Eastwood (L&Y) railway station

Eastwood
Eastwood
	Site of Eastwood station building, with level crossing to the right
General information
Location	Eastwood, Calderdale; England
Coordinates	53°43′50″N 2°03′01″W / 53.730660°N 2.050380°W
Grid reference	SD967260
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Manchester and Leeds Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 January 1841	Opened
3 December 1951	Closed

Eastwood Railway Station served the village of Eastwood in the civil parish of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England. The station opened with the line on New Years Day 1841 and was closed on 3 December 1951 by British Railways. Retaining walls in the cliff above the site, together with a substantial road access ramp, and the remains of adjacent coal drops can still be seen. In addition, the former vehicle-size level crossing has survived in reduced form, as a pedestrian crossing.

The signal box here survived for around 20 more years until its abolition as part of the Preston area resignalling scheme in 1972. A derailment in the (now removed) goods loop next to the westbound line in October 1986 blocked the route for over a week — heavy lifting equipment had to be brought in to recover several overturned coal hopper wagons from the scene, whilst a replacement bus service ran between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge stations.^[1]

References[edit]

^ "Mills, Transport & Industry"Charlestown History Group; Retrieved 19 November 2016

Bairstow, Martin (1987). The Manchester and Leeds Railway: The Calder Valley Line. Halifax: Martin Bairstow. p. 28. ISBN 1-871944-22-8.

External links[edit]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Todmorden Line and station open		L&YR Caldervale Line		Hebden Bridge Line and station open
Stansfield Hall Line open, station closed		L&YR Caldervale Line		Hebden Bridge Line and station open