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Northern 'Civity' Class 195/0 No. 195009 arrives at Mytholmroyd Station, working the 1B21, 09:57 Leeds to Preston Service on 8th April 2021.
Waiting to leave Mytholmroyd in the Calder Valley is a service to Leeds comprising refurbished Northern Class 158 No. 158756 on 12 May 2017.
The 11.14 services to both Leeds and Manchester Vic set off from Mytholmroyd. Heading for Manchester Vic in light rain is No. 158759, while travelling east is No. 158860. 12 May 2017.
Oldham Ramblers Walk starting at Mytholmroyd - January 2011.
Taken with a Fuji Real 3d W1 digital stereoscopic camera.
Rochdale Canal, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.
Between Bridge 13 & Broadbottom Lock No 7, looking west.
The Rochdale Canal runs for 33 miles between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge. In Sowerby Bridge it connects with the Calder and Hebble Navigation. In Manchester it connects with the Ashton and Bridgewater Canals.
The canal opened through to Manchester in 1804. This made it the first trans-Pennine canal route. It remained profitable for some time but by the 20th century the tonnage being carried was in sharp decline. In 1937 the last boat made the through journey across the Pennines on the Rochdale Canal.
In 1952, the canal was closed apart from the short section between Castlefield and the Ashton Canal junction at Piccadilly. The Ashton was abandoned in 1962 and by 1965 the nine locks on the Rochdale through Manchester city centre were almost unusable. Enthusiastic supporters re-opened the Ashton in 1974 and the Rochdale Canal in Manchester was made good.
The Rochdale Canal Society was formed to promote the restoration of the canal and in the 1980s and 1990s small scale work began to re-open stretches of the canal between Todmorden and Sowerby Bridge. This involved restoring bridges and locks to navigable condition.
The most major project was the construction of the new Tuel Lane lock and tunnel in Sowerby Bridge. The lock replaced two locks in an infilled section and, with a fall of almost 20 feet, is the deepest lock on the inland waterways system. In 1996 the canal was opened to navigation once again between Sowerby Bridge and the summit level.
The canal was re-opened to navigation along its entire length in July 2002 and forms part of the South Pennine Ring.