Dewsbury Railway Station

 Dewsbury Railway Station is a station approx 9 miles south west of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. The station provides trains with links to Leeds, Huddersfield, Manchester, York, Hull, Sowerby Bridge, Redcar and Hebden Bridge. In the last full year before the Covid pandemic (2019-20) the station served approx 1.622 million passengers at an average of 31,200 per week. The station is staffed during daytime hours and has self service ticket machines, it features waiting rooms on each platform which is connected by a footbridge which offers step free access via lifts. The station also features a pub on Platform 2 known as the West Riding Refreshment Rooms.

The station was opened on the 18th September 1848 by the London and North Western Railway who had taken over the lines builders the Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway. Dewsbury was to become something of a railway town for a time when there was 4 stations in the town in addition to a number in the nearby area. The stations serving the town were Dewsbury Central closed 1964, Dewsbury Market Place closed 1930, some of the stations facade can still be seen supporting the ring road, and Thornhill closed in 1961. From June 1924 until February 1969 Dewsbury Station was known as Dewsbury Wellington Road.

These pictures were taken in April 2015 using a Polaroid is2132 bridge camera. The 11 pictures can also be seen on Clickasnap full size, resolution and un-watermarked where copies can also be purchased.

The station's Milton Walk entrance.

The connecting bridge is also a public right of way connecting Milton Walk
with the town centre via the station.

Platform 1.

Platform 2.

The West Riding Refreshment Rooms.

The station pictured from Wellington Road Bridge.

The station pictured from Platform 1.

The bridge is a fantastically maintained gem.

Taken from the end of Platform 2's canopy.

The bridge and platform 2 pictured from platform 1.

The connecting bridge taken from above platform 2.

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Ravensthorpe Railway Station

Ravensthorpe Railway Station is a small suburban stop on the Huddersfield Line between Mirfield and Dewsbury. West Yorkshire. A little used station with only 35342 passengers using it in 2018 - 19, approx. 680 people per week, you can't help but think it would be a much busier with station if platforms were added to the lines towards Wakefield which branch off just before arriving at Ravensthorpe. 

Opened in 1890 this was the 2nd station to serve the area with the first station opening in 1869 on the Ravensthorpe branch of the Spen Valley Line. This station was closed in 1962. This station was built with a good shed to attract freight traffic, some 42 years after the line was opened and quite grand station buildings which were listed prior to a fire which led to them being demolished and replaced by basic shelters. The station has a unique character which is hard to explain, it's location in an industrial suburb of Dewsbury means it should have the feel of a busy commuter but when your stood on the platforms you get the feel of rural countryside stop.

The station has basic facilities with limited shelters on both platforms, no toilets or ticket purchase machines. There are information boards and timetables, the station is unstaffed. Access to platform 2 is via the bridge and steps.

The pictures below were taken on December 30 2019, there are a total of which can also be seen on my ClickASnap account where they are full size, resolution and un-watermarked.

The lines to the left of the picture, there has never been a station serving
those line at this location, this may change as there are plans to demolish
and re-site the station just beyond the bridge in the picture, as part of plans to
put 4 tracks along this route.

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Hebden Bridge Railway Station, July 2018

Opened in October 1840, the station was the end of the line until New Years Eve 1840 when the line was completed to Summit Tunnel, Walsden. Trains through the tunnel to Manchester were in operation from March 1841 when services ran from Leeds to Manchester through the station. Services to Halifax and Bradford commenced in 1852. The current station buildings were completed in 1893, and the station car park was the site of the station goods yard until 1966. During renovation in 1997 signage was installed in the colours of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

The station is manned and has toilets and ticket facilities, it also features a small café and has access to buses immediately outside the main entrance. There is disabled access to the Leeds bond platform but currently access to platform 1, trains towards Lancashire and Manchester is only accessible via steps. There are plans to reinstate the lifts between the platforms which have been out of use since the 1980's. The station has 3 Manchester bound trains per hour and 1 towards Preston from Platform 1. Platform 2 has 4 Leeds bound services per hour, 3 via Bradford Interchange and another through Dewsbury.

 The pictures were taken with a Nikon d3300 on the 21st July 2018, they can be seen below with a number also available to view on Clickasnap un-watermarked. I took a set of pictures mainly featuring the westbound in August 2017, they can be seen in a earlier post.

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