Date: 14/03/2014

THE SUN came out in West Yorkshire to help supporters of Community Railways celebrate the 21st year since the idea was first promoted in Britain. There are now well over 40 Community Rail partnerships, and passenger usage on the lines they support and promote has been rising fast. The landmark was celebrated in another way, when the founder of Community Railways in Britain Paul Salveson unveiled a plaque on the new headquarters of the Association of Community Rail Partnerships in Huddersfield. The building, close to Huddersfield station, is anything but new, having built as the support for a locomotive water supply tank in the later nineteenth century.

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THE SUN came out in West Yorkshire to help supporters of Community Railways celebrate the 21st year since the idea was first promoted in Britain. The...

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The Association of Community Rail Partnerships has just taken up residence in the ex-LNWR water tower at the north end of Huddersfield station. Back in 1983 it was still in railway use (although not for supplying boiler water of course) and surrounded by the sort of clutter which gave the network so much of its atmosphere.
Location: Huddersfield
Company: Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway
/11/1983 Bill Jamieson

The former water tower at the east end of Huddersfield station in March 2013, now the offices of ACoRP. [See image 41919] for an earlier view before conversion and cleaning of stonework.
Location: Huddersfield
Company: Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway
12/03/2013 John McIntyre

The statue of Harold Wilson seems to look on in approval at a ceremony taking place on 13 March at the Huddersfield Water Tower, home of the Association of Community Rail Partnerships. Network Rail's Jerry Swift is in the process of unveiling the National Railway Heritage Award at the invitation of Awards Chairman, former ScotRail director John Ellis. [See news item]
Location: Huddersfield
Company: Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway
13/03/2014 John Yellowlees