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<br/>A small textile mill with a very plain facade, built against the hillside. Many of the mills along Bradford Road have a similar narrow frontage with the mill stretching back some distance.
©Alan Murray-Rust
<br/>A detailed view of the ornate stonework on this former textile mill. The complete facade looks like this.[[462938]]
©Alan Murray-Rust
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©Betty Longbottom
<br/>This is near to the southern terminus of the line, where there was a weighing machine and coal could be taken away by road, or by rail from the adjoining Batley Carr station. This is the only place where the track has survived. The railway is above the brick retaining wall. Note how the upper part of the wall is supported by a long series of arches, which extend for 150m up to Jack Lane. This would seem a more expensive method than building a solid wall, but there must have been a good reason for it - it certainly looks more attractive.
©Humphrey Bolton
<br/>This now leads to a car scrapyard. The line belonged to the GNR (later the LNER) and ran to Batley more-or-less parallel with the Manchester to Leeds line (LMSR).
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Narrow facades are typical of textile mills this particular area of Dewsbury. This is one of the more ornate examples.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Just across the way from the apartments of a recent mill conversion!(The funeral home was here first!)
©Oxana Maher
Dist:0.1km north<br/>The sad fate of the Birstall branch line off Bradford Road, as seen from the bridge carrying a public footpath over the former station, looking south. The tunnel emerges not far from Dewsbury town centre.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Looking towards Bradford Road from the footpath from Crackenedge Lane
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The opposite direction to [[440248]]. The modern factory buildings follow the same pattern of development as older premises with narrow frontages, but the use of brick rather than stone makes them look out of place.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Like many old Yorkshire mills, this one has been converted into stylish apartments.
©Oxana Maher
Dist:0.2km north<br/>A typical footpath in the steep-sided industrial valleys of Yorkshire, forming short-cuts which were too steep for road traffic. Immeditely before dropping down beneath the railway which can be seen here, the path is actually crossing over a second (disused and abandoned) railway, which is in tunnel at this point. The ventilation shaft [[440230]] for this tunnel can just be seen to the right of the lamppost.
©Alan Murray-Rust

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