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Welshman

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Sorry, but there should be Elland and Greetland stations between Bradley & Luddenden Foot :)

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Xenophon PCDGS

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Sorry, but there should be Elland and Greetland stations between Bradley & Luddenden Foot :)

An utter and contrite apology

I can offer no excuses whatsoever for this inexplicable faux pas, as both of these two railway stations are very clearly shown on my hard-copy Manchester and Leeds Railway sectional leg draft with notes that Elland was opened in October 1840 and that Greetland was originally named North Dean and opened in 1844. I now see these as clear as possible in the cold light of day. My eyes just went straight down the draft from Bradley to Luddenden Foot, completely missing out both these two railway stations.

Even worse, because:-
1).. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is my favourite railway line.
2).. I am a member of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society.
3).. A certain forum member who shall remain nameless has this particular line section as home territory from his younger days.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

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For a change of railway line, let us take the junction to the Copy Pit line....


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Welshman

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You're keen to get back to Branwell Bronte at Luddenden Foot!

Yes - although I never had a chance to use Greetland station, I did use Elland several times in my youth!
It was a delightful little station with one island platform. David Holmes was stationmaster there, and he mentions it in his book "Stationmaster's Reflections"

WYPTE Metro wants to reopen it, but it keeps getting postponed.

Anyway, back to Copy Pit:-

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