Hipperholme railway station

Hipperholme
265px Site of Hipperholme railway station. The platforms stretched all the way to the tunnel mouth.
Location
Place	Hipperholme
Area	Calderdale
Coordinates
Grid reference	SE121254
Operations
Original company	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
17 August 1850	opened
8 June 1953	closed (passenger)
1966	closed (goods)
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Hipperholme railway station served the village of Hipperholme in West Yorkshire, England.

History

Hipperholme railway station was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on 17 August 1850. The station closed to passengers on 8 June 1953 and to goods in 1966. A campaign is under way to re-open the closed station or to have a new one built in the area to alleviate congestion in the Hipperholme area.

Route

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Halifax		L&Y Caldervale line		Lightcliffe

Calderdale Lines (Past, present and future)

Legend ( To Bradford ) ( To Bradford ) Queensbury Holmfield Bailiff Bridge Lightcliffe / Clifton Road Wheatley ( To Kirklees ) Ovenden Brighouse North Bridge Hipperholme Pellon Elland Power Station St Pauls Elland Halifax South Parade Greetland Shaw Syke Rochdale Road Halt Copley West Vale Stainland and Holywell Green Sowerby Bridge Watson's Crossing Halt Luddendenfoot Triangle Ripponden and Barkisland ( To Burnley ) Rishworth Portsmouth Mytholmroyd Cornholme Hebden Bridge Stansfield Hall Eastwood Todmorden Walsden ( To Rochdale )

External links

• Hipperholme station on navigable 1947 O. S. map
• Hipperholme railway station in 1962 on flikr
• Hipperholme railway station booking office in 1963 on flikr
• Hipperholme railway station in L&YR days