Brilliant, I drive the part from Spen Valley junction to Heaton Lodge on the Liverpool Drax trains, I came across this while searching the 9f hauled Stanlow oil trains. I never realised Spen valley junction was 20mph, we go through that site now at 60, you can still see the signal box retaining wall. Ive got the cinerail DVDs of steam in this area. Always an enjoyable watch.
Thank you for your comment. According to the Roy Waring book Spen Valley junction really was 20mph! The 10 coach Newcastle expresses could not open up untill all coaches had cleared the junction to get a "run" at the 1 in 80 after the underpass. Of course this will all look very different again soon as electrification and back to four track work is about to begin soon. I have nearly completed Birstall Town to Kirkburton Junction for a east west journey on the line. Coming soon!
Thank you for your comment. We have lost so much and railways are just one example. Trains used to be so beautiful that is why heritage railways are so popular, but they are just playing at Trains. I have just been editing the Heckmondwike area. So many lines there once and now not one!
Quiet a lot of errors between Northorpe & Heckmondwike, I know, as I was born very close, and crossed the railway many times as a kid and as a farmer with fields beside that railway. Two bridges missing, then closer to Heckmondwike, where the line meets to line from Northorpe Lower to Heckmondwike Central, it crossed a steel girder bridge, no connection to the line to The Central station. Walkley Lane Bridge was a stone arch bridge, not a steel bridge, Its still there today, never been changed in my lifetime, L lived beside the spen line which the train crossed before getting to Heckmondwike, I lived aprox half a mile from there at one time and never more than a mile away since 1956, so I remember a lot about this line. Oh absolutely no water on left of line between Northorpe & Heckmondwike, other than the small stream (Spen Beck) . brings back memories, my mate who is 5 years older than me was a very keen trainspotter as a kid in this area too. Oh and no signal box on the left before Heckmondwike. You adding a little fiction ? My mate has always lived at Gomersal, he would put you right on that part of his home railway. (That is IF you wish to get it right, if so get intouch
@@elizabethdarley8646 Thank you too, I have walked ect ect this area all my 64yrs, If I turn to my right while typing this reply, I'm looking over this area of 3 former lines, now all gone, but I still have one particular picture in my mind, must have been early 60s of a steam train chugging up the line from wakefield on a cold frosty morning, out of my house window, it was probably heading to Low Moor area, I don't really know, but I used to see trains on all these 3 tracks crossing my view across the fields, back in those years. A good source of information is "Old Maps Online", but that does not tell you id the marking on the map line side are embankments or cutting, as the both look the same.
Thanks for your comment. When I finish the route to a standard I think is good enough I will publish the route. At the moment there is still a lot of tidying up to do, and I need to learn how to re- skin station signs etc. Also the home down semaphore at Battyeford stubbornly refuses to work!
Thanks. I intend to start soon on part two - Heckmondwike to Gomersal, but got diverted. I have nearly finished Bradley to Heckmondwike Central via Mirfield on the L&Y. Then I will return to the "New Line." Peter Darley
Excellent work. I'm pleased to say that I'm just a bit too young to remember the line in use, but growing up in Mirfield and having lived in both Bradley and Heckmondwike as well, I can see lots of things I recognise. Darren from the Adventure Me TH-cam channel did a video recently about this section of the line visiting Heaton Lodge and the site of Battyeford Station. Well worth a look. (th-cam.com/video/C34BcKc6ZzE/w-d-xo.html)
The new line was the line to see the charrington Hargreaves oil train on the virduct over nettelton road in winter Megger whellslip living only 100 meters from my bedroom window wi
@@elizabethdarley8646 Yes 19 armoury avenue went train spotting with Peter many times when at school many trips to Newcastle and Liverpool .have not seen Peter for over fifty years .how about meeting u P p.
Brilliant, I drive the part from Spen Valley junction to Heaton Lodge on the Liverpool Drax trains, I came across this while searching the 9f hauled Stanlow oil trains. I never realised Spen valley junction was 20mph, we go through that site now at 60, you can still see the signal box retaining wall. Ive got the cinerail DVDs of steam in this area. Always an enjoyable watch.
