Shipley Great Northern

Here some more views of the Great Northern Railway

at Shiply. 

My thanks to the MLS Collection

I well remember some times on the Ilkley train

out of Forster Sq, being back shunted onto the GN

line in front of Shipley GN from the Midland station

if the line through and across to Baildon and Ilkley 

was congested. Choir trips to Ilkley Lido were a 

summer treat through my latter childhood. 

Again the workhorse of the Great Northern alps

route was the Ivatt N1. 

Here you see some of the 

platform has been lifted prior to the total closure

of the Great Northern line to Thackley, Idle,

Eccleshill and on to Laisterdyke where it 

joined the main line near Quarry Gap

Number	69436 d and 69430
2nd Grouping Number	lner 9436
1st Grouping Number	lner 4556
2nd Pre Grouping Number
1st Pre Grouping Number	gnr 1556
Works/Lot Number	1181
Class Code	N1
Designer	Ivatt
Designation	0-6-2T
Built	31/12/1907
Builder	Doncaster Works (GNR/LNER/British Railways)
1948 Shed	37B Leeds Copley Hill
Last Shed	37C Bradford Hammerton Street
Withdrawn	31/07/1955
Disposal details	Doncaster Works (B.R.)
Disposal	Cut Up
Disposal Date	31/08/1955