The "railway related" red brick buildings at 8.39 minutes were connected to and built by the Clayton Fireclay Brickworks . Founded by Mr Julius Whitehead in 1880 the works closed in 1970. The works buildings have long gone but the elaborate chimney, showing examples of the products made in the works can still be seen. The company produced sanitary wear, glazed bricks and chimney pots.
Great to see how this is turning out in the final videos. Thanks for the invite to tag along and help 👍 Looking forward to the good stuff still to come in the rest of the series
I’m from Queensbury and have always had an interest in the old station and what it used to be like… very interesting video, and it’s great to see some photos of the place I didn’t even know existed! If you go on Carter Lane you can get a good view overlooking the old triangle, there is a classic photo of the station taken from here, and if you look closely you can still see the red and white chimney to orientate yourself. Look forward to seeing part 2!
Not withstanding where roads/motorways were built, but the wholesale demolishing of so many railways in the UK was not only a travesty, it was a truly grave mistake.
Thank you for the impressive tour into the past. A very good reconstruction of the original station and surroundings. See you on the next. Cheers Darren! 🏴🙂👍🇺🇸
Your like a super Sherlock when it comes to railways! I'm No anorak but I do love finding out about these lost railway sites with you Another cracking video Darren.
It's amazing just how different somewhere can become and actually in a relatively short time. Literally, if you didn't know that there was a railway there then you would never know. Most of what you have shown (apart from the bridge and you would question wtf is a bridge doing here) just wouldn't give any clue as to magnitiude of what was once there. Just amazing. Love it, looking forward to the next one.
The Forest of Dean is very much like that, all the old coalmines and railway stations disappeared and went back to nature like they were never there, apart from the odd artifact.
Great video Darren, I notice absolutely every unusual stonework/brickwork etc whilst out and about with the family. Particular favourite of mine is lemonroyd lock. I think that was the first video I saw of yours as I were investigating the flood that happened on the coal mine. Also someone has been down to the old lock very recently and cut back all the bushes etc to save it from nature taking over which is fantastic. Keep up the good work mate.
Superb start. Looking forward to the rest of the series. I remember in the 1980s travelling from Keighley to Halifax by bus through the "no man's land" that was once busy with railways and wished I had been old enough to experience it by train.
Brilliant was so excited to watch this. The Red house & the chimney further down in the back ground was part of the old fire clay brick works the owner of the brick works built his house in red brick .Cant wait for part 2 & 3 . Hope you got the big tunnel in with the memorials of the men who worked building the tunnel .
I live 10 minutes away from here. Never knew it was this interesting....you look at how the land is nowadays and its hard to visualise another time and appearance ....Good work
Thanks to AdventureMe for another fine watch, hi Andy. Darren, you are the King of Photo Fades--bar none, they really help fill the gaps in the story. Nature sure takes over quick, amazing. This looks like it will be a great series to watch. Thanks again.......
watched your videos for a while now. love that you are doing one of the triangle , i remember the viaduct just after it being demolished and walking through the clayton tunnel to find it blocked off at the other end around 97
Followed your progress from the early days of the Leeds lines and I've been waiting for this as I live at the top of the hill. Another great video, you're getting pretty good at this you tube lark 😉
@@AdventureMe Haha no mate you're genuinely good at this stuff. Theres a lot of effort goes into these.videos, you deserve the growing list of subscribers
First learnt about “The Queensbury Lines” in 1993 when on the train home from work. Over the mountain to Queensbury( A Steam days publication). I was into disused tunnels and of course i was hooked from then on. First visited Queensbury tunnel and station site in 2000. Saw the flooded end and this end and nearly all the other tunnels & viaducts. What a lovely line it was. Some good books on it thru Willowherb publishing with amazing pictures if the lines in decline. Hope Queensbury tunnel gets re opened
It never ceases to amaze (and sadden) me to realise just how much time and effort they put into making sure that once these lines closed, they stayed closed for good. I bet you're right and most of the brick and stone (if not the iron and steel) is still on site somewhere, buried under hundreds of tons of landfill. What a waste. And worst of all, the Queensbury Tunnel saga proves they've learned absolutely nothing.
Halfway up Station Road (not Lane) can clearly be seen the remains of the buttresses for a bridge that would have carried a narrow-gauge line up the steep hillside towards the Scarlet Heights area of Queensbury. This was to carry the coal that had been mined by the Foster family from their small pits down in the triangle area up to the famous Black Dyke Mill above.
