Luddendenfoot Gallery 3: 1963 - April 2017

The coal drops at Luddendenfoot station are seen in 1963.
Photo from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society collection

Looking north from Blackwood Hall Lane over the railway goods yard at Luddendenfoot circa 1963. The single-road goods warehouse is in the foreground. A couple of wagons can be seen in the formerly busy yard, now demoted to a public delivery siding. The up passenger platform is visible far left.
Photo from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society collection

A cart, bearing its owner’s name and address, is languishing in Luddendenfoot station goods
yard circa 1963.
Photo from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society collection

Luddendenfoot station building looking south across the forecourt after closure – circa 1963. The north-western ramp of the down platform is immediately beyond the white fence. Passengers reached the up platform (where the timber building with an awning is seen) by means of the footbridge. Immediately beyond the footbridge is the steeply sloping Blackwood Hall Lane which crosses over the railway.
Photo from from Pennine Horizons Digital Archive - Atack collection

The site of Luddendenfoot station looking south-east in February 1971. Since closure to passengers in 1962 a thorough demolition job has been accomplished. The station building formerly stood on the left this (down) side of the bridge and the up platform waiting rooms were on the right backing onto the retaining wall.
Photo by John Mann

Loking east across Luddendenfoot's extensive goods yuard in May 1972. The yard closed seven years earlier but the indentation left by the sleepers is still clearly seen on the right.
Photo by David R Ball

Looking north-west from Blackwood Hall Lane bridge at the site of Luddendenfoot station and goods yard in April 2007.
Photo by Mark Anderson, reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence

In May 2010, the two gate pillars that have survived at the site of the entrance to Luddendenfoot station coal yard are seen. At least one of them has been resited as they were originally much closer together - see earlier undated picture.
Photo by Humphrey Bolton, reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence

On 8 October 2015 Class 158 DMU No.158 753 is seen travelling towards Hebden Bridge past the site of Luddendenfoot station’s up platform, of which nothing remains. The goods warehouse stood ahead and to the right; the modern industrial building in the foreground occupies part of its site.
Photo by Alan YoungClass 155 DMU 155 344 forming the 10.26 from Leeds is seen on 25 April 2017 at the site of Luddendenfoot station between its calls at Sowerby Bridge and Mytholmroyd. The platforms extended on both sides of Blackwood Hall Lane bridge, from which this photo was taken, although it is difficult to believe that there was sufficient space to accommodate them in the narrow cutting. The remains of brackets that supported an awning can be seen protruding from the retaining wall on the left.
Photo by Alan Young

Looking east from Blackwell Hall Lane bridge, Luddendenfoot, in April 2017. The remains of the down platform’s awning brackets can still be seen on the retaining wall.
Photo by Alan Young