Great Northern Railway, Strines cutting to North Bridge station

Here a Diesel with the track lifted

from Queensbury tunnel exits on

its way down to Halifax

 

 

The first station out of the tunnel was Holmfield

the mill in the background is Holmfield mills and

can still be seen today as a marker to the station

 

The onto Ovenden which was a small station and

Almost always the destination for my mother and

myself

 

The station building can still e seen at Ovenden.

Instead fo going down Lee Bank into Halifax

turn down Old Lane

 

Then Lee Bank tunnel, a short tunnel beneath the

outcrop. Below is the exit facing Halifax

 

Here the entrance to Lee Bank Tunnel facing north

The mill on the left is sometimes referred to as Old

Lane mills but the OS maps call it Lee Bank mills

 

The railway then crossed the valley to Old Lane

Tunnel from where it went into Halifax North

Bridge station