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Old Boundary Marker
Parish Boundary Marker beside a public footpath at Boyle Hall. On the former boundary of Mirfield and Kirkheaton, now Kirkburton and Mirfield parishes. Inscribed M and K on opposite faces.
Milestone Society National ID: YW_KIRMIR04pb
Image: © D Garside
Taken: 5 Apr 2020
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Bridge over disused railway, Hopton, Mirfield
This bridge carries Woodend Road over what was the LMSR Huddersfield Branch line, a short-lived line from Lower Hopton to Huddersfield built to augment the capacity of the main line.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 30 Jun 2006
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Railway Bridge, Woodend Road, Hopton, Mirfield
This crosses the main line from Manchester to Leeds, and led originally to the Woodend and Victoria malt kilns. Later there was a pig farm, with an area of slurry lagoons that are probably used for fishing now. Currently the site is used by a haulage firm, but the lorries do not use this bridge!
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 18 Nov 2006
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Railway Bridge, Woodend Road, Lower Hopton
The western side of Bridge MVN2/191. See also
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Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 18 Sep 2008
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Railway Bridge, Woodend Road, Lower Hopton
Looking across Bridge MVN2/191. See also
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Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 18 Sep 2008
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Eastbound freight on Calder Valley main line approaching Mirfield
View NW, towards Manchester via Todborden (ex-L&Y) or via Huddersfield (ex-LNW) on the joint four-track main line through Mirfield, an eastbound Class H freight is headed by BR 9F 2-10-0 No. 92081 (built 5/56, withdrawn 2/66). (See also
Image] and other scenes in the vicinity).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 26 Jun 1964
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Up P.W. Engineers' train approaching Mirfield
View NW, as
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Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 29 Jul 1966
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Railway cutting, Mirfield
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 21 Mar 2015
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TWO eastbound empties trains on the Calder Valley main line west of Mirfield
View westward, towards Heaton Lodge Junction, Sowerby Bridge/Huddersfield, Todmorden and Manchester - see also
Image The locomotive visible is No. 49561, one of the 'Austin Seven' LMS 7F 0-8-0s which dominated these workings before the advent of the ex-War Department 2-8-0s.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 27 Apr 1950
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Leeds - Manchester stopping train passing Mirfield Locomotive Depot
View eastward, towards Mirfield, Leeds, Wakefield etc.: Calder Valley main line, ex-L&Y and LNW Joint four-track stretch (Heaton Lodge - Thornhill Junctions). The 13.15 Leeds City - Manchester Exchange, headed by Stanier 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45704 'Leviathan' (built 5/36, withdrawn 1/65), is being passed by an eastbound empties train on the right. On the left outside the Shed is one of the LMS Fowler 7F 0-8-0s which worked much of the intensive east-west coal traffic until scores of ex-WD 2-8-0s were brought to the district. In 1950 Mirfield (code 25D) had an allocation of 40 locomotives:- 12 (ex-WD) 2-8-0, 3 2-6-0, 6 0-8-0, 11 0-6-0, 6 2-6-4T and 2 0-6-0T.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 27 Apr 1950
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