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Dates

  /  /1825Manchester and Leeds Railway
First proposal for railway.
04/07/1836Manchester and Leeds Railway
Royal assent received.
04/07/1839Manchester and Leeds Railway
Manchester (Oldham Road) to Littleborough opened.
05/10/1840Manchester and Leeds Railway
Normanton to Hebden Bridge opened, worked by the North Midland Railway.
01/01/1841Manchester and Leeds Railway
Extended from Hebden Bridge to Walsden.
01/03/1841Manchester and Leeds Railway
Line opened throughout; Walsden to Littleborough through the summit tunnel opened.
02/01/1842Railway Clearing House
The Railway Clearing House is established. Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, Great North of England Railway, Hull and Selby Railway, Leeds and Selby Railway, London and Birmingham Railway, Manchester and Leeds Railway, Midland Counties Railway, North Midland Railway and York and North Midland Railway join.
01/01/1844Manchester and Leeds Railway
Miles Platting to Hunts Bank (Manchester Victoria) opened.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Manchester Oldham Road

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Miles Platting [1st]

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Miles Platting Junction

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Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway





Miles Platting

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An LMR maroon totem from the inner-city Manchester station of Miles Platting (1844-1995). ...
David Panton //
The signal box at Miles Platting Junction - September 1987. ...
Ian Dinmore /09/1987
A DMU arriving at Miles Platting in June 1984. The station closed to passengers in 1995. [Ref query 6883] ...
Ewan Crawford Collection 06/06/1984
A DMU leaving Miles Platting in September 1987. The station was finally closed to passengers in May 1995. ...
Ian Dinmore 19/09/1987
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Brewery Junction

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Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway





Thorpes Bridge Junction

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Hollinwood Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Thorpes Bridge Junction was the point where two lines from Manchester Victoria (via Miles Platting and Cheetham Hill) met and also where the Rochdale ...
Mark Bartlett 28/12/2012
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Newton Heath

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Castleton South Junction

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Castleton East Junction

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Castleton

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A Northern Class 150 DMU departs from Castleton on 29 November on a Manchester Victoria - Leeds service. ...
John McIntyre 29/11/2014
Northern 155343 calls at Castleton on 29 November 2014 with a service heading for Manchester Victoria. ...
John McIntyre 29/11/2014
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Mills Hill

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Ian Riley's much travelled 45407, running as 45157, passes Mills Hill returning to Manchester Victoria after a 'Cotton Spinner' trip round the Oldham ...
Mark Bartlett 21/04/2003
A Manchester Victoria to Leeds semi fast service passes Mills Hill in east Manchester on 29 November 2014 as passengers wait on both platforms for the ...
John McIntyre 29/11/2014
Not to be confused with Mill Hill near Blackburn, this is Mills Hill between Manchester Victoria and Rochdale. The station was built in 1985 to ...
Mark Bartlett 01/06/2009
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Middleton Junction

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Middleton Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)





Moston

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Rochdale

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Metrolink Tram 3036 gets ready to return to Manchester from Rochdale on 18th July 2015. This new tram terminus is approximately at right angles to the ...
Ken Strachan 18/07/2015
A brace of trams, led by 3061, roll down the new street running section in Rochdale towards the terminus. The sole purpose of the traffic lights ...
Mark Bartlett 07/08/2014
The newest addition to the Metrolink network is the 1km street running extension from Rochdale Railway station, down the hill into the town ...
Mark Bartlett 07/08/2014
A brace of M5000 series trams approaching Rochdale Railway Station on 7 August along the new section of the Metrolink system from Rochdale Town ...
Mark Bartlett 07/08/2014
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Rochdale [1st]

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Rochdale East Junction

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Facit Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Oldham Loop (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)





Smithy Bridge

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60021 'Penyghent' hauling 6M60 Drax-Liverpool Bulk Terminal empty biomass on 17th February 2020. It is passing Clegg Hall, the village of Dearnley is ...
Stephen Willetts 17/02/2020
Smithy Bridge level crossing sees 158904 hurry through on a Leeds to Manchester Victoria service on 14th March 2016. The signal box that previously ...
Mark Bartlett 14/03/2016
Smithy Bridge station was closed from 1960 until reopened by GMPTE in 1985. With the reintroduced services from Burnley complementing those on the ...
Mark Bartlett 14/03/2016
158844 and 150220 run non stop through Smithy Bridge with a semi-fast Manchester to Leeds service on 29 November 2014. ...
John McIntyre 29/11/2014
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Littleborough

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Although the Rochdale Canal and railway run very close together around Littleborough there are very few places where the views are not obscured. This ...
Mark Bartlett 17/05/2023
The L&YR station building at Littleborough is on the staggered Todmorden and Leeds platform. This Sprinter was working from Blackburn to Rainford via ...
Mark Bartlett 17/05/2023
The modern shelter on the Manchester platform at Littleborough is a complete contrast with the L&YR building on the Down side. 150102 leaves with a ...
Mark Bartlett 17/05/2023
The northbound platform building at Littleborough station in 2006. ...
Ewan Crawford 10/09/2006
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Walsden [1st]

