Ovenden railway station

Ovenden
Ovenden railway station platform building (right). The running lines were to the right of the platform building.
Location
Place	Ovenden
Area	Calderdale
Coordinates	53°44′25″N 1°52′27″W / 53.74022°N 1.87413°W / 53.74022; -1.87413Coordinates: 53°44′25″N 1°52′27″W / 53.74022°N 1.87413°W / 53.74022; -1.87413
Grid reference	SE084271
Operations
Original company	Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
2 June 1881	Opened
23 May 1955	Closed to passengers
23 May 1955	Closed completely
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Ovenden railway station served the village of Ovenden in West Yorkshire, England. It was on the Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway, and closed in 1955. Because of the local area at Ovenden the L&Y and the GN did not think it was important to have a nice station so it was built of timber, ironically it is the only station building which still exists, far outliving the stone buildings. Just along the line from Ovenden Station was Lee Bank tunnel.^[1]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
North Bridge		L&Y / GNR Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway		Holmfield

[v · d · e]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 )

References

1. ^ Wignall, C. J. (1985). Complete British Railways Maps and Gazetteer 1825–1985 (Revised edition ed.). Poole, Dorset: Oxford Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 0-86093-294-X. 

• Bairstow, Martin (1987). The Manchester and Leeds Railway: The Calder Valley Line. Halifax: Martin Bairstow. p. 28. ISBN 1-87194-422-8. 

External links

• Ovenden station on navigable 1947 O. S. map