Cooper Bridge was a railway station built by the Manchester and Leeds Railway to serve the town of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.

History

Opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1840 to serve Huddersfield, away, which at that time did not have a station of its own.

Cooper Bridge railway station

It is sometimes wrongly claimed that the station was built for and by, the owner of Kirklees Hall the Armytage family, although they were in fact investors in the rival Huddersfield & Manchester Railway.

Cooper Bridge railway station

References

External links

Cooper Bridge station on navigable 1947 O. S. map

Disused railway stations in Kirklees

Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations

Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840

Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1950

Cooper Bridge railway station