Very interesting videos. Mirfield was a major hub for the Railways - my grandfather came over from Ormskirk where he was a steam loco driver and the company sent him to Mirfield as it was so big. My mum was 7 when they came in 1929 - just think - without the railways I wouldn't be here!!
Highways are good at filling in any void - the tunnel on the Queensbury Line was another waste filling opportunity they could see. Lets hope both these two great features can be re-used for leisure and not simply as dumps. Great work Darren, very interesting vids you make.
Really enjoying the "Leeds New Line" series, got to say this is likely to become my favourite series of yours so far. Look forward to the next element of this series. Keep up the good work Darren 👍
I suppose, if you fill it in, you don't have to maintain the bridges/tunnels, which saves money. You stop flytippers and, if they dump toxic waste first then build houses, you eventually get kids at school with 6 fingers and webbed feet! Great Vid, looking forward to next week.
Very interesting video.Would be massive loss to fill in the Heckmondwike cutting.I think it is a huge benefit to the local communities to tidy up what remains of these old railways lines for walking,cycling or running routes.
I’m loving your videos Darren, especially how you mix old images in which really brings things to life. I did my training as a surveyor with British Rail Property Board in Bristol in 1988 and had many closed stations and closed branch lines to manage. Railway history has always fascinated me, so a big thank you for providing such amazing content.
When i was a kid i remember trains running on both-tracks? we called them top line and bottom line. Along with the Dewsbury moor line we had three in total ? Great for young train spotting.
Only a stones throw from where I live in Mirfield. I always find it fascinating looking at these old railway relics. Your photo transposition is so clever. Thank you for this series. I will be waiting for the next ones.
Hi part two was fantastic I'm now getting a look at Heckmondwike bridges that I've been over and I know where you started from but didn't know about the zoo but what a lot of lines that crossed each other i can see how you can get confused well looking forward to part three keep the good work coming see you soon Kevin
Hi, Great Video, I hope to god they don't fill that in!! That would be unspeakable!!! Bloody new houses!!!! I've been on that stretch my self, not as far as you got..👌 but I was amazed. There is a Crazy amount of train lines & artefacts around that area. Looking forward to the next one, wondering witch town is next !(Abutments)🤣🤣, Cheers Grant.
Surely the pathway through the town under the railway bridges should be preserved? What a great project to join this as a greenaway to the Low Moor walk.
Thank you Darren, I'm really enjoying this latest adventure. I live in Morley at the other end of the Leeds New Line, so looking forward to seeing the rest. :)
Brilliant loved it, the cutting was well full of trees when I lived in Heckmondwike where you approached the Heckmondwike Spen station. So great to see it as you walked through it 👍🏻 😎
Your head must be like an old railway encyclopaedia. Fascinating to listen to your knowledge. Well done. But as I said before it is also sad to see them all gone now and shocking at the rubbish dumped. And no we don’t want toxic waste dumped either. Thank you Darren. Great vlog as always
I really enjoyed part 1 and you delivered in part 2. Many thanks from Australia. Hope you plan on doing more railway walks, I really enjoy them, you obviously do your research well. Excellent work
Great stuff, just love all that blue brick. Sustrans are usually in the business of developing cycle routes so I am surprised that if they own the tunnel that they'd not resist filling in of the cutting. Looking forward to the next installment.
Thats a lot of lines in one place ! Really well made video mate. Keep up the great work. They really are a pleasure to watch. You really have a passion for this.
I've wanted to see down that stretch towards the Ringway for ages. I tried running down there a few years back but had to turn round as the path was just too muddy to continue.
Brilliant video, some very interesting finds on this disused lines and sounds like a Disused Railway's dream with loads of Disused Railways meeting together.
Another fascinating video! Such a shame that corporate greed comes above everything nowadays. As you say, it would make a fantastic cycle route, rather than a toxic landfill housing estate.
Fascinating video again . You did well to sort out all those lines. Great to see all those bridges and the work and attention to detail that went into building them years ago . As you mentioned would make a great cycle path and walkway. It reminds me of the Castleford greenway section that's brilliant now but before then it was plagued with litter and fly tipping . Hopefully the council and other interested parties will see beyond filling it in and building houses it should be preserved as far as possible for future generations to enjoy and look back on. Look forward to the next installment 😁🚂🚲
Sadly that area is under Kirklees Council who are intent on building as much housing as possible irrespective of greenbelt or local history or the views of local residents.
