Leeds Railway Station's 'Lost World'

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 11:33 pm

. Note the arch is different.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 11:35 pm

Wife wants me to stop now!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 11:36 pm

chameleon wrote: Brilliant Cardi. Not sure if the car park is still used by CS. Various Departments were 'resident in there and it was closely monitored in the past by cctv at which time your inocent wanderings could have led to the water feeling rather hot! Clearly no longer the case Well done sir. Thanks - there was a couple of Hummers in there at the time kitted out for some sort of party hire.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Wed 24 Mar, 2010 11:38 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: Nice bit of photography there!I'll have to look at them in more detail later. The two types of older stonework, and newer brickwork are very evident seen together. Thanks - there's loads of phases of building and diff arches. It's great.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 25 Mar, 2010 1:20 am

This must be one of the most popular threads ever,stretching to 10 pages in just over a fortnight.Jim's insider knowledge and other members going out and lookingand taking photos is amazing participation for the benefit of other posters.Need to take some time to read thro and ingest.one of my memories of the Dark Arches/Queens was a huge gas meter,is it still there ?

BIG N · Post by **BIG N** » Thu 25 Mar, 2010 2:54 am

Cardi - reference the modern steelwork you mention, would this not be New Station Street as viewed from underneath possibly?? Incidentally, the Commercial garages Ltd Arch which you quite rightly mention as being of a different design is one I have noticed in the past.I actually thought, without the benifit of viewing it from the back, that at one time, long ago, it had been a road, just an assumption on my part.

jim · Post by **jim** » Thu 25 Mar, 2010 7:59 am

Fascinating stuff,Cardiarms. I've never been under this side of Neville Street, my ramblings were always confined to arches that the Railway hadn't let to tenants,so this is all new to me.Can I suggest that the concrete pillars you depict support, not City House, looking from the top of Bishopgate Street that is to the west of Neville Street, but the building further east, which used to be the British Railways Staff Association Club? The pillars supporting that building rise some twenty feet or so above New station Street, to allow the bay track and platform to pass beneath it.It is a place I knew fairly well, as I maintained it's lift, occasionally visited it socially, and on rarer occasions even performed on it's concert room stage!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 25 Mar, 2010 8:25 am

JimCould be, it was a quick visit and I didn't have time to work out the alignment. In my head City House goes over eville Street, but it's strange what you think you know and what is. The club will need something to hold it up and nothing is in evidence in the other arches.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 25 Mar, 2010 8:36 am

Big N, I'm not sure but I don't think so. I think New Station Street goes over the takeaways, also in my memory the beams are set lower than the new road, starting at about neville Street ground level at the top of the ramp. It is a bit of a jumble and needs a revisit.

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 25 Mar, 2010 8:53 am

Cardiarms wrote: JimCould be, it was a quick visit and I didn't have time to work out the alignment. In my head City House goes over eville Street, but it's strange what you think you know and what is. The club will need something to hold it up and nothing is in evidence in the other arches. Looking at Google Earth, Neville street is depicted as passing underneath almost the centre of the eatern wing of City House. A Poulson affair so could be held up on anything, but good chance these are part of the roadway, if steel rather than concrete.