Todmorden to Burnley Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)

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Dates

18/01/1998Todmorden to Burnley Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Line closed to allow relay track and rebuild of Horsefall Tunnel's northern portal (£5M cost).
16/02/1998Todmorden to Burnley Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Line re-opened after Horsefall Tunnel rebuilt.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Hall Royd Junction

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Manchester and Leeds 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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Stansfield Hall

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A Sprinter heading from Blackburn to Rainford via Manchester Victoria passes through the site of Stansfield Hall station, of which no trace remains, ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2022
Looking south at the former Stansfield Hall loco spur on the right where Copy Pit bankers would wait to give assistance but which will shortly form ...
John McIntyre 10/02/2014
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Kitsonwood Tunnel

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Cornholme

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Portsmouth (Lancashire)

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A Blackpool to York service drifts down from Copy Pit to Hall Royd Junction as it passes the site of Portsmouth station in August 2017. ...
John McIntyre 13/08/2017
A Northern Blackpool to York service passes over the level crossing at the site of Portsmouth station (closed 1958) on the Copy Pit line between ...
John McIntyre 17/08/2017
158842 climbs through the steeply sided valley leading to Copy Pit summit with a York to Blackpool service. The train is just passing through the site ...
Mark Bartlett 16/04/2011
Castle over Copy Pit. GWR 4-6-0 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe storms through the site of Portsmouth station (closed 1958) on 16 April 2011 ...
Mark Bartlett 16/04/2011
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Holme

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What's that noise?... Deltic 55003 Meld southbound, rapidly approaching Holme, south of Peterborough, in April 1979 running at ...
Peter Todd 21/04/1979
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Towneley Tunnel

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Towneley

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A York to Blackpool service crosses the level crossing at Towneley on the south side of Burnley. The signalbox now only looks after the level ...
John McIntyre 17/08/2017
Towneley, a small station only half a mile east of Burnley Manchester Road, closed in 1952 but the station building survives as does the L&YR signal ...
Mark Bartlett 16/04/2011
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Thorneybank (Lancashire)

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Burnley Manchester Road

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Northern 156491 calls at Burnley, Manchester Road, on 18 July 2015. The train is the 2236 Blackburn - Manchester Victoria, running via the recently ...
Ken Strachan 18/07/2015
A Manchester Victoria to Blackburn service (via the reinstated Todmorden Curve), calls at Burnley Manchester Road on 14th March 2016. Closed ...
Mark Bartlett 14/03/2016
A view from the car park of the new Burnley Manchester Road station on 17 May 2015. ...
John McIntyre 17/05/2015
A Blackburn to Manchester Victoria service, via the reinstated Todmorden curve, calls at Burnley Manchester Road on a damp 17 May 2015. ...
John McIntyre 17/05/2015
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Gannow Junction

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Accrington, Burnley and Colne Branch (East Lancashire Railway)
Gannow Junction is where the Colne branch diverges from the Copy Pit line. Immediately below the junction is the western portal of Gannow Tunnel (559 ...
Mark Bartlett 02/03/2013
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