 07/02/2018
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Mossley

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66615 passes through Mossley with 6M05, the 09.30 empty binliner from Roxby to Northenden, in October 2008. ...
John Clark 28/10/2008
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Greenfield

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Oldham Branch (London and North Western Railway)
68021 'Tireless' propels 1U39, 09:35 Manchester Piccadilly - Scarborough, through Greenfield on the Standedge route on 25th November 2023. These loco ...
Stephen Willetts 25/11/2023
A four-car Sprinter service slows for the Greenfield stop working from Manchester to Huddersfield via the Standedge route on 7th October 2016. Note ...
Mark Bartlett 07/10/2016
A rather grainy shot of 47520 climbing through Greenfield with a Liverpool to Newcastle service on New Year's Eve 1980. Loco-hauled Trans-Pennine ...
Mark Bartlett 31/12/1980
New Years Eve 1980 sees 47555 The Commonwealth Spirit hauling a seven coach Newcastle to Liverpool Trans Pennine service past Greenfield ...
Mark Bartlett 31/12/1980
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Moorgate [LNWR]

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Delph Junction

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Delph Branch (London and North Western Railway)





Saddleworth

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Diggle Junction

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TPE loco hauled services to cease 10th December. 68021 'Tireless' has just passed Diggle Junction on the Standedge route with 1U52 12:48 Scarborough - ...
Stephen Willetts 25/11/2023
Pathfinder Railtours 1Z40 07:01 Burton-on-Trent to Newcastle headed by CFPS D345 (40145) seen approaching Diggle on the Standedge route on 12th ...
Stephen Willetts 12/11/2022
Trans Pennine Express 802214 heads 9M22 10:07 Newcastle to Liverpool Lime Street at Diggle, having just emerged from Standedge tunnel, on 14th ...
Stephen Willetts 12/11/2022
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Diggle

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Micklehurst Line (London and North Western Railway)
An unusual New Year's Eve convoy emerges from the Standedge Tunnel and rolls through the site of Diggle station beginning the descent towards ...
Mark Bartlett 31/12/1980
Climbing up to the Standedge tunnel at Diggle is 47415 on a Liverpool to Newcastle service running past the semaphores that were still in use at that ...
Mark Bartlett 31/12/1980
New Years Eve at Diggle sees 47511 Thames on a Newcastle to Liverpool service running down past Diggle Junction signal box just after leaving ...
Mark Bartlett 31/12/1980
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Standedge Tunnel

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A view over the canal feeder at Standedge Tunnel showing the pumping arrangement while the feeder is raised over the railway for electrification. ...
Duncan Ross 07/06/2018
A view north over the north eastern (Marsden) portal of the railway Standedge Tunnel which shows the work to raise or renew the Tunnel End Reservoir ...
Duncan Ross 07/06/2018
40084 approaches the east end of Standedge Tunnel with the 13.49 York to Liverpool Lime St. service in 1980. At the time Trans-Pennine expresses were ...
Bill Jamieson 11/11/1980
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Marsden

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Micklehurst Line (London and North Western Railway)
Marsden looking east. ...
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A Manchester Victoria - Huddersfield DMU seen shortly after leaving Marsden station in July 1992. ...
Ian Dinmore /07/1992
An empty oil train, headed by 47285 and probably bound for Teesside, approaches Marsden station off the sharp reverse curves at the east end of ...
Bill Jamieson /11/1983
Class 47 no 47285 approaching Marsden Station on the Standedge route in the summer of 1983 with an eastbound block load of bogie oil tanks, most ...
Bill Jamieson //1983
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Slaithwaite

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Golcar

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Longwood

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Springwood Junction

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Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway





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