Manningham Shed Bradford

Fairburn tank waits outside Manningham shed

 

 

Looks like a dubdee tender at the side

Erlestoke Manor at Kidderminster

 Built at Swindon in January 1939.

 

 

Erlestoke Manor along with eight of its fellow

Manor class were saved from scrap and are

preserved to this day. Erlestoke Manor completed

its major overhaul at the Severn Valley Railway 

and ran for the first time on 12 February 2008.

 

7812 has in recent years visited a wide selection

of heritage railways across the UK

 

A regular in operation on the SVR and its boiler ticket

is due to expire in 2018.

 

7812 Erlestroke Manor is one of three Manors at the

 Severn Valley Railway, the other two being 7802

Bradley Manor and GWR 7819 Hinton Manor.

 

Many thanks Wikipedia for the notes

Pictures are my own

Halifax and the Queenbury lines

Halifax could be approached from two sides, the

first from the east from Bradford via Low Moor,

Lightcliffe and Hipperholme and the second from

the North via Queensbury. The Macintosh sweet

factory is just to the right.

 

 

Above a train enters Halifax fom the eastern end

having come from Braford directly through Bowling

tunnel and Low Moor. The line curving away to

the left ran on to North Bridge station and the

line up through Ovenden and Holmefield to

Queensbury then on to Bradford or Keighley

 

It ran along a viaduct over the area of the town

called 'Woolshops', passing the power station,

in the early part of the century this was a very

gloomy, dark and heavily industrialised part of

the town. Above the viaduct is being demolished

in the 1980's

 

 

All of the above has now been demolished and

has returned to a green and pleasant town. The

 far right of the picture shows the Great Northern

Goods sheds just before the line enters North

Bridge station. The reason for building this

second line into Halifax was largely at the behest

of William Foster who owned mills in the

Queensbury district and he wanted rail

access to and from them. It did also

offer Halifax a direct link to the north

via Keighley onto the Midland Lines

to Scotland via the Settle and Carlisle.

The only other access to the lines was

via Leeds as Bradford had no link

between the Lancashire and Yorkshire (LMS)

and the Midland station at Foster Square.

 

 

 

The map above shows the two routes, the lower one

via Low Moor and the next one up via Queensbury.

LMS Jubilee 45596 'Bahamas'

Another soon to be seen sight

 

 

LMS Jubilee Bahamas, now under complete overhaul

 

Again many thanks John Law

The Taff Vale Tank engine No 85

Soon to be seen again

 

 

The Taff Vale Tank engine No85 at Ingrow bound

for Keighley.

 

Pictures by John Law

National Railway Museum York

The station hall

 

 

For me the station hall is the most atmospheric

part of the NRM, trains displayed as if they have

just pulled into the station

 

Outside the station hall and just across the yard

is a second display hall, here Rocket with its

train

 

Necessary on any railway, the heavy lift steam crane

Low Moor shed Bradford, Jubilee 45565 'Victoria'

The Lancashire and Yorkshire railway were soon

on the heels of the Bradford and Leeds Junction

railway in entering Bradford

 

 

Their main motive power depot being Low Moor