If anyone is interested, Bradford council in their wisdom have decided to abandon the tunnel to its fate, owned by the Highways agency, they wish to fill it with landfill and not allow it to be used as a cycle route between Calderdale and Airedale. If you have a mind to get on the Bradford planning portal and make your objections to the planning. Why should we lose such a piece of engineering history 1870-1955? It is 1.5 miles long with a slight curve. Goes right under the village of Queensbury, between Halifax and Bradford. 10 men lost their lives, and there was coal mining either side of it. But it can be brought back. The money to save it can be recouped in tourism & tolls. The same amount of money to close it is just like throwing endless ammounts of fifty pound notes in the sea! See Graham Bickerdyke when he took Paul & Rebecca Whitewick over the tunnel, on you Tube. HOABL
Yet another fascinating visit; many thanks for all your efforts. Why were the cuttings filled? I can understand possible safety reasons for in-filling the cutting under the footbridge but what about those that are now just continuations of fields, with no remaining nearby structures? Could this action have been part of some form of agreement with the owners of adjacent land?
Nice video. I wandered around there a few years back - it was wet and very cold. I managed the slope down to the Clayton tunnel portal - just wear thick gloves and lots of padding... Solid steel door with combination lock at boggy bottom - oh and danger warning sign thrown down the slope. The bridge is a bit weird, I can only think that the pipe going over it prevented easy removal for scrap. I read somewhere that the Clayton cutting was infilled without permission 🤷♂️
Wow Didn’t want it to end. Unbelievable it was there, lived in Queensbury never knew it was there, wish we had learnt about this in school so near! Can’t wait for the next one Thank you
Willow hall farm just up from the station was my grandparents house for years. I lived farm above and explored the station many a time as a child.. over 40 yrs ago
That's fascinating! It's a bit like ambergate, but a pre-beeching closure! For something that ran between such important towns! I'll have to look up the history!
Hello, elder brother Andy! Didn't know you were getting enthused about abandoned railways... AdventureMe - His younger sister (that's me!) has been into railways (living and abandoned) for over 20 years. I'm based in southern Lincs and also available for abandoned railway vids with said Lincolnshire flavour, if you fancy travelling further afield...
Lovely seeing our local history brought to life, hoping that it’s not lost completely to ‘progress’ as it’s very much part of Clayton & Queensbury’s story
A fascinating look at a bygone time. A little bit sad to think of all the activity that once went on there has been largely forgotten. This series is definitely being added to the "to visit" list. The overlays are brilliant, as always. Thanks for another great series.
Hi Darren, great episode. That first Station Rd/lane is badly in need of pot hole repairs🤔 unless its unadopted, also goes to show on the b/w image of that footbridge and booking hall? that the peas hooter/window smashes had already been there. Vandalism strikes again in the 1950's 😈 Hope the Mersey Ferry gig went well and Gary B got the upper hand on the audience. Cheers DougT in Mancs
The tunnel entrance through to Clayton must have been filled in at some time since the 90s. As kids we would walk into the tunnel, you could go around 200 feet, however, the track bed was pretty much flat.
Fascinating and so, so interesting as always! A suggestion for an explore - Culcheth linear Park which used to be the Lowton to Manchester line of the local railway.
Hi Darren! Been offline a while so great to see you are covering a line that is most dear to me, albeit the thing was long gone before I was even born! 😂 I was lucky enough to live in Oakworth as an infant so the ‘mysterious’ line that ran off the KWVR and then disappeared was of great interest. My dad worked in Bradford but often took the back way which involved taking roads from which you could still see the abandoned bridges etc of this line for part of the way. 🤓 Solid detective work by you and Andy, and I’d say you are probably spot on about the platform 🤔 So hard to believe there was a load of infrastructure there. Funnily enough I was thinking of Shipley, though when I was a lad there was actually only one set of platforms, so if you were going to Leeds the train would stop and have to be reversed before continuing! 🤣😂😅 It reminds me of somewhere like Bulwell, where there was once a complex of primarily coal carrying railways all interchanging, yet now there is nothing much to mention left (albeit the local passenger line still exists just ‘up the road’) to to indicate the plethora of rails that once de ends upon it! 🤷🏻♂️ Cheers mate,going to dive into the next episode now! 😉👍🍀🍻
Woow, i really enjoy the "Now & Then" line up images, when you set them both in relative to the other image. It´s not possible to imagine what those sites looked like for 70-100 years ago as a viewer without the photos. Nice 👍👍👍👍
Thanks again for all your hard work Darren. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series as the Queensbury lines are one of my favourite lost railways.
What an interesting vlog. The photo overlay fades bring it all back to life. Wonderful. Thank you and I look forward to seeing the other vlogs in this series.
This is insane. I always find it weird they fill things in to hide it's existence. Surly it costs more to fill in and hide something like that, than keep it in service in an alternative way.
