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Contributors:
Ralph Rawlinson / Humphrey Burton / Andrew Stopford / Graeme Bickerdike
/ Alan Sedgwick |
 Dewsbury
& Batley Map c1900 :
Ralph Rawlinson |
 Dewsbury
Central
GNR Dewsbury Central Station (12-03-07)
The entrances to the station from road level. Taken from
Whitehall Way. See Dewsbury Loop |
 Plaque
(12-03-07)
Spotted this blue plaque on the side of the
building, good idea we thought. |
 Station
Hotel (12-03-07)
Looking across Corporation Street, tasty hotel
building.
Dewsbury ring road flies over where the tracks once were, original bridge
stonework survives beneath.
Viaduct carrying existing Dewsbury Wellington Street to Batley line
visible in the background on extreme left. |
 Dewsbury Central
tickets (c1960s) : Alan Sedgwick
website -
http://uk.geocities.com/Sedges2/index.htm
Momento's of just a few Schoolboy Railway Journeys in the
last days of 'sixities' steam.
The Dewsbury Central ticket is from Sept 63, the Thornhil Lees WM was
1967.
August '65 Leeds Central-Retford, the others are mostly from 1965/66. |
Dewsbury Headfield Junction
Headfield Junction (13-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
 Market
Place Branch looking towards Dewsbury - Market Place Branch went through
the partially obscured left arch. Line to right was the spur to the GNR
line which went over the big Calder Viaduct. I think the existing line
(now just a siding from Dewsbury East junction for the cement works and
stone depot) finishes just out of shot. Compare this pic with bottom shot
page 74 Railway Memories no. 11. The spur line had been lifted at the time
of the shot in the book and was relaid later before being closed and
lifted again in the early 90s to a point just out of shot round the bend. |
 Bridge
Plate : Alan Sedgwick
From the Bridge seen in the distance in the above
photo.
I guess the road bridge that the bridges picture was taken from on your
site, could have been bridge 1. |
 Headfield
Junction (13-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
looking towards Dewsbury East junction - siding into
cement works was the line to Dewsbury West junction which is now
disconnected at that end. |
Headfield 2 (19-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
 Now
the end of the line on the Dewsbury side of and looking towards Headfield
Junction. The Market Place branch ran to the right towards the camera
under the partially obscured arch. This remaining line rejoins the Market
Place formation at this bridge and then runs to the Calder Valley main
line via Headfield & Dewsbury East junctions and serves a stone products
yard on the left just out of sight round the bend, and a cement works at
Headfield Junction on the right a little further on. The line into the
cement works was the line from Headfield Junction to Dewsbury West
junction. |
 Headfield
1 (19-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
looking towards Railway St - looks like the tracklifters
got bored and just left these rails where they lifted them! |
 Headfield
Bridge (03-02-08) : Andrew Stopford
Headfield Junction from the canal - Dewsbury to the right. Tracks still go
through this bridge in connection with the Blue Circle Cement works just
out of shot to the right. |
 Market
Pl Canal (03-02-08) : Andrew Stopford
Iron bridge carrying the connecting line between the
Market Place branch & the GNR at Dewsbury over the short canal spur from the
Calder & Hebble Navigation into Dewsbury Canal Basin. |
Headfield viaduct
 Headfield
viaduct (13-03-06)
: Graeme Bickerdike
website - http://www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/
Features the northern end of the viaduct on the line to Headfield
Junction. |
 Headfield
viaduct (13-03-06) : Graeme Bickerdike
This photo shows the ‘relieving arches’.
Their purpose is to redirect the line of thrust borne from above - in
this case, the actual structure.
It moves the loading to the outer ends of the pier making for a more
concentrated load. |
 Headfield
viaduct (13-03-06) : Graeme Bickerdike
The open bow string girder bridge over the Calder. |
 Headfield
viaduct (13-03-06) : Graeme Bickerdike
looks out over the river from the bridge. |
 Headfield
viaduct (19-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
Calder Viaduct looking towards Railway St Yard |
 Headfield
viaduct (19-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
Calder Viaduct signs of decay! |
 Headfield
viaduct (19-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
Calder Viaduct central iron section - just put it in
because I like it!
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Dewsbury
Railway Street Goods
Railway
St goods (c1960) : Alan Sedgwick
website -
http://uk.geocities.com/Sedges2/index.htm
 The view from our Attic
on Leamington Terrace, Scarborough Street. Looking over the old & new Hodgsons
yard roofs & Marley Tiles Yard towards Sands Lane with the canal basin
left side. Our house was to the right [East] of the L & Y Market Place line
which after passing us went over a level crossing which split the bus sheds
in two on Mill Street East before it crossed the River. In this photo
an 8f 2-8-0 takes a goods train from Railway Street
towards Thornhill Lees Jncn on the briefly re-laid single track. |
 Railway St yard (19-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
As far as you can walk and looking towards the Railway St yard (now
the site of a retail park) - the spur line has now joined the main line
which came through Earlesheaton Tunnel from Osset. |
 Dewsbury
Market Place branch
Mill street East (13-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
Railway wall at 'platform' height if ever I saw one - Market Place branch
looking from Mill St East (close to Calder crossing point) away from
Dewsbury. Line of branch to right of camera in line with the
wall/platform/loading dock |
 Market
Place (19-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
The line of the Market Place branch looking towards Market Place from
under the bridge in Headfield 2 |
Market Place branch River Calder bridge
(20-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
 I've
been determined to find some trace of this and finally succeeded! It's a
shot of the Savile Town side abutement of the bridge that brought the
Market Place branch across the River Calder and the final few yards to the
terminus. If you look in the centre of the pictures just above the river
water level you can see some built up stonework. There is an industrial
unit built on the actual line of the branch right on top of the abutement.
There is no trace of anything (unless I eventually uncover it!) on the
Dewsbury side - a retail park has been built and there are some fairly
recent storm drainage outflows where the Dewsbury side abutement would
have been. |
 Dewsbury
Savile Town Goods
See Royston Savile Town
South
Street/Warren Street (07-06) : Andrew
Stopford
Bridge over the line of the Savile Town goods branch - near South
Street/Warren Street, Savile Town,
looking away from Savile Town. July
06. |
 Savile
road tunnel (06-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
Managed to find the northern portal of the Savile Town Goods Branch
tunnel under Savile Road, Dewsbury!
I think the southern portal is well and truly buried unless somebody
knows different...! You can see into it through the fence.
It seems fairly dry but there is a lot of rubbish inside. |
 Trackbed
(03-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
Facing toward Dewsbury Headfield road to the right |
 Bridge
(03-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
Overbridge off the common near Thornhill |
 Headfield road
facing south (31-05-04)
Bridge buttresses clearly visible on each side of
Headfield road.
To the right the line headed towards Savile town & crossed the Ravensthorpe to Wakefield line,
the Ravensthorpe to Wakefield line passes under
the road here. |
 Right
hand side of
Headfield road
facing south. (31-05-04)
Just to the right of above photo, remnants of the
other side of the bridge. |
 Headfield
road bridge (03-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
Brick detail |
 Headfield
road bridge facing south (03-02-07) : Andrew Stopford
looking across the ravine.
The Ravensthorpe to Wakefield line is down in the bottom. |
