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wow those pesky victorians were so advanced in their thinking, some countries still dont have power stations, yet we had one in the 1800s

Unfortunately there seems to be quite a bit of stumbling over the name of the resort. It's BLACKPOOL, not BRADFORD. 😀

Not a chance of it ever happening - its a railway remember . If it was a ring road or a bypass, it would have been built 40 - 50 years ago. This country is so Anti rail.

The British governments are fond of closing railway stations that are in the centre of towns/cities. They pinch the railway land for offices / car parks / supermarkets / roads, etc etc. Its criminal, but they always get away with it.

They could do a train tunnel from somewhere off the main line around Layton right through and a station (low level) where Central was and come out on the old track bed towards South Station

I still cant understand why this station was closed. Im sure today it would be more convenient than north station. They should relocate the south station closer to the centre i think

This was a good rollercoaster. I remember visiting in about '97.

Good information about the Queensbury lines thank you.

Before the Beeching pruning of the railway, there was a regular service between Bradford Forster Square and Morcambe, via Settle Junction, Wennington Junction and Lancaster Green Ayre. Morcambe was known locally as Bradford on Sea. Seems Beeching had a thing about closing down Midland Railway main lines. Pruning the lines linking to and from the Settle & Carlisle was a deliberate ploy to shut that line. The Somerset & Dorset was another Midland line that was axed. The Waverley Route, the Stainmore Route were other cross country routes which were axed. Short sighted transport policy, but Marples had road transport interests.

Great video ! I have seen many photos of Great Northern (LNER) locos on the line between Keighley and Halifax, but none of any Midland types. I wonder if Midland locos worked any regular freight or passenger trains over to Queensbury and Halifax ?

Quite good,I remember stopping at ovinden station and the others going into Halifax in 1953 as a boy.

I lived opposite the area of the old Greenfield stadium in the mid 80’s-90’s. Sadly the whole area had already been redeveloped for warehouses by the time I lived there. I was aware there had been a stadium there in the past, and Thankyou for providing more info. Great video! Keep up the great work 👍

The latest plan is to link FS with a tunnel/viaduct to a new station at the Dryden Street Market

A similar project has now been completed to join the East London and disused Broad Street lines at Shoreditch. Passenger numbers have exceeded all expectations.

wow new sub from me this was really interesting

Thanks for that video. More of Bradford's history that i didn't know. Keep on with your great work.

The gradient from St Dunstons to Horton Park was really steep and had to be banked or double headed for heavy trains.

Tell us about the GN station at Shipley - its a scrapyard now - see the remains of it every time I travel the Aire Valley line - I think it climbed steeply uphill towards Bradford but know nothing about it or its services - one for another video perhaps ?

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Another great video, thanks . I'm looking forward to the next.

As a boy I walked past these and was fascinated by the heavy industrial nature of valley road, with the billowing power station & adjacent large railway yard, plus of course the local woollen & worsted mills. It was quite a sight !

Bradford will never be Bradford without Busby’s,As a child I remember visiting the store in awe at its magnificence.what a loss!

Great explanation of the lines I certainly have learned something about the workings and closures is quite nostalgic.Thank you.

With Southeastern aiming to introduce new trains for step free access, some of the redundant Electrostars can be cascaded to West Yorkshire to replace the obsolete diesels, with the accelerated rollout of electrification south of Bradford.

The Shipley Depot will become even more important as the Wharfedale and Airedale heavy rail metro is expanded to the whole of West Yorkshire with the proposed through line between Shipley, Halifax and Huddersfield via Bradford.

My memory of the Father Christmas parade was of it starting at Lister Park, thr Frizinghall entrance. But it was agreed, Busby's Father Christmas was the real one, the Father Christmas at Brown Muffs was an imitation.

Many disused tunnels in the UK have been converted into cycleways. The local council in Bradford needs to pull its finger out and help fund Sustran to reopen it as a social amenity.

There has been poor planning, compared to Queensbury many of the new council houses built in the Bradford suburbs have no trains or trams, e.g., Wibsey

Thanks for the information. It was a smart station. It's a pity it was not retained to support fresh housing and commercial development, like the other alpine routes in Switzerland

Great work as always. It would be useful to show a route map at the beginning. My knowledge of West Yorkshire geography isn’t what it was. I moved down South in 1994.