Been waiting for this for ages. Was even going to suggest it as something interesting to cover, only 30secs in but hope whole series is going to be great and some mention of attempts to reopen the full line and tunnels as a walking/cycling route
Very interesting vid Darren . Bewildering the way the evidence of the line has just be obliterated . Seems very strange as it appears to be just unused land . Not sure why they would have gone to the trouble of filling in . Great to see you back on the disused railways hunt and the great picture fades . Looking forward to the next installment .
Sometime in the 80's I went here and the track bed ash had been dug out Someone did that on the line that closed near me as well, I think it must of been sold for something. There was part of a platform with the dressed stone removed and the remains of a signal post which had been cut off at ground level now exposed to its base.
Oi! don't stop now, I was just settled down nicely there!!!! Am I being a bit dense in asking why all that lot was there when it appears to be in the middle of nowhere?? I'll just sit here twiddling my thumbs andcwait for Pt. 2👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Such a shame all that wonderful infrastructure and architecture was just erased from history. I’m just hoping that the campaign to save Queensbury Tunnel is successful (though I’m not holding my breath).
Do love these historical video vlogs. I also love exploring old railways. I was a railway signalman from 1990 to 2011 and worked several signal boxes that have now vanished. This is well researched and produced Darren so well done. Slowly getting through them all lol😉
Can still see something at all three ends of the lines. At Halifax the platform still exists; it's some sort of children's place now. At Bradford you can still just about make out, or at least could a couple of years ago when I last looked, where the line went. Coming out of Exchange station, or today's Interchange, it took the line towards Leeds but then immediately diverged Westwards from that line at St. Dunstans and passed under the present route to Low Moor etc and head towards Queensbury. At Keighley a short section of the line still exists as far as the site of the junction for the Oxenhope branch which is still open as the K&WVR. If you look Eastwards from a train before reaching Ingrow West station it is possible to see the remains of the abuttments of a bridge which carried the main line to Ingrow East.
Great video. I have just walked down past the station into Thornton over the viaduct. Nice walk but coming back uphill on Station Road back into Queensbury was a struggle. Like you say - that had probably something to do with the stations demise although I can imagine a fleet of horse and carts operating on that road. Looking forward to part 2.
Around five years ago I was a courier in this area on a Sunday. I used to spend my lunchtimes exploring this fascinating site, and have many books about Queensbury. The combination of the unusual triangular shape of the site, together with the infilling makes it very difficult to orientate yourself on site. A fascinating part one, I look forward to future episodes.
Thanks again for starting another series of railway history. So appreciate the period photos to give an explanation/perspective of what was there. Can you explain why the area was filled in as opposed to simply removing the track & infrastructure? Being a rural area & it hasn't been developed I can't see why it was filled in. Also where did the infill come from: it would have taken thousands of tons of material to do it for no reason?
Darren your vlogs just get better and better your attention to detail coupled with your photo overlays and history make for great viewing hats off to you mate for making these great videos.
Great start to what looks like is going to be a fantastic series. I'm just sorry I couldn't have joined you both on this new adventure but I was away at the time. looking forward to the next one
Great vid. Saw some photos that someone who managed to get into Clayton tunnel had taken. Most of the inside is still in really good condition, there was an abandoned cannabis grow farm deep in there too.
Just started to watch (literally) and same as others have said "wouldn't know there was a station at Queensbury looking on google maps " usually there are SOME clues ..there are a few there (Queensbury tunnel ..good luck to you when you do that to Halifax lol! AND you can just make out where the top end of the junction is/was at the top end going to Keithly and a small bit going towards Bradford! ) but I never knew Queensbury was a junction between Halifax. Keithly and Bradford! looking forward to seeing your next 2 vids on the other routes from Queensbury to Halifax and Bradford!
