[16238] Saltaire Station

Saltaire Railway Station, West Yorkshire.

Class 333 - 333018 - at Saltaire on 9 Sept 2013.

Saltaire Station was originally opened in 1856 by the Midland Railway which had absorbed the Leeds & Bradford Extension Railway between Shipley and Colne in 1851. It closed in 1965 and was reopened in 1984.

 

The British Rail Class 333 is a class of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger train built by CAF between 2000 and 2003 for Northern Spirit (later Arriva Trains Northern), with traction equipment supplied by Siemens Transportation Systems. All have passed to subsequent franchises and subsequent operators Northern Rail, Arriva Rail North and Northern Trains.

 

Saltaire Village.

Established as a World Heritage Site in 2001, Saltaire village was originally founded in 1853 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry.

 

He built a new factory, Saltaire Mills, and around it a model village for his workers. The new stone houses were a huge improvement on the slums of nearby Bradford and the village also had its own bathhouses, hospital, school, library, church, reading room, concert hall, gymnasium, almshouses, allotments and park. Conditions for the workers at Salt’s Mill were substantially better than for those at nearby mills, even though the hours they worked would still have been long and arduous.

 

Sir Titus died in 1876 and was interred in the mausoleum adjacent to the church he funded in Saltaire.

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