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Leaving the suburbs of Huddersfield on a glorious March morning, a Transpennine Class 68 passes through the cuttings at Branch Street at 7:20 am with the service to Liverpool.
Little did we know at the time what was ahead within the next couple of weeks.
1F52 05:34 Scarborough to Liverpool Lime Street.
12th March 2020
Curiously looped on the main-line, so requiring a succession of Trans Pennine passenger services to pass on the slower loop line, Freightliner Shed 66604 finally makes its getaway from Marsden some 10 minutes behind schedule with the 11.41am Hunslet Tilcon - Tunstead Sidings (6M22).
It's captured here crossing the Huddersfield Narrow Canal before it plunges into the 4803m long Standedge Tunnel which sees the train enter in Yorkshire and exit in Lancashire, or more latterly, Greater Manchester.
Not to be outdone the canal also passes under the hillside in a tunnel constructed some years earlier (1811) and, at a length of 5189m, was the longest and most expensive canal tunnel ever constructed in the UK. For a small price would be adventurers can take a ride on a narrow boat through the tunnel from the Visitor Centre just below - and enjoy it in all its darkness and claustrophobic glory while being silently thankful that working conditions these days are rather more benign!
2.59pm, 25th February 2019
A special one night only showing of the Aurora over Huddersfield. Absolutely breathtaking but over town so a bit of light pollution too. Still a very special event though.
Nighttime drone shot of Huddersfield Railway Station and St. George’s Square, The George Hotel which was the birthplace of Rugby League is just right of centre.
A pair of 153 "Dogboxes" cross over the impressive Denby Dale Viaduct on there way to Sheffield from Huddersfield on the Penistone Line.
This is several merged light trail photos but when I was merging the layers I used the wrong operator and ended up with the rather wacky image you see here.
Huddersfield Open Market was opened in the 1880's as the towns wholesale fruit and vegetable market until 1979 when it was closed for re-furbishment.
Plans have been submitted for a 16.5 million revamp to become a combined market and events space.
More info here: huddersfieldhub.co.uk/plans-have-been-submitted-for-the-n...
A pair of tractors on an unknown quest at Huddersfield, 1984 I think. I must have been in a hurry, I've left the car door open, on a double yellow line!
The Market is part of The Huddersfield Blueprint and will form part of the Cultural Heart of that plan.
This shot through the fence, a worms eye view, is showing the start of Huddersfield New Library which sits adjacent to the new food hall.
More information on the Library here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72gd7k4kxro
More Information here: www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/huddersfield-blueprint/pdf/hudde...
Here also is a short video from Kirklees Council showing a fly through The Cultural Heart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANGWW2qj-9E
The mossy wall of Yorkshire.; At Blackmoorfoot reservoir.
A photo for Gary Wain.
Discovered in Linthwaite, Huddersfield
With the recent partial introduction of new stock on the Trans Pennine services I thought it fitting to upload an image from the archive that goes back a good few years.
What springs to mind here is that my memories of services from that time were of locomotive hauled stock in rakes of at least seven coaches. Clearly I didn't take too much notice of the stopping services and had forgotten about the use of two car DEMU's. Maybe we have moved a step forward over the intervening years.