PUDSEY AIR VENT

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 07 Jun, 2010 4:43 pm

Not only is that embankement high. It might be only double track width at the top, but at the base, it's very wide indeed. The Victorians sure moved mountain and earth

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon 07 Jun, 2010 5:03 pm

Hi Si and Phill. Perhaps a fair amount of fill came from the deep cuttings to the west of the embankment? As I recall there were two from Tyersall junction, one northerly to Cutlers Junction, and the other completing the triangle with the Bradford - Wakefield line to Broad Lane Junction. Cuttings usually produce more fill than tunnels, being an inverted embankment.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 07 Jun, 2010 8:43 pm

rehtnap wrote: i was told ogdens the building firm bought the embankment as its a lot of yorkshire stone in its construction and they wanted to retrieve it only to find a greenbelt order slapped on it. further up the line towards tyrsal is where during ww2 there was a false yeadon airport made from wood and canvas to fool the germans. There's a fair bit of dressed millstone grit and sandstone used for the cuttings, portals, bridges, etc, but the vast majority of the embankment is earth. I don't think it would be financially viable to buy the whole thing (let alone dismantle it) just for the stone, even for Ogdens!I haven't heard of the phoney Yeadon aerodrome at Tyersal. What do you know about it, Rehtnap? Where exactly was it?

rehtnap · Post by **rehtnap** » Fri 26 Sep, 2014 7:46 pm

hi only 4 years late replying i was told that in the fields above the embankment there was a false air field built. now ive done some searching it was in the fields overlooking the embankment.http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?ho ... ounty=None& district=None&parish=None&place=&recordsperpage=10&source=text&rtype=&rnumber=&p=3&move=n&nor=73&recfc=0# the guy that told me was the owner of an old building firm in pudsey he also told me of the lost german airplane that straifted the main street in pudsey town centre. i do remember being stood with him as he laughed that ogdens had just dropped a clanger in buying the embankment, they all knew each other back then. his firm capped the deep well that opened up on the corner of the what was then a pub next to the small market place.