My great grandfather worked for the North Eastern, as a guard between Ilkley and Leeds via Otley, and also to Harrogate. I have somewhere a picture of a train at Ilkley with the train crew, my ancestor included. My mother grew up in Ilkley, and if when we were visiting we needed to go to Leeds, we would always have to take the longer and less frequent route via Otley, out of respect for my great grandfather. My last memory of the line was sitting at the front of a DMU, savouring every inch of the journey to Leeds. You don't mention that the line to Skipton via Ilkley was often used as a relief route; the Thames Clyde Express would often be sent this way en route from Leeds to Carlisle.

As with all tunnel structures this was built for useful purpose, and so it should continue to do so even now. But the question of its overall upkeep has to be agreed upon. Thereafter will be of benefit to all who transit it.

We could easily save this tunnel if we channelled £££ more appropriately. In the 21st century very little is now beyond the capabilities of man and machine. If work started in earnest to repair Queensbury Tunnel and build a cycle/walkway through it I bet it could all be done within a year.

To simply bury the tunnel would be a tragedy and the loss of a great monument and asset. The 'Two Tunnels Trail' near Bath has been a great success when two long single-bore tunnels were unearthed and turned into a brilliant walking & cycling route. A similar restoration at Queensbury would require more much greater engineering and expense but such investment would surely be worth it.

Its a shame but the proposed greenway will never happen due to the costs involved and how councils are strapped for cash. The only way it may stand a chance is via a gofundme

Another great vid thanks. Local history needs to be recorded, i look forward to your next.

Navvies .. Unless you actually mean the navy

I think the best chance of it being done would have been when forster square was re developed. Today it would take a huge tunnel to be built and i bet forster square would close also as the straight section of the track where the station is would be the incline section into the tunnel

HI i like your content! i am from oldham originally and now in halifax! both the oldham - greenfield and halifax - queensbury routes should have never been closed and kept soley as express by pass routes to connect the major towns and just closed the small stations as it would assist the congested network which we have now.

This so evocotive for me as my mother would take us from Leeds to Ilkley swimming baths in the summer along this line, I loved the sight and sounds of that DMU - was it class 108?

I'm in that crowd who watched the chimney demolition, I was about 7!

Thanks for making that film, very interesting. It must have been a confusing station to use, with a train for your destination leaving from two possible platforms a long walk apart!

always good work,keep `em coming,thanks

You forgot... Pentagon and Annabellas.. I met my missus at Mecca in 1977 and saw numerous bands there in the 1980s. Some of the pubs i remember are Boy and Barrel, Duchess of Kent, Golden Cockerel, Empress, tavern in the town, The metropole, Market tavern, Cellar bar (met my first girlfriend in there), Sun Inn, Royal Standard (some great punk nights there until it burnt down) Belle Vue (strippers on a dinnertime before the city game) Norfolk Gardens, Harp of Erin, New Beehive, Lord Clyde, Black Swan, The Crown, Yates`s, Pack Horse, The Castle, The Office, Spotted House, The Turf, Painted wagon, jacobs well, the star, The Commercial, Gas works,

Cavernas closed and the site remained a club that changed hands a few times and had other names including Jumping Jacks. The Love Apple and Mode were in the same building but didn't occupy any of the space that Cavernas had. Closed list. Scruffs and Snobs Dukes and Silks Blue Lace Lingards Palm Cove Cavernas Jumping Jacks Love Apple Walkabout Livingstones Revolution Gas Works Rios Frog and Toad Wheatsheaf Windsor Baths (where many of your photos are from) Flares College bar in Old Building W's Underworld Champagnes Tumblers Pickwicks 42nd Street Flagship Che/Bamboozle Cloud 9 Others whose names escape me right now.

Queensbury tunnel flooded after the drainage ditches at the other (Holmefield) end were not maintained. A few year ago it was partly filled in by tipping filling material down a vent shaft. There was a proposal to turn it into a cycle way but that effort came to nothing. I think on U tube there is video of someone exploring the tunnel, before it was filled.

Quite an interesting compilation for those who have been on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, and wondered where the line originally went! The only thing I would suggest is that you draw a map with a felt pen to illustrate where you are talking about. Thanks for uploading.

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