Thank you for your comment. According to the Roy Waring book Spen Valley junction really was 20mph! The 10 coach Newcastle expresses could not open up untill all coaches had cleared the junction to get a "run" at the 1 in 80 after the underpass. Of course this will all look very different again soon as electrification and back to four track work is about to begin soon. I have nearly completed Birstall Town to Kirkburton Junction for a east west journey on the line. Coming soon!
This is brilliant
Just imagine if this line was still open......
Take me back to that time, what have we destroyed..this is my Britain !
Thank you for your comment. We have lost so much and railways are just one example. Trains used to be so beautiful that is why heritage railways are so popular, but they are just playing at Trains. I have just been editing the Heckmondwike area. So many lines there once and now not one!
Quiet a lot of errors between Northorpe & Heckmondwike, I know, as I was born very close, and crossed the railway many times as a kid and as a farmer with fields beside that railway. Two bridges missing, then closer to Heckmondwike, where the line meets to line from Northorpe Lower to Heckmondwike Central, it crossed a steel girder bridge, no connection to the line to The Central station. Walkley Lane Bridge was a stone arch bridge, not a steel bridge, Its still there today, never been changed in my lifetime, L lived beside the spen line which the train crossed before getting to Heckmondwike, I lived aprox half a mile from there at one time and never more than a mile away since 1956, so I remember a lot about this line. Oh absolutely no water on left of line between Northorpe & Heckmondwike, other than the small stream (Spen Beck) . brings back memories, my mate who is 5 years older than me was a very keen trainspotter as a kid in this area too. Oh and no signal box on the left before Heckmondwike. You adding a little fiction ? My mate has always lived at Gomersal, he would put you right on that part of his home railway. (That is IF you wish to get it right, if so get intouch
Thank you for your comments and apologies for the errors. I hope to have these corrected before I publish this completed route on Steam Workshop.
@@elizabethdarley8646 Thank you too, I have walked ect ect this area all my 64yrs, If I turn to my right while typing this reply, I'm looking over this area of 3 former lines, now all gone, but I still have one particular picture in my mind, must have been early 60s of a steam train chugging up the line from wakefield on a cold frosty morning, out of my house window, it was probably heading to Low Moor area, I don't really know, but I used to see trains on all these 3 tracks crossing my view across the fields, back in those years. A good source of information is "Old Maps Online", but that does not tell you id the marking on the map line side are embankments or cutting, as the both look the same.
as cgi gets better this would be like being there if only
Thanks for your comment. When I finish the route to a standard I think is good enough I will publish the route. At the moment there is still a lot of tidying up to do, and I need to learn how to re- skin station signs etc. Also the home down semaphore at Battyeford stubbornly refuses to work!
Very nice, will this route ever become available to the public?
When is Part 2. I'm really hyped for that
Thanks. I intend to start soon on part two - Heckmondwike to Gomersal, but got diverted. I have nearly finished Bradley to Heckmondwike Central via Mirfield on the L&Y. Then I will return to the "New Line."
Peter Darley
@@elizabethdarley8646 great. Looking forward
Excellent work. I'm pleased to say that I'm just a bit too young to remember the line in use, but growing up in Mirfield and having lived in both Bradley and Heckmondwike as well, I can see lots of things I recognise. Darren from the Adventure Me TH-cam channel did a video recently about this section of the line visiting Heaton Lodge and the site of Battyeford Station. Well worth a look. (th-cam.com/video/C34BcKc6ZzE/w-d-xo.html)
The new line was the line to see the charrington Hargreaves oil train on the virduct over nettelton road in winter Megger whellslip
living only 100 meters from my bedroom window wi
David. Did you live at number 20 Armoury Avenue? Peter Darley
@@elizabethdarley8646
Yes 19 armoury avenue went train spotting with Peter many times when at school many trips to Newcastle and
Liverpool .have not seen Peter for over fifty years .how about meeting u
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