The Dudley Hill station story ending

Once again for your convenience I include the view

of the line from above. Crofts Engineers Dawson

lane works dominates the centre top. The Low 

Moor line can be seen in the cutting bottom right

where it entered a short tunnel to pass under the

Great Northern Leeds to Ardsley line. We can 

all to easily forget how the local railways scene 

was dominated by the Great Northern Railway

who were determined to gain footholds in the 

Lancashire & Yorkshire territory now under the 

influence of the Midland and LNWR soon to be

the LMS

The large shed like building which can be seen in

the picture below, centre left, can be seen bottom 

right corner of the aerial view above. In my days

working at Crofts it was a bicycle shop

The view above is take from the Great Northern 

line looking towards Dudley Hill station. The steel

over bridge at the top of the picture carries Dawson 

lane over the railway. To my back would be seen 

Crofts Dawson lane works and the line to Ardsley

and further on to Wakefield. The small bridge on

the right of the picture carried Tong St across the

Low Moor line whose short tunnel parapet can be

seen centre right 

Above picture taken from the Tong St bridge facing

Knowles lane bridge and shows the good branch now

unused and disconnected on the centre left

Here the cutting is now being infilled in the 1970's

The steel bridge being Dawson lane. How short a

 life these very costly civil engineering projects

lasted is testimony to the railway mania of the time.

Above the last views of what little remains of  a

once busy station, goods depot and junction. 

Dudley Hill station bereft of all buildings 

showing the view towards Knowles Lane

Below the end of the Low Moor line

How quickly we cast aside that which we have no further use of only to find that we needed it after all