@@AdventureMe IF you ever come down to do the Bristol temple meads to Bath green park line where I live (it's the 1st Sustrans cycle route that was done BUT NOT ALL THE WAY TO BATH!) i know a lot about it it had some Massive goods yards and a station before you got to Temple meads station (even then it carried on to the docks railway via a tunnel from temple meads etc) Sustrans have done a really good job along the line/cycleway to preserve stations and tunnels along the way ( staple hill platforms etc and also not really on the cycle route but on a spur that once linked between there and Montpelier station ( station STILL IN USE ) there were some impressive Viaducts the biggest was sadly demolished to build the m32 BUT the Royate Hill viaduct is still there to explore as an offshoot!) other stations still visible along the route is Mangotsfield station/junction (similar to Queensbury but with a station squarely on the triangle) with some of the station walls still surviving etc also Mangotsfield is of note as it was where Arnold Ridley (aka Private Godfrey from dads army) got the inspiration to write the play the ghost train after being stranded there on the night ...it was later made into a film in 1941 with Arthur Askey!) also, some of the line is now a heritage line but you can actually walk along next to it ...anyhow lol IF you decide at some point to visit Bristol and follow that line I would be very happy to tag along can read more about the line here ..www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/bristol-and-bath-railway-path/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1ZeUBhDyARIsAOzAqQKXHAQSBIV5wm1BOdt9avGixglxKyt5lRN_wE7wKbp6Mjipt-vWcrUaAnMWEALw_wcB
@@AdventureMe Cracking video as usual. Sent the link to mi lad as well. Love those photo fades, really helps my imagination how it was. Looking forward to part 2
When I visited in the late 1980s, the station hadn’t been filled in, the viaduct was still there. The concrete station name sign on the Bfd-Kly platform was still there but broken over. It said Queensbury change for Halifax. Under the Hfx-Kly curve there was a small bridge (possibly passenger underpass), by the late 1980s it had been partially filled with broken gravestones. Not sure where they had come from or when.
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The "railway related" red brick buildings at 8.39 minutes were connected to and built by the Clayton Fireclay Brickworks
. Founded by Mr Julius Whitehead in 1880 the works closed in 1970. The works buildings have long gone but the elaborate chimney, showing examples of the products made in the works can still be seen. The company produced sanitary wear, glazed bricks and chimney pots.
Thanks mate
Great to see how this is turning out in the final videos. Thanks for the invite to tag along and help 👍 Looking forward to the good stuff still to come in the rest of the series
Thanks Andy. And thanks for the company. See you on the next ones.
Once again Darren you've bought history back to life.... Top job once again bud
Thanks luke
This is the beginning of a fascinating series, I didn’t want this episode to end.
Thanks Rachel
Me too!
I’m from Queensbury and have always had an interest in the old station and what it used to be like… very interesting video, and it’s great to see some photos of the place I didn’t even know existed!
If you go on Carter Lane you can get a good view overlooking the old triangle, there is a classic photo of the station taken from here, and if you look closely you can still see the red and white chimney to orientate yourself.
Look forward to seeing part 2!
Thanks Simon
Not withstanding where roads/motorways were built, but the wholesale demolishing of so many railways in the UK was not only a travesty, it was a truly grave mistake.
Thank you for the impressive tour into the past. A very good reconstruction of the original station and surroundings. See you on the next. Cheers Darren! 🏴🙂👍🇺🇸
Thanks Martin
Your like a super Sherlock when it comes to railways! I'm No anorak but I do love finding out about these lost railway sites with you Another cracking video Darren.
Haha thanks.
It's amazing just how different somewhere can become and actually in a relatively short time. Literally, if you didn't know that there was a railway there then you would never know. Most of what you have shown (apart from the bridge and you would question wtf is a bridge doing here) just wouldn't give any clue as to magnitiude of what was once there. Just amazing. Love it, looking forward to the next one.
Yeah that's what I love about these explores.
The Forest of Dean is very much like that, all the old coalmines and railway stations disappeared and went back to nature like they were never there, apart from the odd artifact.
@@AdventureMe You sir, have one of the best channels on the interwebs!
Great video Darren, I notice absolutely every unusual stonework/brickwork etc whilst out and about with the family. Particular favourite of mine is lemonroyd lock. I think that was the first video I saw of yours as I were investigating the flood that happened on the coal mine. Also someone has been down to the old lock very recently and cut back all the bushes etc to save it from nature taking over which is fantastic. Keep up the good work mate.
Thanks Peter. Glad to hear they are keeping up with it.
This is going to be an amazing series! You would just think it has always looked liked what it does now! Amazing!
I know. Totally different
Superb start. Looking forward to the rest of the series. I remember in the 1980s travelling from Keighley to Halifax by bus through the "no man's land" that was once busy with railways and wished I had been old enough to experience it by train.
Thanks William
Brilliant, those pictures really help get some idea what was there! And what was there was unbelievable! Excellent work D!! 👏
Thanks grant
Brilliant was so excited to watch this. The Red house & the chimney further down in the back ground was part of the old fire clay brick works
the owner of the brick works built his house in red brick .Cant wait for part 2 & 3 . Hope you got the big tunnel in with the memorials of the men who worked building the tunnel .
