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Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway

Locations along the line

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Skipton [2nd]

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Skipton

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60019 Bittern at Skipton station on 25 November 1967 with the MRTS Mancunian (also advertised as The Lancs & Yorks Rambler) on ...
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Operators come and go, but on the railway some signs live on for ever. It is 15 1/2 years since GNER gave up the East Coast franchise, with National ...
David Pesterfield 15/06/2023

Northern EMU 333008 has just arrived at Skipton on 21 September 2006 with a service from Leeds. After a few minutes it will set off again back along ...
John McIntyre 21/09/2006

DRS 37716 + 37218 topntail respectively 3S29 Hellifield to York Thrall Europa Rail Head Treatment Train passing Niffany west of Skipton. When the ...
Stephen Willetts 06/11/2022

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Skipton North Junction

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North Western Railway

DRS 37218 + 37716 topntail respectively 3S29 York Thrall Europa to Hellifield RHTT working crossing the River Aire near Niffany west of Skipton. ...
Stephen Willetts 06/11/2022

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Elslack

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Site of Elslack station on the former Midland Railway route from Skipton to Colne, seen from the approach road on 3 October 2009. The tracks ran ...
John McIntyre 03/10/2009

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Thornton-in-Craven

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Just to the east of Thornton-in-Craven station a short mineral branch ran north to a large quarry operated by P W Spencer. This supplied railway ...
Mark Bartlett 09/10/2023

The previous occasion on which I visited this station was during its last week of service in January 1970. Thornton-in-Craven closed, along with the ...
Mark Bartlett 17/12/2008

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Earby

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There are four bridges extant over or under the former Colne to Skipton railway trackbed over the short distance from the north end of Earby to ...
David Pesterfield 31/03/2019

There are four bridges extant over or under the former Colne to Skipton railway trackbed over the short distance from the east end of Earby to ...
David Pesterfield 31/03/2019

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Barnoldswick Junction

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Barnoldswick Railway

In the village of Kelbrook, near Earby, this bridge that carried the Colne to Skipton line until 1970 lives on. The unofficial path up the embankment ...
Mark Bartlett 09/10/2023

This is Barnoldswick Junction in October 2023. Passenger trains ceased on the branch in 1965, and goods the following year, but trains continued to ...
Mark Bartlett 09/10/2023

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Foulridge

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This is the view eastwards at the site of Foulridge (closed 1959) on the former MR line from Colne to Skipton in May 2009. The location of the former ...
John McIntyre 23/05/2009

A short distance to the east of Foulridge station, the double track MR from Colne to Skipton crossed the Leeds Liverpool Canal on a viaduct. In this ...
John McIntyre 23/05/2009

Foulridge, looking north along Station Road in May 2009. On the left was the goods yard, now built on and called The Old Sidings. To the right of the ...
John McIntyre 23/05/2009

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Colne

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Accrington, Burnley and Colne Branch (East Lancashire Railway)

156409 is moments into its journey from Colne to Preston, on a misty 9th October 2023, as it approaches Wackersall Bridge. Sixty years earlier its ...
Mark Bartlett 09/10/2023

View past 150131, awaiting departure for Preston on 8th March 2023, looking over the end of the platform at Colne, the bridge over Primet Hill and the ...
Mark Bartlett 08/03/2023

Northern 142060 waits at the sole remaining platform at Colne on 21 October 2011. Having arrived from Blackpool South, after a few minutes lay-over it ...
John McIntyre 21/10/2011

Northern Pacer 142060 has just departed from Colne (behind the camera) as it heads west to Blackpool South on 21 October 2011. At one time this was a ...
John McIntyre 21/10/2011

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Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway

Locations along the line

Skipton [2nd]

Skipton

Skipton North Junction

Elslack

Thornton-in-Craven

Earby

Barnoldswick Junction

Foulridge

Colne

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