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Contributors:
Allan Shaw / Andrew
Stopford
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Tim Rylands / Paul Holroyd |
The Route
From Batley (Birstall Junction) to Birstall Lower.
Length 2 miles (single track)
Opening Batley to Birstall Lower 30th September 1852.
Intermediate station at Carlinghow opened 1st April 1872.
Closure Passengers - 31st December 1916 (temporary
wartime measure)
Freight - 1962.
Proposals to extend the branch to Bradford were rejected in 1861 in
favour of the GNR.
Adwalton junction to Batley line. Birstall was condemned to remain a
backwater. |
 Birstall
Junction (31-03-06) : Allan Shaw |
 Trackbed
(31-03-06) : Allan Shaw |
 Bridge
(02-07-06) : Andrew Stopford
Bridge over the Birstall branch at Batley. |
 Bridge
(20-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Bridge abutment on the Birstall Branch at Carlinghow
Hill. |
 Footpath
(20-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Kirklees Council has made a footpath here which
runs on the trackbed along the back of Wilton Park.
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 Bridge
(26-11-07) : Paul Holroyd website - www.ingrowrailwaycentre.co.uk
Bridge in Wilton Park, Batley. |
 Footbridge
(24-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
Footbridge over Birstall Branch at the station & yard
throat. Looking away from Birstall. |
 Footbridge
(24-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
Looking from the bridge towards the station & yard. |
 Footbridge
(24-12-07) : Andrew Stopford
Looking from the bridge towards Batley. |
 Birstall
Lower goods yard : Tim Rylands |
 Birstall
Lower
goods yard (31-03-06) : Allan Shaw
Part
of one retaining wall of the station survives. |
 Birstall
Lower goods yard (20-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Remnants of the yard/station at Birstall Smithies.
Platform on the left. |
 Birstall
Lower goods yard (20-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
You can see the platform edgings as they slope down at the end. |
See
Railway Ramblers gazetteer
