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37425 "Concrete Bob / Sir Robert McAlpine" is seen passing through Mytholmroyd Railway Station along with 37419 "Carl Haviland 1954 - 2012" on the rear working 3J01 10:50 Bradford Interchange to Hebden Bridge on the 8th October 2022.
Consist :- 642003, 642028.
© Andy Parkinson 2022 - No Unauthorised Use Please.
47424 "The Brontes Of Haworth" races through Mytholmroyd with the diverted 1M10 11:06 Newcastle to Liverpool Lime Street. 8/7/90. This was the last summer that the Calder Valley line was graced with loco-hauled Trans-Pennine diversions. The trains were formed of DMUs from the following January, so even if they were diverted, there wasn't much point in going out for them. Such a loss.
31319 & 31304 growl up the Calder Valley at Mytholmroyd with 6Z50 Humber to Glazebrook loaded tanks. 23/7/90.
156444 approaches Mytholmroyd station with a morning Leeds to Manchester Victoria service. 9/2/89. 156s has just taken over from 150s on these services at the time.
The Rochdale Canal in Mytholmroyd, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet width. The canal runs for 32 miles across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, when a group of 48 men from Rochdale raised £237 and commissioned James Brindley to conduct a survey of possible routes between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester.
The promoters, unsure as to whether to build a wide or a narrow canal, postponed the decision until an Act of Parliament had been obtained. The first two attempts to obtain an act failed after being opposed by mill owners, concerned about water supply. The promoters, to understand the mill owners' position, asked William Jessop to survey the parts of the proposed canal that were causing most concern. Jessop gave evidence to the Parliamentary committee, and in 1794 an act was obtained which created the Rochdale Canal Company and its construction. Rennie's estimated cost in the second bill was £291,000, and the company was empowered to raise the money by issuing shares, with powers to raise a further £100,000 if required.
When an Act of Parliament was sought in 1965, to authorise the abandonment of the canal, the Inland Waterways Association petitioned against it, and when it was finally passed, it contained a clause that ensured the owners would maintain it until the adjacent Ashton Canal was abandoned. Discussion of the relative merits of restoring the canal or the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in 1973 led the formation of societies to promote both schemes in 1974.
The Rochdale Canal Society wanted to see the canal fully re-opened, as part of a proposed Pennine Park. They worked hard both to protect the line of the canal and to begin the process of refurbishing it. A new organisational structure was created in 1984, with the formation of the Rochdale Canal Trust.
In 1997, the Rochdale Canal Trust was restructured, in response to announcements that there might be large grants available as part of the millennium celebrations. The canal was still at this point owned by a private company, and the Millennium Commission would not make grants to a scheme which was for private profit, rather than public benefit. The restructuring would allow the Trust to take over responsibility for the canal. However, the plan was rejected by the Commission, and to access the grant of £11.3 million, the Waterways Trust took over ownership of the canal.
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141111 pulls away from the Mytholmroyd stop with a Leeds to Hebden Bridge turn-back service. 20/3/91. It seems surprising to see the signal gantry still in place at the west end of Mytholmroyd station. If I'd been asked, I would have said that it had been pulled down long before this. The station was rebuilt and the platforms extended later that year.
Locomotive(s) :- 60095.
Working :- 6E32 08:55 Colas Ribble Rail to Lindsey Oil Refinery Colas.
Location :- Mytholmroyd Railway Station.
Date :- 29th June 2018.
Time :- 11:38:31.
Consist :- 7077900185, 7077900128, 7077900037, 7077900235, 7077900045, 7077900243, 7077900276, 7077900003, 7077900177, 7077900193, 7077900094, 7077900284, 7077900151.
© Andy Parkinson 2018 - No Unauthorised Use Please.
Thornaby Depot "pets" were almost de-rigeur on the 6E31 Weaste to Port Clarence oil train in the 1980s. Here 47361 "Wilton Endeavour", in very non-standard livery, heads east past Mytholmroyd under a threatening sky. 21/10/87.
31121 passes Mytholmroyd with 4M06 10:35 Heaton to Red Bank newspaper empties. 22/2/87. This was a booked Saturday working, as Michael captured here, although 31s weren't as common as Type 4 power.
142076 leaves Mytholmroyd "old" station with the 19:30 Leeds to Manchester Victoria service. 28/5/88.
Class 114 DMU, E53047/E54007 leaves Mytholmroyd with 2E13 11:55 Manchester Victoria to York. 4/5/87.