Cheers Darren for making my wife's ( Jeanette) night. She's just got in from your gig in Castleford with the wireless headphones she won in the raffle. She's absolutely buzzing ,Cheers Daz, jobs a gud un my friend🤗🤗🤗
It fascinates me that when this line was put in, it represented “the future” and was as modern as could be, with some considering it an eyesore. Now, what was once advanced infrastructure is now ruins! Also, what was once an eyesore to some is now beautiful in ruin as we admire that unique blue brick.
Just across the road below the bridge abutments is an unmarked lane actually called Dark Lane where there was a very extensive pit where the workers were battling a million gallons of water a day while digging 24 inch seams. Pit shut 1909 due to cost of pumping water.
Another good video there bud its interesting to know that the line from the Calder valley line near Ravensthorpe ran up to Heckmonwike oil terminal right up to the 1980s so the pile of ballast you found was from around the time they lifted line in the 80s.
It might just be possible to reinstate the line from Low Moor to (near) Ravensthorpe as a direct Bradford-Wakefield rail link avoiding Leeds, but it's unlikely to happen. There's no possibility of a revival of the Leeds New line (that was part of an expansion scheme which eventually gave extra tracks between Leeds, Huddersfield and under the Pennines into the Manchester area (all closed and demolished from the early '60s).
park farm coliery was nearer northorpe not where you said it was between Jill lane and the beginning of ponderosa on the left.There was baths for miners which were just in the wooded area where the terrace houses are on jill lane.On Ord survey map down as Northfield baths base and some of the sides still there.Just past Jill lane gong to ponderosa was a cutting and then a bridge where the railway went under, near Tom Royds farm all gone now cutting filled in
I've just checked again on the 1892 maps and it was where i said it was. After ponderosa and just before the crossover viaduct. It was a large site that ran alongside the L&Y track for a few hundred yards. There was a secondary shaft for the colliery where you said.
I have lived in the Heckmondwike area all my life, but you have shown me placesI have never seen before. I am going to have to have a good explore. Do you go up to Howley ruins at the top end of Batley. I remember an old railway tunnel that is brick up from my childhood. It would be nice to see what you have to say about this. X
The bridge at 6.51 is still there but is now burried as the old L and Y line cutting that it crossed was filled in, the top of the bridge is still visible and can be driven over.
Those "culverts" you mentioned are more likely to be bricked up recesses built into the tunnel wall to shelter a workman when a train passes by so he is safe. There is enough room for one workman as you see these recesses inside tunnels and brick built cuttings. They're all over the place where train tracks are laid down below street level
We were regular users of that station before it closed, we visited my aunt who lived almost next to it, we'd catch the train at Liversedge, but for the life in me I can't remember ever catching a train back.
I used to walk the dog along the old line beds between northorpe lower and heckmondwike. Where the upper line crossed the lower line, the angle was so acute that the bridge abutments weren’t directly opposite each other and in fact no part of each abutment overlapped the other one by even one brick. If you understand what I’m trying to say? 😊
How about the Lancashire Yorkshire Railway? I live in Cleckheaton and, just below Tesco (on the site of the former Cleckheaton station), there is a LYR stone marker still standing, forlorn and neglected. I also know of two other inscribed stones (LYR) - one of which only the seriously curious will come across.
Worst thing they ever did was destroying these railway lines. Would be so useful nowadays! Be great to be able to nip on the train to Cleckheaton from Mirfield. Now we can only go to Hudds, Leeds or Wakefield. Absolute joke.
@@AdventureMe ...and on to Huddersfield and Manchester and Stockport going the other way : two extra tracks built to increase line capacity in the 1890s and now virtually all cleared away and demolished. One structure that survives is the second viaduct on Stockport, built over about 18 months ca. 1889. They had started running down these by-then-unwanted tracks by the early '60s.
The blue bricks Darren are 'Engineering bricks' They have a very high strength, and low absorption properties (4%). I would like to think they do NOT fill this in. Nor fill the cutting, as why do we need more houses? Also we do NOT need our cuttings filled with fly tipping. Surely some community service workers should be clearing that of a Sunday, but really we shouldn't be fly tipping!