Yeah that's part 2
I live 10 minutes away from here. Never knew it was this interesting....you look at how the land is nowadays and its hard to visualise another time and appearance ....Good work
Thanks mate
Looks quite spooky knowing once there were busy railway lines there, now it's dead and quiet lol
It sure does
Great find and wonderful photo overlays. Looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks mate
Thanks to AdventureMe for another fine watch, hi Andy. Darren, you are the King of Photo Fades--bar none, they really help fill the gaps in the story. Nature sure takes over quick, amazing. This looks like it will be a great series to watch. Thanks again.......
Thanks Mike. More stuff to come on this.
Hi Mike, pleased to hear you're enjoying it, was great fun to help out on these videos
@@kingboy76 Someday I'll also be there..... "I hope."
watched your videos for a while now. love that you are doing one of the triangle , i remember the viaduct just after it being demolished and walking through the clayton tunnel to find it blocked off at the other end around 97
Shame it got demolished.
Really enjoyed this video. Can't wait for part 2.... Excellent as always 👌 👏
Thanks Craig
Followed your progress from the early days of the Leeds lines and I've been waiting for this as I live at the top of the hill.
Another great video, you're getting pretty good at this you tube lark 😉
Thanks mate. I hope so by now.
@@AdventureMe Haha no mate you're genuinely good at this stuff. Theres a lot of effort goes into these.videos, you deserve the growing list of subscribers
First learnt about “The Queensbury Lines” in 1993 when on the train home from work. Over the mountain to Queensbury( A Steam days publication). I was into disused tunnels and of course i was hooked from then on. First visited Queensbury tunnel and station site in 2000. Saw the flooded end and this end and nearly all the other tunnels & viaducts. What a lovely line it was. Some good books on it thru Willowherb publishing with amazing pictures if the lines in decline. Hope Queensbury tunnel gets re opened
Thanks Alan. Yes a very interesting line
It never ceases to amaze (and sadden) me to realise just how much time and effort they put into making sure that once these lines closed, they stayed closed for good. I bet you're right and most of the brick and stone (if not the iron and steel) is still on site somewhere, buried under hundreds of tons of landfill. What a waste. And worst of all, the Queensbury Tunnel saga proves they've learned absolutely nothing.
So true Richard
my ancestors were Claytons from the mentioned Clayton..
Just shows how much we have declined over the years. ☹️
Excellent commentary and visuals. Enjoyed greatly and looking forward to further installments. Many thanks.
Thanks Chris. More incoming
Halfway up Station Road (not Lane) can clearly be seen the remains of the buttresses for a bridge that would have carried a narrow-gauge line up the steep hillside towards the Scarlet Heights area of Queensbury. This was to carry the coal that had been mined by the Foster family from their small pits down in the triangle area up to the famous Black Dyke Mill above.
I filmed that for a future video
Is that the cable-hauled line that can be seen going under the tracks in one of the early photos in the video?
@@FeoragForsyth Yes that's correct
Another great video .many thanks 👍
Thanks mate
Fab explore. Fade in fade out photos brilliant. Excellent camera work. You are an outstanding film and documentary maker. Thank you.
Thank you so much 😀
If anyone is interested, Bradford council in their wisdom have decided to abandon the tunnel to its fate, owned by the Highways agency, they wish to fill it with landfill and not allow it to be used as a cycle route between Calderdale and Airedale.
If you have a mind to get on the Bradford planning portal and make your objections to the planning.
Why should we lose such a piece of engineering history 1870-1955?
It is 1.5 miles long with a slight curve. Goes right under the village of Queensbury, between Halifax and Bradford.
10 men lost their lives, and there was coal mining either side of it. But it can be brought back.
The money to save it can be recouped in tourism & tolls. The same amount of money to close it is just like throwing endless ammounts of fifty pound notes in the sea!
See Graham Bickerdyke when he took Paul & Rebecca Whitewick over the tunnel, on you Tube.
HOABL
I've covered this in the next part. It's so annoying what they are doing.
Yet another fascinating visit; many thanks for all your efforts. Why were the cuttings filled? I can understand possible safety reasons for in-filling the cutting under the footbridge but what about those that are now just continuations of fields, with no remaining nearby structures? Could this action have been part of some form of agreement with the owners of adjacent land?
I really don't know, possibly to use as agricultural land. But it seems weird to fill this in.
Nice video. I wandered around there a few years back - it was wet and very cold.
I managed the slope down to the Clayton tunnel portal - just wear thick gloves and lots of padding... Solid steel door with combination lock at boggy bottom - oh and danger warning sign thrown down the slope.
The bridge is a bit weird, I can only think that the pipe going over it prevented easy removal for scrap.
I read somewhere that the Clayton cutting was infilled without permission 🤷♂️
Most probably. I bet they used it as a dump.
