Catalogue description Huddersfield, plan of London and North Western Railway from Red Doles to Heaton Lodge Junction and to Bradley Hall

HUDDERSFIELD, PLAN OF L. & N.W. RAILWAY, nd

London and North Western Railway Company, 1846 - 1923

Accessioned: 1988 Dec 1

Accession No: KC351

Computer No: KC351

• Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire
• Railway transport

The Railway Line linking Huddersfield with the Manchester and Leeds Railway at Heaton Lodge near Cooper Bridge was built by a local company, supported by the Huddersfield Canal Company. The Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company was granted permission by Parliament in April 1845 to build the line, and work commenced on 10th October, 1845 at Deighton. The line, including the viaduct over Huddersfield, was finished on 2nd August 1847, and the first train ran between Huddersfield and Heaton Lodge on that day.

The building of Huddersfield station had begun, meanwhile, in 1846.

The line was built at a high level rather then at the level of the river Colne, so as to enable it to be continued through the Pennines to join the Manchester-Sheffield line at Stalybridge.

In 1847 the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company, together with two other local transport companies, joined the London and North Western Railway Company and it was they who opened Huddersfield station in that year, and who eventually continued the line through Standedge to Stalybridge.