Railway Relics of Yesteryear

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Sat 10 Mar, 2007 1:38 am

Does anyone have any idea how old the bridge they are taking down at Cross Gates station is?

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Sat 10 Mar, 2007 10:16 am

The line was built in 1834, I doubt if the bridge has been up since then tho. I reckon it must be a 100yr old easily.. Here's a nice page about the line http://www.lner.info/article/selby/selby.shtml

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Sun 11 Mar, 2007 3:25 pm

There's an old bridge abutment from the original Middleton railway line of 1758 where it crossed the Midland main line & ran towards the coal staithes at Casson street (No longer in existance near to Leeds bridge) This view is from the bottom of Dewsbury road looking towards Hunslet. The bridge would have been built in 1846 when the Midland dug out the cutting to reach Leeds Wellington station.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Sun 11 Mar, 2007 3:37 pm

There's not much documented about this stretch of line so i'll use the power of the internet to record it for posteriety :-)

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Tue 13 Mar, 2007 12:29 am

At the start of the first world war there was a "Leeds Pals" tram positioned on the loop line outside the Morely Town Hall. It was there during 1914 and was used to recruit volunteers for the Pals battalion. Does anyone know what became of it

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Tue 13 Mar, 2007 1:45 pm

There is still an old tramshed at the top of Wood lane in rothwell at the Jaw Bones junction with Leeds / Wakefield Road.

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Wed 14 Mar, 2007 11:25 pm

The footbridge at Cross Gates has been demolished I have a couple of photos that I could not manage to upload atwww.flickr.com/photos/seant_25/

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 1:16 pm

20522tay wrote: The footbridge at Cross Gates has been demolished I have a couple of photos that I could not manage to upload atwww.flickr.com/photos/seant_25/ Nice work Tay. It's good to get some before & after pics! The link you added doesn't work properly, It should work here instead http://flickr.com/photos/seant_25/

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 8:54 pm

The attached is a photo of half the bridge after it had been taken down. The other half had unfortunately been cut up before i got there

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 8:56 pm

This photo show a view of Cross Gates Railway station after the old footbridge had been taken down.Thanks to Phil for letting me know how to resize my photos