Walked part of the greenaway today, its madness to think they want to fill the disused part in with toxic waste and build on it when it could be brought back into use like the existing greenaway. The fly tipping just makes my blood boil when you come across it when out walking!!
Why someone would buy a house thats potentially on top of toxic rubbish is beyond me. I guess people dont check where old dumps are or were before they buy.
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Your ability to place pictures over the video is amazing. thanks.
Fascinating. We are working hard to preserve the line and open it for public cycling and walking, wish us luck!
Very interesting videos. Mirfield was a major hub for the Railways - my grandfather came over from Ormskirk where he was a steam loco driver and the company sent him to Mirfield as it was so big. My mum was 7 when they came in 1929 - just think - without the railways I wouldn't be here!!
Highways are good at filling in any void - the tunnel on the Queensbury Line was another waste filling opportunity they could see. Lets hope both these two great features can be re-used for leisure and not simply as dumps. Great work Darren, very interesting vids you make.
Really enjoying the "Leeds New Line" series, got to say this is likely to become my favourite series of yours so far. Look forward to the next element of this series. Keep up the good work Darren 👍
No one matches old photos with new scenes like you. You absolutely on point.
it's amazing how it's all gone and nature taking back over. All that hard work what was put in to build the railways back in the 1800s.
I suppose, if you fill it in, you don't have to maintain the bridges/tunnels, which saves money. You stop flytippers and, if they dump toxic waste first then build houses, you eventually get kids at school with 6 fingers and webbed feet! Great Vid, looking forward to next week.
It'd be like rhe Simpsons with fish in local rivers with 3 eyes.
Very interesting video.Would be massive loss to fill in the Heckmondwike cutting.I think it is a huge benefit to the local communities to tidy up what remains of these old railways lines for walking,cycling or running routes.
I’m loving your videos Darren, especially how you mix old images in which really brings things to life. I did my training as a surveyor with British Rail Property Board in Bristol in 1988 and had many closed stations and closed branch lines to manage. Railway history has always fascinated me, so a big thank you for providing such amazing content.
Thanks for watching.
When i was a kid i remember trains running on both-tracks? we called them top line and bottom line. Along with the Dewsbury moor line we had three in total ? Great for young train spotting.
Only a stones throw from where I live in Mirfield. I always find it fascinating looking at these old railway relics. Your photo transposition is so clever.
Thank you for this series. I will be waiting for the next ones.
Did you see my previous one Harry, I covered Mirfield.
@@AdventureMe yes I saw the first one around Batteyford etc.
Hi part two was fantastic I'm now getting a look at Heckmondwike bridges that I've been over and I know where you started from but didn't know about the zoo but what a lot of lines that crossed each other i can see how you can get confused well looking forward to part three keep the good work coming see you soon Kevin
Hi, Great Video, I hope to god they don't fill that in!! That would be unspeakable!!! Bloody new houses!!!! I've been on that stretch my self, not as far as you got..👌 but I was amazed. There is a Crazy amount of train lines & artefacts around that area. Looking forward to the next one, wondering witch town is next !(Abutments)🤣🤣, Cheers Grant.
There's plenty of interesting local history around us here in Yorkshire, it's just a shame that we don't always appreciate what's around us !
I found your channel through watching Martin Zero, I enjoyed the tour with the back story and photo match up. I have subbed :)
These are brilliant. Love the local history and the picture mixing is utterly fantastic, thank you 👏👏👏
Excellent . It's amazing how many tunnels and abandon railroads lines there are. Meriden, Kansas
Surely the pathway through the town under the railway bridges should be preserved? What a great project to join this as a greenaway to the Low Moor walk.
Thank you Darren, I'm really enjoying this latest adventure. I live in Morley at the other end of the Leeds New Line, so looking forward to seeing the rest. :)
Brilliant. I live in Mirfield, and I’d like to walk this route. Thank you for doing your videos.
Excellent, the confusion of lines here! I'll have to look at my Ian Allan pre,-grouping rail map!
It's a total clutter of lines in every direction. All gone now.
Brilliant loved it, the cutting was well full of trees when I lived in Heckmondwike where you approached the Heckmondwike Spen station.