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The footbridge crossing the line at the site of the first Walsden station, just south of the present station. The old level crossing was removed ...
Ewan Crawford 10/09/2006
The original Walsden station, closed in 1961, occupied the area in this picture right up to the portal of Winterbutlee Tunnel. The replacement ...
Mark Bartlett 19/10/2022
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Walsden

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DB 66170 rolls eastwards through Walsden on 31st October 2016 with a freight carrying containers of waste from Knowsley Freight Terminal on the Kirkby ...
Mark Bartlett 31/10/2016
Freightliner 66562 climbs through Walsden with a loaded coal train travelling from Ferrybridge to Fiddlers Ferry on 31st October 2016. The present ...
Mark Bartlett 31/10/2016
Still in the Colas colour scheme, 60096 hauled dead by GBRf 66773 passes a Class 158 on a Northern Leeds to Wigan Wallgate service at Walsden on 2nd ...
Malcolm Chattwood 02/01/2020
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Gauxholme Viaduct

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The builders plate of the Gauxholme Viaduct. The text reads 'J Butler & Co, Iron Founders, Stanningley, Near Leeds, 1840'. Stanningley is about midway ...
Network Rail //
802219 crosses Gauxholme viaduct, Todmorden with 1P31, the TPE 14:54 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle on 16th September 2023. ...
Stephen Willetts 16/09/2023
Gauxholme viaduct with a close up of the finished steelwork. ...
Network Rail //2021
View down the Rochdale Canal towards Todmorden at Gauxholme Viaduct in October 2022. 195012 can just be seen crossing the waterway, heading from Leeds ...
Mark Bartlett 19/10/2022
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Todmorden

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Northern's 144006 passes signal PN322 on the approach to Todmorden, whilst working a Manchester Victoria to Leeds service in February 2014. The unit ...
John McIntyre 10/02/2014
60096, in the Colas paintwork of its former operator, and 60002, reliveried by GBRf, rumble through Todmorden on the latter stage of the climb to ...
Mark Bartlett 19/10/2022
60056, 56098 and 60095 head east with 0Z60, the 10:20 Liverpool Biomass Terminal GBRf to Doncaster Down Decoy GBRf, seen passing through Todmorden an ...
Stephen Willetts 16/09/2023
66161 approaches Todmorden with a loaded 'bin liner' service from Knowsley waste terminal to Wilton on 17th May 2023. There was a definite 'whiff' ...
Mark Bartlett 17/05/2023
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Hall Royd Junction

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Todmorden to Burnley Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
This view, from the road that runs over Millwood Tunnel, looks west to Hall Royd Junction immediately beyond the tunnel mouth. Two 2-car 195s form a ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2022
195105 leaves the Copy Pit route to join the Calder valley line with a Blackpool to York service on 20th July 2022. It is just about to enter Millwood ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2022
A Northern service from Leeds to Manchester Victoria with 158752, passes Hall Royd Jct in February 2014. The tracks on the left converging at Hall ...
John McIntyre 10/02/2014
View looking east over Hall Royd Junction, towards Millwood Tunnel, in 2006. The rusty loop in between the two running lines was subsequently lifted. ...
Ewan Crawford 10/09/2006
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Eastwood

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Eastwood closed to passengers in 1951. It was on a cramped valley side location and the platforms were staggered either side of a level crossing. ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2022
70814 has just left the Copy Pit line at Hall Royd Junction and is now heading east through the Calder Valley at Eastwood with the empty bitumen tanks ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2022
GBRf 60047, still in Colas livery, climbs through the Calder Valley with a long train of Biomass hoppers from Drax, heading for Liverpool Docks, on ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2022
The cramped site at Eastwood required some ingenuity in designing the station. This excavated recess in the steep hillside housed the station ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2022
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Hebden Bridge

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60026 'Helvellyn' heads 6E10, 11:26 Liverpool Biomass Tml to Drax, through Hebden Bridge on 3rd October 2022. ...
Stephen Willetts 03/10/2022
While the Standedge route was closed for electrification works during March 2023, TPE services were diverted to the Calder Valley line. 802206 is on a ...
Mark Bartlett 15/03/2023
Deciduous trees are a feature all along the Calder Valley line so there will be plenty of work for the leaf buster, seen here passing through Hebden ...
Mark Bartlett 19/10/2022
The Standedge route is closed for several weeks for major engineering upgrades, and TPE services are diverting through the Calder Valley. 802201, on a ...
Mark Bartlett 15/03/2023
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Mytholmroyd

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It would have been quite a climb up to platform level in the three storey station building at Mytholmroyd. It is no longer in railway use but has been ...
Mark Bartlett 19/10/2022
The platforms at Mytholmroyd once ran out over the viaduct but have now been extended towards Leeds allowing this section to be closed off. The ...
Mark Bartlett 19/10/2022
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Luddendenfoot

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195023 and 008 run through the site of Luddendenfoot station with a Leeds to Chester service on 8th November 2023. Luddendenfoot opened with the line ...
Mark Bartlett 08/11/2023
Autumn colours linger in the Calder Valley as 195112 runs through the site of Luddendenfoot station on a Chester to Leeds service on 8th November ...
Mark Bartlett 08/11/2023
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Sowerby Bridge Watertroughs