Absolutely love this channel. The remains of past buildings and attractions really interest me! Great narration and great content 👍
Thank you very much!
Wow
Didn’t want it to end.
Unbelievable it was there, lived in Queensbury never knew it was there, wish we had learnt about this in school so near!
Can’t wait for the next one
Thank you
Thanks Deborah
Willow hall farm just up from the station was my grandparents house for years. I lived farm above and explored the station many a time as a child.. over 40 yrs ago
Thanks Julie. Bet that was a fun playground
Amazing history in queensbury you should check out littlemoor bud
What's there?
Awww, you didn`t go down to the tunnel portal, lol. Interesting video, history just buried.
No. Not much to see on this one. I get to the other tunnel portal in the next one though.
That's fascinating! It's a bit like ambergate, but a pre-beeching closure! For something that ran between such important towns! I'll have to look up the history!
Thanks Michael
Hello, elder brother Andy! Didn't know you were getting enthused about abandoned railways...
AdventureMe - His younger sister (that's me!) has been into railways (living and abandoned) for over 20 years. I'm based in southern Lincs and also available for abandoned railway vids with said Lincolnshire flavour, if you fancy travelling further afield...
Thanks Katherine. I'll bear that in mind when I reach Lincolnshire
Really enjoyed this. Really interesting stuff. Thanks Darren
Thanks Richard
Lovely seeing our local history brought to life, hoping that it’s not lost completely to ‘progress’ as it’s very much part of Clayton & Queensbury’s story
A fascinating look at a bygone time. A little bit sad to think of all the activity that once went on there has been largely forgotten. This series is definitely being added to the "to visit" list. The overlays are brilliant, as always. Thanks for another great series.
Thanks Stephen
Hi Darren, great episode. That first Station Rd/lane is badly in need of pot hole repairs🤔 unless its unadopted, also goes to show on the b/w image of that footbridge and booking hall? that the peas hooter/window smashes had already been there. Vandalism strikes again in the 1950's 😈
Hope the Mersey Ferry gig went well and Gary B got the upper hand on the audience. Cheers DougT in Mancs
Thanks Doug. Yeah it's in a state. The gig went really well.
The tunnel entrance through to Clayton must have been filled in at some time since the 90s. As kids we would walk into the tunnel, you could go around 200 feet, however, the track bed was pretty much flat.
Thanks
Another brilliant video of the lost railways of West Yorkshire. I love your photo fades great stuff.
Thanks Clive
great video Darren
Thanks mate
Awesome
Fascinating and so, so interesting as always! A suggestion for an explore - Culcheth linear Park which used to be the Lowton to Manchester line of the local railway.
"barking up the wrong tree" when he was stood near trees lol
I know. I noticed that when editing.
Very interesting. Looking forward to part 2
Thanks Andy. Coming soon
Excellent as always Darren.
The t.v is staying off.
This is far more entertaining/interesting.
Thanks gazza
this should be a real good one darren
Thanks Chris
Hi Darren! Been offline a while so great to see you are covering a line that is most dear to me, albeit the thing was long gone before I was even born! 😂
I was lucky enough to live in Oakworth as an infant so the ‘mysterious’ line that ran off the KWVR and then disappeared was of great interest. My dad worked in Bradford but often took the back way which involved taking roads from which you could still see the abandoned bridges etc of this line for part of the way. 🤓
Solid detective work by you and Andy, and I’d say you are probably spot on about the platform 🤔 So hard to believe there was a load of infrastructure there. Funnily enough I was thinking of Shipley, though when I was a lad there was actually only one set of platforms, so if you were going to Leeds the train would stop and have to be reversed before continuing! 🤣😂😅
It reminds me of somewhere like Bulwell, where there was once a complex of primarily coal carrying railways all interchanging, yet now there is nothing much to mention left (albeit the local passenger line still exists just ‘up the road’) to to indicate the plethora of rails that once de ends upon it! 🤷🏻♂️
Cheers mate,going to dive into the next episode now! 😉👍🍀🍻
brilliant daz
Thanks mate
Don’t stop there keep going just love it
Woow, i really enjoy the "Now & Then" line up images, when you set them both in relative to the other image. It´s not possible to imagine what those sites looked like for 70-100 years ago as a viewer without the photos. Nice 👍👍👍👍
Thanks mate. Its what I always do in the videos. Love doing the fades.
Thanks again for all your hard work Darren. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series as the Queensbury lines are one of my favourite lost railways.
What an interesting vlog. The photo overlay fades bring it all back to life. Wonderful. Thank you and I look forward to seeing the other vlogs in this series.
