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The first European to travel through the area was John McDouall Stuart, whose expedition pushed northward past present-day Oodnadatta and the waterholes along the Neales River in 1860. The Overland Telegraph was constructed in 1872, passing right through present-day Todmorden; this in turn led to the first pastoral leases being issued in the ...
Todmorden (/ ˈ t ɒ d m ər d ən / TOD-mər-dən; locally / ˈ t ɒ d m ɔːr d ən, ˈ t ɒ d m ər d ən, ˈ t ɔː m d ɪ n /) [1] [2] is a market town and civil parish [3] in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.
Todmorden railway station serves the town of Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England, originally on the Yorkshire and Lancashire border. It was built by the Manchester and Leeds Railway and is on the Calder Valley line 23 miles (37 km) west of Leeds and 17 miles (27 km) north-east of Manchester Victoria .
Stansfield Hall railway station (/ ˈ s t æ n s f iː l d / STANSS-feeld) was the second station in Stansfield, Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England and was situated on the Copy Pit line. It opened in 1869 and the last train called in 1944 but was not officially closed until 1949.
The courtroom was adapted for use as a council chamber after the building became the headquarters of Todmorden Urban District Council in 1894 and of Todmorden Borough Council in 1896. [ 10 ] [ 9 ] The town hall continued to be used as a public venue and concert performers included the contralto singer, Kathleen Ferrier , who made an appearance ...
Eastwood Railway Station served the village of Eastwood in the civil parish of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England. The station opened with the line on New Years Day 1841 and was closed on 3 December 1951 by British Railways. Retaining walls in the cliff above the site, together with a substantial road access ramp, and the remains of adjacent ...
There is a basic half-hourly service (with peak period extras) from the station to Manchester Victoria southbound and to Todmorden northbound on weekdays. From there, trains continue alternately to Blackburn via Burnley Manchester Road and to Leeds via Brighouse.
The line remains in use for passenger trains between York/Leeds and Blackpool, which run non-stop between Hebden Bridge and Burnley, and also for trains between Manchester and Blackburn, via Todmorden, utilising the reinstated Todmorden Curve. With the re-opening of the Todmorden Curve, there is now a campaign to open a station again at Cornholme.