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Sowerby Bridge [1st]

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Sowerby Bridge

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Rishworth Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
195104 to Leeds (reversing at Bradford Interchange) arriving at Sowerby Bridge on the unrelentingly wet afternoon of Tuesday, 19th September 2023. ...
David Bosher 19/09/2023
Sign in the form of an early BR totem at Sowerby Bridge, Calder Valley Line, on Tuesday, 19th September 2023. A volunteer group, entitled The Friends ...
David Bosher 19/09/2023
The late afternoon sun catches 158752 as it departs from Sowerby Bridge on 12 March 2013 on a Leeds to Manchester Victoria service. ...
John McIntyre 12/03/2013
A Calder Valley line service, formed by Leyland unit 155345, calls at Sowerby Bridge on 2 April on its way to Leeds. Above the unit the local ...
Mark Bartlett 02/04/2011
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Milner Royd Junction

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Milner Royd Junction to Dryclough Junction (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)





Greetland

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Stainland Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Halifax Branch (Manchester and Leeds Railway)





Elland [1st]

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Elland [2nd]

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Brighouse [2nd]

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Brighouse

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RHTT 2022 Season Begins. Autumn is upon us! 66847 'Terry Baker' heads the 11:38 Grimsby Town - York Thrall Europa Rail Head Treatment Train at ...
Stephen Willetts 03/10/2022
Water stop for the 'Tin Bath' at Brighouse on 18th March 2013. All eyes are on Black 5s 44871 and 45407, well all except the photographer to ...
Mark Bartlett 18/03/2013
Leyland built Sprinter 155347 leaves Brighouse. The station lies on an east-west line and trains for Leeds call in both directions. This service, from ...
Mark Bartlett 24/04/2010
A diverted Sunday Trans-Pennine service (185105 heading for Middlesbrough) passing through Brighouse rather than taking the usual Standedge route from ...
Mark Bartlett 18/03/2013
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Brighouse [1st]

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Anchor Pit Junction

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Wyke Junction to Anchor Pit Junction (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)





Bradley Wood Junction

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Cooper Bridge

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Heaton Lodge Junction

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Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway
An early evening eastbound Trans-Pennine express, probably the 18:05 Liverpool - Leeds, comes off the Huddersfield line at Heaton Lodge East Junction ...
Bill Jamieson /07/1983
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Mirfield [1st]

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Mirfield

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Leyland unit 155344 on a Leeds service pulls away from a stop at Mirfield's island platform, as seen from the third platform that serves westbound ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2010
Apparently running without its 'Royal Inniskilling Fusilier' nameplate, Peak No. 45044 crosses the River Calder just west of Mirfield station ...
Bill Jamieson /07/1983
Brush Type 3s 31285 + 31264 double head a rake of fuel or bitumen bogie tanks west between Mirfield and Heaton Lodge Junction in May 1987. ...
David Pesterfield 06/05/1987
Although many tracks have been lifted at Mirfield three lines survive and they all serve station platforms. TPE 185141 hurries away from the camera ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2010
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Mirfield No 3 Junction

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Bradford Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)





Dewsbury LNW Junction

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Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway





Heckmondwike Junction

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Heckmondwike to Heckmondwike Junction (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)





Dewsbury West Junction

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Dewsbury Market Place Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)





Dewsbury East Junction

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Dewsbury Market Place Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)





Thornhill Midland Junction

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Horbury

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Horbury (Millfield Road)

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Horbury Junction

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Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway
Horbury Junction signal box, dating from 1927, seen from 158901 taking the Barnsley line with the ex-11.09 Northern service from Leeds to Nottingham, ...
David Bosher 21/09/2023
37069 heads an extra eastbound oil train through the cutting 
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Bill Jamieson 01/06/1974
37520 has just left the Procor works at Horbury Junction in February 1997 with a rake of refurbished London Transport tube stock heading towards ...
David Pesterfield 05/02/1997
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Horbury Junction [Station]

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Horbury Junction Watertroughs

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Ings Road Junction

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Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway





Wakefield Kirkgate

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Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway
195011 to Leeds at Wakefield Kirkgate, seen from 158901 with the ex-11.09 Northern service from Leeds to Nottingham, that I travelled on from Leeds to ...
David Bosher 21/09/2023
40046 at Wakefield Kirkgate on a mixed freight in October 1980. One went here to see the Healey Mills 40s at work. Some of them were to me rare birds. ...
Roger Geach 23/10/1980
Up close and personal view of preserved former LNER Gresley A4 Pacific 4468 (BR 60022) 'Mallard', as it runs east non-stop through Wakefield Kirkgate ...
David Pesterfield 31/07/1988
Derby built ex-BR Class 11 Shunter 12082 rests by the stop block for the reception sidings to the former Cobra Railfreight steel terminal, alongside ...
David Pesterfield 28/05/1996
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Turner Lane Junction

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Goose Hill Junction

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North Midland Railway





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