Local Railways & Railway stations

This SideTrack presents some details of the Railways and Railway Stations which served – and still serve – the Calderdale district.

• General Points

• Railway Stations

• Railway Companies & Railway-related entries
• Railway Investors : 1846

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 Clifton Road Railway Station Brighouse (for Bradford) Railway Station Brighouse (for Rastrick) Railway Station Brighouse Railway Station Charlestown 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, Todmorden 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 Queensbury 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 & Holywell Green Railway Station Stainland Branch Line Stainland Railway Station Stansfield Hall Railway Station Todmorden Railway Station Triangle Railway Station Walsden Railway Station Watson Crossing, Sowerby Bridge West Vale Railway Station Wheatley Railway Station Wyke & Norwood Green Railway Station Wyke Railway Station Clifton Road Railway Station

Railway Companies & Railway-related entries

Beacon Hill, Halifax Blake Dean railway bridge British Railways Cable car Caldervale Railway Line Clifton colliery railway Copy Pit Railway Line Dawson City Dean Head Light Railway John Fraser Great Northern Railway Company Halifax & Hull Direct Railway Company Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway Company Halifax, Huddersfield & Keighley Railway Halifax, Thornton & Keighley Railway Hardcastle Crags Railway Hebden Bridge High Level Railway Holmfield & Southowram Light Railway John Holroyd Horton Street, Halifax Huddersfield & Halifax Railway Huddersfield & Liverpool Direct Railway Company Hungry Wood Railway Arch, Todmorden Leeds & West Riding Junction Railway

Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Railway John Lewthwaite Joseph Hartley Lewthwaite London & North Eastern Railway London, Midland & Scottish Railway Company Luddenden Valley Railway The Manchester & Leeds Railway Company Manchester, Hebden Bridge & Keighley Junction Railway The Midland Railway Company Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dewsbury, Leeds & Bradford Railway Motor Train North & South Junction Railway Paddy Mails Pickle Bridge Line Ryburn Valley branch line South American Railways Southowram & Elland Light Railway Southowram Rev Eric Treacy Walshaw Dean Railway West Riding Union Railway The West Yorkshire Railway Company West Yorkshire Railway Office

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

• 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

Page Ref: MMR275

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