Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: LNWR

No, it's not some long-lost Byzantine or Roman ruins in the middle of the former West Riding but the architecture is almost as impressive in my opinion. It is, in fact, a masterpiece of Victorian engineering, the Heckmondwike - and what a great Yorkshire name that is - railway Cutting on the former LNWR Leeds New Line opened in 1900. Three of the 6 bridges over the deep stone-walled cutting are in this view. The route was also referred to as the Spen Line. Despite the expenditure and effort, after the 1923 Grouping & nationalisation it was considered as an unnecessary duplicate of the LYR/LNWR line to Leeds. Passenger services ceased in the 1950s with full closure in stages between 1960 and 1990. Today it is a cycle and footpath known as the Spen Valley Ringway. The houses just in view through the last bridge were built on the site of Heckmondwike Spen station which closed in 1953. HWW to everyone. Have a great day.

A rusting fence to an LNWR footbridge over the Leeds New Line at Heaton Lodge, Huddersfield. HFF to everyone. Enjoy your weekend.

Keep Rollin', Rollin', Rollin', Though the streams are swollen, Keep them dawwgies rollin', Rawhide! Alongside the closed ex-LNWR Northampton to Market Harborough railway line, today known as the Brampton Valley Way foot/cyclepath. HFF & have a great weekend.

The London & North Western Railway wrought iron and lattice footbridge over the Standedge Route tracks at Millbrook dates back to the 19th century. It is clearly a standard LNWR design because the surviving footbridge over that railway's "New Line" at Heaton Lodge Junction near Huddersfield is of exactly the same construction. HFF & have a great weekend (Can it really be a week since the last HFF??)

Heading for a pint in the Head of Steam pub, off to the left, I felt obliged to get a night-time shot of Huddersfield's splendid 1850 London & North Western Railway frontage. Described as the only VIctorian stately home with trains running through it...

Bangor railway Station, North Wales. Diesel Class 24 5039 on a west-bound sheeted freight waits on the signal while 5030 shunts a parcels train past the London & North Western Railway signal box at Whit 1973. The semaphore signals are still active but the platform-end water tank had just been felled. The remains can be seen to the left of the railwayman. Bangor station is located between two tunnels, the one seen here takes the line westwards towards Holyhead.