So great to see it as you walked through it 👍🏻 😎
Fantastic Darren xx watching it on my TV now xx
Your head must be like an old railway encyclopaedia. Fascinating to listen to your knowledge. Well done. But as I said before it is also sad to see them all gone now and shocking at the rubbish dumped. And no we don’t want toxic waste dumped either. Thank you Darren. Great vlog as always
I'm deep into my gazetteer looking at all the lines mentioned, very interesting Darren, you do present well, thanks for the video.
Darren amazing and loved the cutting, would makea perfect cycle route.
I really enjoyed part 1 and you delivered in part 2. Many thanks from Australia. Hope you plan on doing more railway walks, I really enjoy them, you obviously do your research well. Excellent work
Great stuff, just love all that blue brick. Sustrans are usually in the business of developing cycle routes so I am surprised that if they own the tunnel that they'd not resist filling in of the cutting. Looking forward to the next installment.
Apparently they have no control over the cutting before it, the council do. Making a quick buck by the sounds of it.
@@AdventureMe Yes, houses = lots more council charge income.
Thats a lot of lines in one place !
Really well made video mate. Keep up the great work.
They really are a pleasure to watch. You really have a passion for this.
Thanks a ton!
I've wanted to see down that stretch towards the Ringway for ages. I tried running down there a few years back but had to turn round as the path was just too muddy to continue.
I was just about to send you this link!
Brilliant video, some very interesting finds on this disused lines and sounds like a Disused Railway's dream with loads of Disused Railways meeting together.
Glad you enjoyed it
Another fascinating video! Such a shame that corporate greed comes above everything nowadays. As you say, it would make a fantastic cycle route, rather than a toxic landfill housing estate.
Absolutely
Fascinating video again . You did well to sort out all those lines. Great to see all those bridges and the work and attention to detail that went into building them years ago . As you mentioned would make a great cycle path and walkway. It reminds me of the Castleford greenway section that's brilliant now but before then it was plagued with litter and fly tipping . Hopefully the council and other interested parties will see beyond filling it in and building houses it should be preserved as far as possible for future generations to enjoy and look back on. Look forward to the next installment 😁🚂🚲
Sadly that area is under Kirklees Council who are intent on building as much housing as possible irrespective of greenbelt or local history or the views of local residents.
Fantastic work Darren. Always informative.
Thanks again!
Cheers Darren for making my wife's ( Jeanette) night. She's just got in from your gig in Castleford with the wireless headphones she won in the raffle. She's absolutely buzzing ,Cheers Daz, jobs a gud un my friend🤗🤗🤗
Thanks Richard. Glad she enjoyed. She should have said hi.
She did say hi, she collared you before you started and she bagged a selfie with you 😁😁
Your videos are getting better and better - the old/new transitions are great.
Glad you like them!
Very good video again. I wouldn’t be comfortable living right next to that tunnel.
I know. Very strange.
Thanks for the video chat tour. Cheers buddy.
Love the abutments!
It fascinates me that when this line was put in, it represented “the future” and was as modern as could be, with some considering it an eyesore. Now, what was once advanced infrastructure is now ruins! Also, what was once an eyesore to some is now beautiful in ruin as we admire that unique blue brick.
Another interesting explore mate , cheers
Thanks 👍
Excellent yet again... ..
This is fascinating. I follow on Google Maps, you are heading into my neck of the woods.
Really interesting, enjoyed that a lot
Just across the road below the bridge abutments is an unmarked lane actually called Dark Lane where there was a very extensive pit where the workers were battling a million gallons of water a day while digging 24 inch seams. Pit shut 1909 due to cost of pumping water.
Good stuff, waiting patiently for the next (impatiently actually).
Working on it! Thanks mate.
Another good video there bud its interesting to know that the line from the Calder valley line near Ravensthorpe ran up to Heckmonwike oil terminal right up to the 1980s so the pile of ballast you found was from around the time they lifted line in the 80s.
It might just be possible to reinstate the line from Low Moor to (near) Ravensthorpe as a direct Bradford-Wakefield rail link avoiding Leeds, but it's unlikely to happen. There's no possibility of a revival of the Leeds New line (that was part of an expansion scheme which eventually gave extra tracks between Leeds, Huddersfield and under the Pennines into the Manchester area (all closed and demolished from the early '60s).