150202 leaves Mytholmroyd while working the diverted 1E58 15:15 Manchester Victoria to Hull. 8/4/90.
47194 "Bullidae" forges uphill through Mytholmroyd at the head of 6M54 Leeds to Stanlow tanks on the 24th July 1990.
On the face of it Pacer 142082 seems an odd choice to be running the 15.47 Blackpool North to York service. Those doing the full journey will have had a somewhat uncomfortable trip. Seen here some 90 minutes into the journey passing the station at Mytholmroyd. 21/5/1988
47331 is seen near Mytholmroyd with 7M37 10:11 Torksey to Stanlow tanks. 29/5/87. Torksey Oil Terminal closed the following year. Incidentally Michael spent six hours that day at the lineside around Mytholmroyd and got photos of five freights and a newspaper train. I don't think you'd see that many of the former at this spot today.
141106 & 155343 pass non-stop through Mytholmroyd with 1E80 11:46 Blackpool North to York. 17th July 1989. This turn regularly produced this configuration of units at the time.
158906 approaches Mytholmroyd station with an ECS working from Neville Hill to Manchester Victoria. 30/6/91. It was omewhat unusual to capture one of these units working ECS in the Calder Valley.
I took this photo on Friday 13th January 2017. Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd, at the top of Pismire Hill. Click on the photo to view Fullscreen.
Back onto the treacherously fast road to Mytholmroyd . As I walked along the road/waters edge i noticed how much the road had collapsed since last time I was up there ... To be safe I crossed over to the other side of the road where I came across this .... so took a shot... "SPEED KILLS" .....
37419 "Carl Haviland 1954 - 2012" is seen passing through Mytholmroyd Railway Station bringing up the rear of the 3J01 10:50 Bradford Interchange to Hebden Bridge on the 8th October 2022.
Consist :- 642003, 642028.
© Andy Parkinson 2022 - No Unauthorised Use Please.
141102 passes Mytholmroyd while working a route-learning special. 9/3/93. I don't know which route the people on board were learning, as Michael didn't record it - if he knew.
56119 thunders up the Calder Valley at Mytholmroyd with 6M21 09.55 Blyth to Ellesmere Port. 24/7/90.
Mytholmroyd a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
Mytholmroyd was recorded in the 13th century as "Mithomrode" and in the 17th century as "Mitholmroide". The name means 'a clearing for settlement, where two rivers meet', likely derived from the Old English.
A Bronze Age urnfield exists on the moor top, north of Mytholmroyd. It is a burial ground with cremation urns, dating between the 16th and 11th centuries BC of national importance. Evidence of pre-historic farming is apparent because they cleared the upland forests for cattle grazing and created the peat moorlands. Most of the Celtic Iron Age settlements were concentrated on the hillside terraces which avoided the wooded and poorly drained valley floors. Most of the older listed buildings are located on the hillsides away from the valley. A Roman coin hoard has been found to the south of Mytholmroyd.
During the late 18th century, the valley to the south, known as Cragg Vale, was home to a gang of counterfeiters known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. The gang's leader, David Hartley, or King David as he was known, was found guilty of the 1769 murder of excise official William Dighton and was hanged at the York Tyburn on 28 April 1770. Two other gang members were also executed for their part in the murder. Recently local resident and writer Benjamin Myers wrote a novel charting their story, "The Gallows Pole" which went on to win the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction in 2018.
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Looking over the town of Mytholmroyd and Cragg Vale from the moors high up in the Calder Valley; in West Yorkshire, UK.
Taken June 2021
A naked bird-king with Irish blues
rose up to be Y Dryw the Joiners son
He stacked the sea to green jade through tidal tongues
and fixed obsidian to nocturne's pitch-pine gum
He hewed his sylvan dwellers hearth
with a Stone cutters bile down a pit prop shaft.
Up, up into the daylight
She gave birth on Primrose Hill
For a Tall Jar full of Charcoal lilies and
golden pills, these were for the chorus sung
In the Sun, coming South to sit upon
Carn Coney Hill with Bumble Bee songs
Where one and one did become
A tree on the un-forested Mountain.
142071 leaves Mytholmroyd while working 2T04 06:15 Hebden Bridge to Leeds "turn-back" service. 18/6/87. I defy anyone to come up with a photo of a Pacer taken this early in a morning! I can only assume that Michael was on his way to work and stopped off to take a few photos in the cracking early-morning light.