The following are primarily about the [[Meltham Branch Line]]…
Blog Posts
- The Meltham Branch Line (06/May/2015)
— an initial overview of the former branch line, including a description of the route - Cutting the First Sod of the Meltham Branch Line (April 1864)
— includes a contemporary description of the route of the line - “Lockwood Viaduct” by Brian Fawcett
- Accidents, injuries and deaths on the Meltham Branch Line: 1860-1869
- Accidents, injuries and deaths on the Meltham Branch Line: 1870-1889
- Accidents, injuries and deaths on the Meltham Branch Line: 1890 onwards
Newspaper Articles
- The Engineer (13/Jul/1860) – Notes from the Northern and Eastern Counties
- :HC: (21/Jul/1860) – The Projected Branch Railway to Meltham and Meltham Mills
- :HC: (20/Oct/1860) – Meltham: Railway for Meltham and South Crosland
- :HC: (27/Oct/1860) – Meltham: Railway for Meltham and South Crosland
- :HC: (23/Mar/1861) – Meltham
- :HC: (17/May/1862) – Sale by Tender: Meltham Railway
- Leeds Mercury (05/Apr/1864) – Cutting the First Sod of a Line of Rails from Huddersfield to Meltham
- :HC: (09/Apr/1864) – Meltham: Cutting the First Sod of the Railway
- :HC: (30/Apr/1864) – Lockwood: The Railway
- :HC: (21/Jan/1865) – Magistrates in Petty Sessions: Assaulting a Policeman
- :HC: (15/Apr/1865) – Meltham: Navvies’ Tea Party
- :HC: (15/Apr/1865) – Lockwood: The Local Board
- :HC: (13/May/1865) – The Footpath and the Railway Company
- :HC: (13/May/1865) – Lockwood Local Board Meeting
- :HC: (17/Jun/1865) – Lockwood: Local Board Meeting
- :HC: (12/May/1866) – Netherton: Singular Escape, Two Men Shot in a Tunnel
- Manchester Guardian (02/Aug/1866) – Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
- :HC: (15/Sep/1866) – Netherton: The Railway
- :HC: (06/Oct/1866) – Landslip on the Meltham Railway
- :HC: (11/May/1867) – Netherton: Meltham Railway
- :HC: (16/Nov/1867) – Lockwood: The Local Board Meeting
- :HC: (25/Apr/1868) – The Meltham Branch Railway, Forced Removal of Bentley Shaw, Esq., from Woodfield House
- Manchester Guardian (09/Feb/1869) – Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company
- Manchester Guardian (11/Feb/1869) – Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
- :HC: (29/May/1869) – Meltham: Inspection of the Branch Line of Railway
- The Engineer (09/Jul/1869) – Railway Matters
- :HC: (10/Jul/1869) – Opening of the Branch Line of Railway to Meltham
- :HDC: (20/Jun/1874) – Local and District News: Closing of Woodfield Station
- :HDE: (11/Jun/1915) – Netherton Trooper Killed
- Yorkshire Post (17/Jun/1950) – Reopened for a Day
- Manchester Guardian (07/May/1951) – Forty Years On and the First Passenger Train Arrives
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (14/Jan/2014) – Wood Trail is on Track
Further Reading
- Branchlines of the L.&Y.R. No.5: The Meltham Branch (1987) by Barry C. Lane, published by The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society