a panoramic landscape over the town and valley of Calderdale, the station opening in 1844 as the terminus of a branch line off the main line from Manchester to Normanton, from Tait’s ‘Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, Drawn from Nature and on Stone by A.F. Tait’, (1819-1905), the Liverpool-born artist who trained with the print publishers, Agnew and Zanetti, in Manchester, applying his burgeoning interest in landscape and nature to depicting this series of beautiful scenes in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the later 1840s, before emigrating to America, in 1850, where he became very well known as a wildlife painter, was widely published by Currier & Ives, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York,
original hand-coloured lithograph, printed by Day & Son, 255 x 345 mm. (10 x 13 5/8 in), a marginal dampstain, [Abbey Life 411],