In the background sits the steam shed and on the opposite side of the tracks are the chimneys of terraced housing typical of West Yorkshire’s mill towns.
It’s a sunny spring day in 1959 and the engine, Jubilee number 45564 New South Wales, is providing…
Just after 9am on September 6 1993, an out of control lorry carrying tonnes of stone collided with a car and a BT van on a steep hill in Sowerby Bridge.[1]
The 30-tonne runaway lorry and the BT van hit three women and a child on the pavement before cra…
Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin (Photo: Ian Forsyth)
Train companies are pressing ahead with plans to close hundreds of facilities at stations across England over the next three years.
Almost 85 per cent of the region’s ticket offices would c…
Did you work here back in the day? Halifax Direct Call Centre on Water Lane which opened in September 1995. (Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net)Halifax Direct, a call centre on Water Lane was launched with hundreds of workers servicing the 24 hours…
The M1 motorway near junction 39 (file image)Officers from the roads policing unit would like to speak to anyone who saw a collision between a Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Corsa between junctions 39 and 40 southbound at about 8.29am.The incident took pla…
TfL says there will be some travel disruption this weekendLondoners travelling into the capital this weekend could be faced with disruption due to closures on TfL services.Transport for London (TfL) has asked Londoners to check before they travel this …
Calderdale Council[1] said late last year that a three tonnes (3T) restriction would be put in place at Jumples Crag in Mixenden.
But residents still remain concerned for their safety, saying an HGV[2] crashed on the narrow, steep road only last month…
M1 – Road closed and queueing traffic due to crash, two lorries involved on M1 Northbound from J39 A636 Denby Dale Road (Wakefield[1] / Durkar) to J40 A638 Wakefield Road (Ossett[2] / Wakefield). Congestion to Woolley Edge Services. Slow traffic on ro…
As a result,we have two railway stations,both termini: the Interchange,which is modern,bleak and inadequate, approximately nine miles from Leeds, and Forster Square,approximately three miles from Shipley -which can be seen to have an air of faded grand…
Bradford Forster Square Railway Station would see one of the ticket office closuresPLANS to shut ticket offices at rail stations have been hammered by West Yorkshire[1] councillors, who’ve branded them “appalling” and “inhuman”.Only three West Yorkshir…
Professional driver Derek Whitworth, who had no previous convictions or driving offences on his licence, was charged after a fatal collision at the junction of Queens Road and Hanson Lane, Halifax, on the morning of July 6, 2021.
Bradford[1] Crown Cour…
The steady humming noise of rolling tyres and passing trucks is unmistakable in parts of Ainley Top.[1]
The culprit is, of course, the M62[2] which has a daily traffic flow of around 140,000 vehicles in West Yorkshire – and is prone to regular gridlock…
A Yorkshire rugby club have announced that a former player has tragically died at the age of just 33.
The Halifax Panthers announced in an emotional Facebook post that former player Ben Heaton had passed away suddenly last night, Thursday June 22.
The …
A long time before these scenes it was a bit more industrial for Manchester City
Manchester has wonderfully eccentric stories to tell. We’ll be revealing these as an occasional series.
This is Manchester City’s week (even grudging United fans in the…