Thanks Harry. More to come
It's amazing that the bridge survives even after the cutting was infilled.
This is insane.
I always find it weird they fill things in to hide it's existence. Surly it costs more to fill in and hide something like that, than keep it in service in an alternative way.
Been waiting for this for ages. Was even going to suggest it as something interesting to cover, only 30secs in but hope whole series is going to be great and some mention of attempts to reopen the full line and tunnels as a walking/cycling route
Very interesting vid Darren .
Bewildering the way the evidence of the line has just be obliterated . Seems very strange as it appears to be just unused land . Not sure why they would have gone to the trouble of filling in .
Great to see you back on the disused railways hunt and the great picture fades .
Looking forward to the next installment .
Thanks Lewis. Yeah I don't know why it was filled in.
Thanks for the video. I've had a photo of this junction on my phone for age's, a really interesting place
Thanks Graham
@@AdventureMe can i ask if you know anything about the rope incline railway that ran down behind the south signal box on that site ?
@@grahampartridge9335 Part 2 should explain it
Queensbury station is responsible for getting me interested in railways and maps.
I've often had a fascination with this line. Great choice for an episode!
Can't wait for the next!
Same here! Thanks mate, coming soon.
That hill from the old station site up to Queensbury is a killer lol 😂
Tell me about it. I nearly collapsed lol
Something like the reverse of Okehampton, Ventnor or Dent, where the station is a long way above the town.
Sometime in the 80's I went here and the track bed ash had been dug out Someone did that on the line that closed near me as well, I think it must of been sold for something. There was part of a platform with the dressed stone removed and the remains of a signal post which had been cut off at ground level now exposed to its base.
Sounds fascinating
Oh i think ive just 💦 with excitement with this video 🤪🤪🤪
Is it that good? Lol. Get those tissues handy.
@@AdventureMe leavimg them till you do to halifax stretch may just have a crissis with myself 💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦😬😬😬
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Great video
Thanks mate
Thank you, the work you do is important, you should be on T.V. , very entertaining, informative and enjoyable
Thanks mate
been down there loads of times growing up
Great video. Im from Queensbury, and used to play down here as a kid.
Thanks Clinton
Oi! don't stop now, I was just settled down nicely there!!!! Am I being a bit dense in asking why all that lot was there when it appears to be in the middle of nowhere?? I'll just sit here twiddling my thumbs andcwait for Pt. 2👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
It was just a busy junction that was near Queensbury so they thought to add a station too I think.
I’ve lived in Queensbury for about 15/16 years now and honestly never knew that bridge at 5:00 was even there 🤣class video
Thanks mate. Glad to help
Such a shame all that wonderful infrastructure and architecture was just erased from history. I’m just hoping that the campaign to save Queensbury Tunnel is successful (though I’m not holding my breath).
I hope so too
love your picture fades, great idea.
Do love these historical video vlogs. I also love exploring old railways. I was a railway signalman from 1990 to 2011 and worked several signal boxes that have now vanished. This is well researched and produced Darren so well done. Slowly getting through them all lol😉
Thanks 👍
Can still see something at all three ends of the lines. At Halifax the platform still exists; it's some sort of children's place now. At Bradford you can still just about make out, or at least could a couple of years ago when I last looked, where the line went. Coming out of Exchange station, or today's Interchange, it took the line towards Leeds but then immediately diverged Westwards from that line at St. Dunstans and passed under the present route to Low Moor etc and head towards Queensbury. At Keighley a short section of the line still exists as far as the site of the junction for the Oxenhope branch which is still open as the K&WVR. If you look Eastwards from a train before reaching Ingrow West station it is possible to see the remains of the abuttments of a bridge which carried the main line to Ingrow East.
Thanks Stephen
Great video. I have just walked down past the station into Thornton over the viaduct. Nice walk but coming back uphill on Station Road back into Queensbury was a struggle. Like you say - that had probably something to do with the stations demise although I can imagine a fleet of horse and carts operating on that road. Looking forward to part 2.
You will see me suffering the hill in the next episode
Around five years ago I was a courier in this area on a Sunday. I used to spend my lunchtimes exploring this fascinating site, and have many books about Queensbury.
The combination of the unusual triangular shape of the site, together with the infilling makes it very difficult to orientate yourself on site.
A fascinating part one, I look forward to future episodes.
Thanks Richard. Yeah very disorientated
I found it so interesting, Darren. Love the old photos you've shown with the present day scenes. Many thanks.
Many thanks
The viaduct at Queensbury Station was only demolished in the early 1990s.
