Brighouse Railway Station

• General Points

• Accidents at the Station

• Stationmasters at Brighouse

General Points

Brighouse station (from Hebden Bridge) opened 5th October 1840. The station was properly known as Brighouse (for Rastrick).

The station was originally called Brighouse & Bradford, as there was no station in Bradford at that time.

On 1st March 1841, the Manchester-Leeds railway line via Brighouse opened. On 31st March 1854, the Bradford-Halifax railway line via Brighouse opened.

In 1872, the station closed and was used as a goods depot. A new station was built on the other side of Huddersfield Road.

A telegraph office opened here on 1st February 1859.

The station closed on 3rd January 1970 when the 6:53 pm train from Kings Cross to Halifax and Bradford had passed through.

A new station reopened on 29th May 2000

Accidents at the Station

• In October 1899, porter Ernest Tidd was badly burned when he tried to revive the furnace which heated the Station
• On 28th November 1900, a mail train ran into a stationary goods train just outside the station.

• In October 1900, Fred Dean a booking clerk at the station hanged himself.

• In 1936, J. R. Turner was killed by an express train at the station

Stationmasters at Brighouse

Stationmasters at the Station have included

• William Morris [1867, 1871]
• Charles Pilling [1877]
• Alfred Mellor [1881]
• Charles Cornwell [1897]
• John Smith [1900]
• Edward Fitton [1911]

See Mafek, the Elephant, Railway Hotel, Rastrick, Royal Hotel, Brighouse and Walker's Coke

Page Ref: WW_115

search tips advanced search

site search by freefind