Railways
The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available. Please feel free to add or update with any additional information. |
Information about railways in West Yorkshire can be found on the Lost Railways of West Yorkshire website. This website includes plans of the railway networks indentifying the companies which operated each line and station.
Guidance for identifying records can be found on the National Archives website in the subject guides Looking for Records of a Railway Company and Looking for Records of a Railway Worker.
Records held by WYAS
Description | Dates | Catalogue Reference |
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Batley, records re incorporation of Batley Borough including evidence re sewerage, railways and other local matters | 1861-1869 | KA97 |
Batley, Great Northern Railway station, records 1893-1940 including record of goods conveyed on passenger trains 1894-1897 | 1893-1940 | KC144 |
Dewsbury, byelaws re locomotives 1901 and re light railways 1904 | 1901 & 1904 | KA184/1 & 3 |
Huddersfield, map of projected railways in Huddersfield area including proposed West Riding Union Railway to Halifax and Bradford | c.1846 | KC675 |
Huddersfield and district, plans and sections re railways for
Parliamentary sessions |
1866-1882 | KA107 |
Huddersfield station, plans and elevations | 1884-1951 | KX272 |
Huddersfield, Town Clerk's file re railway junction at Red Doles | 1915-1924 | KA86 |
Huddersfield, plan of London and North Western Railway from Red Doles to
Heaton Lodge Junction and to Bradley Hall |
n.d. | KC351 |
Liversedge, Spen Goods depot, records | 1892-1900 | KC94 |
Rastrick, plan of proposed widening of Todmorden to Brighouse railway | 1900 | DD/T/pl/11 |
West Yorkshire, map of railway lines 1834-1983, surveyed by "Missing Link"
1983 and copied by E Bates |
1983 | MC6 |
Denby Grange Colliery, memorandum of construction of railway line from
colliery to Wakefield- Barnsley railway and to Calder and Hebble Navigation, with estimates and measurements |
1853-1854 | KX258 |
Huddersfield and District Signalmens Testimonial Fund, records including minutes | 1938-1971 | ZKC812 |
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Co, ninth call on shares,
certificate |
1848 | KC783 |
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, plan and section of part of line,
probably in Mirfield area |
1890 | KC352 |
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co, holiday contract ticket issued to
M Whitaker for travel in Lancashire and Westmorland |
1934 | KC437 |
London and North Western Railway, plan and section of line at Heaton Lodge
Road near Huddersfield |
1891 | KC352 |
John Crossley Armstrong, certificate that he worked as a clerk at Lockwood
station during the General Strike |
1926 | KC198 |
W B Stocks, railway enthusiast, Huddersfield, records 1860-1982 including
diaries 1943-1946, diary re Heatherfield Light Railway (built in his garden) 1977-1978, newspaper cutting books re railways 1860-1875, 1930-1982, reports re accidents 1952-1953, guides and souvenirs 1925-1979, photographs 1955-1978 |
20th century | KC435 |
Whitley Beaumont estate, plans re line of Manchester and Leeds Railway
over estate land in Calder Valley |
1843-1845 | DD/WBE/pl/7 |
Whitley Beaumont estate, plans drawn 1909 of property at Lockwood conveyed
to Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1849 |
1909 | ZDD/WBE/pl/20 |
Whitley Beaumont estate, map showing property at Colne Bridge and Upper
Heaton sold to London and North Western Railway and Huddersfield Corporation |
n.d. | DD/WBE/pl/16 |