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DerekC

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A bit doubtful about this one because it was only 150 -200 yards from the current station of Outwood, but it was of a different era, so:

Lofthouse and Outwood (1858 - 1960)

Calthrop said:
(Just) on the direct GNR line Dudley Hill (2nd and more prominent) -- Low Moor: Dudley Hill (1st) is avoided by our route. This is, once more, per Dewick's Complete Atlas of Railway Station Names...
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The "Lost Railways of West Yorkshire" page on this line has a number of notes on the station one of which says:

Dudley Hill had a station from when the line to Gildersome was built. The first building was a twin gabled construction of the same style as the others on the line. It was relocated at least once to it's later junction site so as to facilitate the burrowing junction to Low Moor. I cannot confirm that this junction used the land on which the actual old station was built, but it did take the land on which the stationmaster's house was built, as this had been built on the Wakefield main road.
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The page also has a copy of part of an 1850 OS map which when you orient it relative to later maps, suggests that the first station was actually on the line to Gildersome and Ardsley, beside an overbridge south of Tong Lane and about 1/4 mile from the second site. This bears further investigation, I think, because it doesn't seem to be documented clearly anywhere.
 
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DerekC said:
The "Lost Railways of West Yorkshire" page on this line has a short note which says:

The page also has a copy of part of an 1850 OS map which when you orient it relative to later maps, suggests that the first station was actually on the line to Ardsley, beside an overbridge south of Tong Lane and about 1/4 mile from the second site. This bears further investigation, I think, because it doesn't seem to be documented clearly anywhere.
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Re "the Dudley Hill's": as I often observe, Mr. Dewick -- though indefatigable at his work -- would seem not to know as much as he thinks he does !

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Fitzwilliam Halt (1937 - 1967) (about 200 yards north west of the current station of Fitzwilliam)

Calthrop said:
Re "the Dudley Hill's": as I often observe, Mr. Dewick -- though indefatigable at his work -- would seem not to know as much as he thinks he does !
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He put us on the scent of this one, though!!
 
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