Low Moor No.1 Jct. - Low Moor No.5 Jct.
Date Closed to Passenger Services
1 Jan 1962
Mileage Closed
0m 28c*
Stations Closed
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Services Operated
Summer dated services - see Notes below
Timetable Reference
BR(NE) 12 Jun - 10 Sep 61 Tables 21 & 30; 11 Sep 61 - 17 Jun 62 Tables 20 & 27
Cobb Atlas Reference
383 16 28 - 16 27
Map
RCH RJD 8 1913
Further Notes
ACD - Mon 01/01/1962 - PNM 1980 p61. No Sunday service, LTR - Sat 30/12/1961 - see below.
BR (NE) 12 Jun - 10 Sep 1961 Tables 21 & 30 show SO 17/06/1961 - 12/08/1961 - 8 5am Wakefield (Kirkgate) - Blackpool (Central) via Thornhill/Heckmondwike/Halifax; SO 17/06/1961 - 26/08/1961 - 9 35am Sowerby Bridge - Bridlington via Halifax/Heckmondwike/Thornhill.
Also undated Weekdays 1 30pm Blackpool (Central) - Wakefield (Kirkgate) via Halifax/Heckmondwike/Thornhill. It continued to run in BR (NE) 11 Sep 1961 - 17Jun 1962 Tables 20 & 27 as an undated Weekdays service and this would have been the last regular service over this section of line operating at the time of withdrawal.
On the basis of the ACD quoted and the above timetable information, LTR would have been Sat 30/12/1961.
See Heckmondwike Central Jct. - Thornhill No.1 (Heckmondwike) Jct.
*RCH YN 1921.
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