DRONE Update: Mirfield Station, Transpennine Route Upgrade

Join me as I continue a series of videos where I look at the Transpennine Route Upgrade around Huddersfield mainly by drone. In this video I'm looking the current works at Mirfield Station. We get a unique view of the work from 50m up in the air
More videos coming soon for different points around Huddersfield linked to the Transpennine Route Upgrade

[@suesmith4366]

Thanks for this great footage, shame it’s demise happened. It was a lovely station, fully staffed those were good times. I used to go up in the lift with my Mother siblings and one in a pram.
The lift was never broken, they just didn’t want to pay someone to operate it or to maintain it. 😔

[@i_and_g_adventures]

Same story at a lot of stations, often just glorified bus shelters now

[@suesmith4366]

@@i_and_g_adventures very true 😔

[@darleytransportandtravel6353]

Thank you for making this video. Your drone footage makes so clear of the progress of this huge project. I have memories of Mirfield station from the 1950s with its gas lights and waiting rooms with coal fires. Its goods lift and bay platforms. Now its all change again for Mirfield!

[@i_and_g_adventures]

Thanks, I tried to find old images of Mirfield Station but could only find one of the shed which I included

[@mikeswift6713]

Hi, love tyour videos about the upgrade and living in Kirkheaton found this one especially interesting.
You have also solved a 70 year old mystery for me.
As a 7 year old in 1954 I lost a leg in an accident and had to go to Chappell Allerton hospital for my prosthetic limb to be fitted and updated.
During the Suez crisis in 1956 we were asked to save petrol by making our own way there and my retired granddad took me on the first trip by bus which took several hours.
The next time he used the train which continued until I was old enough to take myself and then use my car.
The mystery was that the train was always a stopper and it called at a station with a platform to the right, a single line and wall to the left, coming the other way it was the same.
I got my car in 1969 so haven’t used the train to Leeds more than half a dozen times since then but the strange station wasn’t on the route.
Your old black and white photo of Mirfield station has now confirmed I wasn’t dreaming and it did exist.
Thanks again.

[@i_and_g_adventures]

Sorry to hear about your leg, but that's a interesting story. I did struggle to find any pictures of the station with the buildings. That was all I could find. Strange how we have clear memories of this that happened when we were young but can't remember why I just walked into the kitchen!

[@darleytransportandtravel6353]

PS We must remember that Mirfield station existed before Huddersfield had a railway connection. Passengers for Huddersfield alighted at Cooper Bridge for a coach to Huddersfield.

[@i_and_g_adventures]

Ah I don't know that, interesting 👍