Stansfield Hall railway station

Stansfield Hall railway station (English: /ˈstænsfiːld/) was the second station in 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.

Stansfield Hall
Approximate location of the former station (2010), looking towards Burnley
Location	Todmorden, Calderdale England
Coordinates	53.718580°N 2.094440°W
Grid reference	SD938246
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
August 1869	Station opened
31 July 1944	Last train
17 August 1949	Official closure

Stansfield Hall was of note as a calling point for some trains travelling between Halifax and Burnley,[1] because these could not call at the larger Todmorden station without a reversal.

References

Footnotes

1. "Disused stations: Stansfield Hall". Retrieved 8 August 2017.

Bibliography

• Bairstow, Martin (1987). The Manchester and Leeds Railway: The Calder Valley Line. Halifax: Martin Bairstow. p. 28. ISBN 1-871944-22-8.

External links

• Stansfield Hall station (shown closed) on navigable 1947 O. S. map

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Cornholme Line open, station closed		L&YR Copy Pit Line		Todmorden Line open, station open
				Eastwood Line open, station closed

Calderdale Lines
Past, present and future
to Bradford to Bradford Queensbury Holmfield Bailiff Bridge Lightcliffe Clifton Road Ovenden to Kirklees North Bridge Brighouse Hipperholme Pellon Elland Power Station Halifax St Pauls Elland Halifax Town South Parade Greetland Shaw Syke Rochdale Road Halt Copley West Vale Stainland and Holywell Green Sowerby Bridge Luddendenfoot Watson's Crossing Mytholmroyd Triangle to Burnley Ripponden and Barkisland Portsmouth Rishworth Cornholme Hebden Bridge Stansfield Hall Eastwood Todmorden Walsden to Rochdale