Another banging video Darren they definitely new how to build then 😀 100 yrs old and still look new .what you do with the photos 📷 is amazing 👏
Thanks 👍
@@AdventureMe your welcome 🙏 mate
park farm coliery was nearer northorpe not where
you said it was between Jill lane and the beginning of ponderosa on the left.There was baths for miners which were just in the wooded area where the terrace houses are on jill lane.On Ord survey map down as Northfield baths base and some of the sides still there.Just past Jill lane gong to ponderosa was a cutting and then a bridge where the railway went under, near Tom Royds farm all gone now cutting filled in
I've just checked again on the 1892 maps and it was where i said it was. After ponderosa and just before the crossover viaduct. It was a large site that ran alongside the L&Y track for a few hundred yards. There was a secondary shaft for the colliery where you said.
Very educational and well explained.
Another excellent video, we live close by in Liversedge
Thanks Andrew
I have lived in the Heckmondwike area all my life, but you have shown me placesI have never seen before. I am going to have to have a good explore. Do you go up to Howley ruins at the top end of Batley. I remember an old railway tunnel that is brick up from my childhood. It would be nice to see what you have to say about this. X
The bridge at 6.51 is still there but is now burried as the old L and Y line cutting that it crossed was filled in, the top of the bridge is still visible and can be driven over.
Those "culverts" you mentioned are more likely to be bricked up recesses built into the tunnel wall to shelter a workman when a train passes by so he is safe. There is enough room for one workman as you see these recesses inside tunnels and brick built cuttings. They're all over the place where train tracks are laid down below street level
No Darran. It already had recesses in there. Much bigger. These were at ground or track level, I think they were to do with drainage.
Another great video mate... the blue brick is known as engineering brick FYI. 😁
Great video! Do you have a photo of Northorpe Higher station, closed in 1953. I’ve been trying for years to find one.
There's a few in my video of northorpe station.
Northorpe Lower Station on the Mirfield,Cleckheaton, Low Moor and Bradford Exchange line was known as Northorpe North Rd station.
We were regular users of that station before it closed, we visited my aunt who lived almost next to it, we'd catch the train at Liversedge, but for the life in me I can't remember ever catching a train back.
I used to walk the dog along the old line beds between northorpe lower and heckmondwike. Where the upper line crossed the lower line, the angle was so acute that the bridge abutments weren’t directly opposite each other and in fact no part of each abutment overlapped the other one by even one brick. If you understand what I’m trying to say? 😊
Yeah I get you.
How about the Lancashire Yorkshire Railway? I live in Cleckheaton and, just below Tesco (on the site of the former Cleckheaton station), there is a LYR stone marker still standing, forlorn and neglected. I also know of two other inscribed stones (LYR) - one of which only the seriously curious will come across.
One day soon.
Drove up the M1 the other day, the Crigglestone tunnel seems to have a lot of vegetation cut back, are they opening it up for walking?
highly unlikely considering the other Portal is buried.
16:40...Didn’t you check local culverts for blockage? 😇
Worst thing they ever did was destroying these railway lines. Would be so useful nowadays! Be great to be able to nip on the train to Cleckheaton from Mirfield. Now we can only go to Hudds, Leeds or Wakefield. Absolute joke.
Going all the way to cleckheaton?
All the way to Leeds.
@@AdventureMe ...and on to Huddersfield and Manchester and Stockport going the other way : two extra tracks built to increase line capacity in the 1890s and now virtually all cleared away and demolished. One structure that survives is the second viaduct on Stockport, built over about 18 months ca. 1889. They had started running down these by-then-unwanted tracks by the early '60s.
The blue bricks Darren are 'Engineering bricks' They have a very high strength, and low absorption properties (4%). I would like to think they do NOT fill this in. Nor fill the cutting, as why do we need more houses? Also we do NOT need our cuttings filled with fly tipping. Surely some community service workers should be clearing that of a Sunday, but really we shouldn't be fly tipping!
Walked part of the greenaway today, its madness to think they want to fill the disused part in with toxic waste and build on it when it could be brought back into use like the existing greenaway. The fly tipping just makes my blood boil when you come across it when out walking!!
All these old abandoned lines should become greenways or new roads at least or even bus ways.
Why someone would buy a house thats potentially on top of toxic rubbish is beyond me. I guess people dont check where old dumps are or were before they buy.
only missed by 10 mins this time darren lol but have an excuse today its my 60th
Happy Birthday mate, so many birthdays this month.
I know the man how owns the cutting it's just getting filled in with spoil.