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Stephanie Penny /
Richard Barnes / Dave Heatley / Lost Railways |
Sowerby Bridge to Rishworth
Built to main line standards, the line was originally intended as a high
speed cut off to Littleborough. A survey of the route between Rishworth &
Littleborough was carried
out in 1882, but this section of line was never built.
The Route
From Sowerby Bridge on the Calder Valley Main line to Rishworth
(terminated)
via Triangle (opened in 1885) & Riponden.
Openings Sowerby Bridge to Riponden - 5th August 1878
Riponden to Rishworth - 1881
Closures Passengers - 6th July 1929
Freight -
Sowerby Bridge to Rishworth - 1952
Sowerby Bridge to Riponden - 1958
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 Sowerby Bridge sign (04-05-08) : Paul Holroyd
See Vintage Carriages
Sign from Sowerby Bridge, currently on loan to the
Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow near Keighley. |
 Sowerby
Bridge West Box (09-85) : Dave Heatley
Unfortunately the camera was letting light in but this is the last time
the signal box was intact. Fire damage has left the structure in an
unsafe condition and would be demolished soon after this picture was
taken in September 1985.
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  Sowerby Bridge
Station Bar 2008
Newspaper articles Huddersfield Examiner 19-03-08 & Halifax
Courier 02-08. |
  Sowerby
Bridge Station (16-08-08) : Lost Railways
Station building looks stranded in the middle of
the car park.
No sign of any pub conversion as yet. (see above) |
  Sowerby
Bridge Station subway (16-08-08)
Photographed from entrance to station on Holmes
road & close up of bricked up section.
I'm guessing the existing platform on the far side was once an
island |
 Sowerby
Bridge tunnel north portal (02-08-06)(26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Sowerby Bridge tunnel- tunnel at start of branch (Sowerby Bridge end).
Now a
parcel delivery firm's yard. Sign of the times? |
 Sowerby
Bridge tunnel south portal (02-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
The tunnel at Sowerby Bridge at the start of the Rishworth branch.
Southern portal, picture looking towards Sowerby Bridge.
The mouth and
some length of the tunnel seems to be in use as part of the factory
site. |
 Occupation
bridge facing towards Rishworth (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
just after Watson Mill Crossing |
 Occupation
bridge (c2005) : Stephanie Penny
Metal bridge that still connects the footpath network of Norland to Belmont/Triangle area of Sowerby
Bridge.
Right next to this is a small electricity sub station right in the
centre of the cutting |
 Northern
Gas Networks installation facing towards Rishworth (26-08-06) :
Andrew Stopford
Across trackbed - bridge in previous photo visible at far
side. |
 Bridge
facing towards Rishworth (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford |
 Bridge
facing towards Rishworth (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford |
 Footbridge
(c2005) : Stephanie Penny
Ripponden/Rishworth line cutting and metal footbridge. |
 Cutting
(c2005) : Stephanie Penny
Ripponden/Rishworth line cutting |
 Cutting
facing towards Rishworth (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford |
 Cutting looking back towards Sowerby
Bridge (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford |
 Triangle
station (c1959) : Richard Barnes
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copyright on all Richard Barnes Photographs
Triangle Station
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 Triangle
station
(c2005) :
Stephanie Penny
The station house - though I have said that this could be
the ex Station House,
this is only a presumption on my part, due to it's positioning, I have
no real evidence for that. |
 Triangle
station
(c2005) :
Stephanie Penny
This property also has a small holding which houses fowl
of various sorts actually on the track. |
 Triangle
station facing Rishworth (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
The site of Traingle station. |
 Triangle
station
(c2005) :
Stephanie Penny
A pleasurable use of the space left behind on the
dismantled raillines on the Rishowrth branch line near Triangle. |
 Triangle
station facing towards Rishworth (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Bridge at entry to Triangle station. |
 Triangle
station facing Sowerby Bridge (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Leaving Triangle station looking back towards Sowerby Bridge |
 Bridge
facing towards Rishworth (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford |
 Cutting looking back
(26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford |
 Lineside
furniture (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
31 what? Miles to Manchester? Or 3 and 1 quarter miles from Sowerby
Bridge? Any ideas? Lineside furniture survivor! |
 Bridge from lineside
track (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford |
 Level
crossing (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Site of level crossing approaching Ripponden -
LC gate post (looking
towards Sowerby Bridge). Road on left is on railway formation. |
 Ripponden
Old Bank (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Former bridge. Moors in the background which the line was originally
going to go through/under if it had been continued. |
 Ripponden
Station approach (26-06-08) : Dave Heatley
Ripponden Station approach from Elland Road. |
 Ripponden
Bank (26-08-06) : Andrew Stopford
Ripponden Bank bridge abutement. |
 Approach to Ripponden (c1959) : Richard Barnes
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Approach to Ripponden. You can just make out the signal which was linked
to the level crossing gates.
I remember friends and I having great fun opening and shutting the gate
and watching the signal go up and down!! |
 Ripponden Station
(c1959) : Richard Barnes © |
 Rishworth
Station platform (05/03/05) Photo : Railway Ramblers member Bob Prigg
Website -
www.Railway Ramblers.org
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