Express trains ran regularly from Rochdale to Halifax along the line that still runs through Charlestown taking 20 minutes (now taking nearly 40 mins on a good day!) On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.

Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing up the rails as if they were wire". The engine ploughed into the embankment on the North side of the cutting.

The first people on the scene came from Callis Mill who helped people from the wreckage. People brought sheets from their houses to be used as bandages.

The opening of the chapel was in March 1909 and the photos indicate that it was a big event.

• 1866. Canon Sowden records in 1891..."Some people at Callis Bridge End were 24 hours without food. they rushed upstairs without securing provisions. At Callis Mill James and Sophia Midgely lived at a small cottage called Gas Hall (not sure where this is). Sophia got on to a round table and stayed there, while James moved about (more or less) on chairs, until about 4 in the afternoon when their son John came and rescued them, carrying her to the mill next door. From thence, she went by ladder through a hole made in the roof, and from the roof by another ladder to the top of the scutching room in the mill and down the mill to the regular door. John then carried her in his arms to the woodman inn. Her husband took the same course, only he was able to walk through the water from the mill".
  
  
• 1891 On Saturday December 12th, following a week of excessive rain, there was a heavy fall of snow. It started at about noon and lasting about 4 hours, the snow melted as it hit the ground. By 8 pm, the River Calder was on flood alert (not for the first time that year). The floods were greater than 1866 with the main damage at Midgely's Building's (perhaps the same as gas Hall above?) and Callis Bridge. the bridge was all but carried off, with the parapets clean carried away, only the bare skeleton of the arch remaining.
  
  
• 1896 On september 24th, great alarm and terror was created in Eastwood and charlestown by the sudden bursting of Staups dam. the reservoir fed the eastwood weaving shed, and the mills of Staups and Jumble Hole valley. The reservoir gave way at 3.45 pm. It destroyed walls and trees as the water sped down the hillside and acres of land was destroyed. New Barn and Dean Bottom farmhouse suffered much damage whereas Mulcture Hall only suffered minor damage. The water emptied into Staups Clough above Cow Bridge. Two rooms of the unoccupied Cow Bridge Mill were flooded to a depth of several feet and the road to Jumble Hole was washed away. The water finally reached the valley bottom and flooded the houses at Sandbed.