I didn't know that
Thanks again for starting another series of railway history. So appreciate the period photos to give an explanation/perspective of what was there. Can you explain why the area was filled in as opposed to simply removing the track & infrastructure? Being a rural area & it hasn't been developed I can't see why it was filled in. Also where did the infill come from: it would have taken thousands of tons of material to do it for no reason?
Thanks Gary. I really don't know, I guess the farmer had a little profit scheme going on with local refuse companies
Darren your vlogs just get better and better your attention to detail coupled with your photo overlays and history make for great viewing hats off to you mate for making these great videos.
Thanks Scott.
Great start to what looks like is going to be a fantastic series. I'm just sorry I couldn't have joined you both on this new adventure but I was away at the time. looking forward to the next one
Thanks Pete. Maybe next time
Great video Darren, as always your fades are fantastic.
Keep them coming.
Thanks
Hi guys that was very interesting I was a fireman on the railway, Market Harborough, it will be interesting to see your next video.
Thanks Ronald
Great vid. Saw some photos that someone who managed to get into Clayton tunnel had taken. Most of the inside is still in really good condition, there was an abandoned cannabis grow farm deep in there too.
Thanks Brendan. Yeah I saw those.
Absolutely amazing this is I know it well use to live in Queensbury always wanted to go in Queensbury tunnel
Thanks Mathew
This is really interesting. I went looking for the Clayton tunnel and never found it. Now I can see why I didn't find it.
Yeah it wasn't easy to find
Great stuff Darren, can you tell me why the land has to be filled to level the cutting, cant they leave it alone.
Thanks. I have no idea. Just a dump by the looks of it.
Another interesting video, you follow a very diverse trail and you cover a lot of subjects credit to you
Thank you very much!
Just started to watch (literally) and same as others have said "wouldn't know there was a station at Queensbury looking on google maps " usually there are SOME clues ..there are a few there (Queensbury tunnel ..good luck to you when you do that to Halifax lol! AND you can just make out where the top end of the junction is/was at the top end going to Keithly and a small bit going towards Bradford! ) but I never knew Queensbury was a junction between Halifax. Keithly and Bradford! looking forward to seeing your next 2 vids on the other routes from Queensbury to Halifax and Bradford!
It sure is. I'm enjoying doing this one.
@@AdventureMe IF you ever come down to do the Bristol temple meads to Bath green park line where I live (it's the 1st Sustrans cycle route that was done BUT NOT ALL THE WAY TO BATH!) i know a lot about it it had some Massive goods yards and a station before you got to Temple meads station (even then it carried on to the docks railway via a tunnel from temple meads etc) Sustrans have done a really good job along the line/cycleway to preserve stations and tunnels along the way ( staple hill platforms etc and also not really on the cycle route but on a spur that once linked between there and Montpelier station ( station STILL IN USE ) there were some impressive Viaducts the biggest was sadly demolished to build the m32 BUT the Royate Hill viaduct is still there to explore as an offshoot!) other stations still visible along the route is Mangotsfield station/junction (similar to Queensbury but with a station squarely on the triangle) with some of the station walls still surviving etc also Mangotsfield is of note as it was where Arnold Ridley (aka Private Godfrey from dads army) got the inspiration to write the play the ghost train after being stranded there on the night ...it was later made into a film in 1941 with Arthur Askey!) also, some of the line is now a heritage line but you can actually walk along next to it ...anyhow lol IF you decide at some point to visit Bristol and follow that line I would be very happy to tag along can read more about the line here ..www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/bristol-and-bath-railway-path/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1ZeUBhDyARIsAOzAqQKXHAQSBIV5wm1BOdt9avGixglxKyt5lRN_wE7wKbp6Mjipt-vWcrUaAnMWEALw_wcB
My lad lives in Queensbury, looking forward to this one when I eventually get home from work 🙌
Thanks mate. Enjoy
@@AdventureMe Cracking video as usual. Sent the link to mi lad as well. Love those photo fades, really helps my imagination how it was. Looking forward to part 2
When I visited in the late 1980s, the station hadn’t been filled in, the viaduct was still there. The concrete station name sign on the Bfd-Kly platform was still there but broken over. It said Queensbury change for Halifax. Under the Hfx-Kly curve there was a small bridge (possibly passenger underpass), by the late 1980s it had been partially filled with broken gravestones. Not sure where they had come from or when.
We just find this place on the map, we going to see next week.
As I only live in Pudsey
Enjoy
Awesome video and so interesting, are there plans to open up the Queensbury tunnel as a cycleway ?
Yes there are. Watch part 2 when it comes out for more info.
The master of photo fade, excellent video Darren really enjoyed this one
Thanks Pete
That's a wonderful video, always interests me what's still there after so many years
Thanks Robert