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Hi I was wondering if anyone new anything about the old railway line which ran from the bottom on Middleton Woods , to the far end of Derwsbury Road, near the White rose center. It roughly follows the line of Dewsburr Road, hopefully i can attatch a map to this with it's outline on. i used to play as a kid in this section until it was filled in sometime in the mid 80's.ThanksRuss    Don't seem to be able to upload a pic from Google maps, may be the uni server blocking the upload??

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dervish99 wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone new anything about the old railway line which ran from the bottom on Middleton Woods , to the far end of Derwsbury Road, near the White rose center. It roughly follows the line of Dewsburr Road, hopefully i can attatch a map to this with it's outline on. i used to play as a kid in this section until it was filled in sometime in the mid 80's.ThanksRuss    Don't seem to be able to upload a pic from Google maps, may be the uni server blocking the upload?? This has come up before - Phill can you for one help here?

chameleon wrote: dervish99 wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone new anything about the old railway line which ran from the bottom on Middleton Woods , to the far end of Derwsbury Road, near the White rose center. It roughly follows the line of Dewsburr Road, hopefully i can attatch a map to this with it's outline on. i used to play as a kid in this section until it was filled in sometime in the mid 80's.ThanksRuss    Don't seem to be able to upload a pic from Google maps, may be the uni server blocking the upload?? This has come up before - Phill can you for one help here? I can indeed. It used to be the 'Great Northern Railway' Beeston Junction to Hunslet Goods line until it closed in 1967. The line is still intact from Neville Hill, It winds down hill through Cross green to the road stone facility at Knowsthorpe. The line then used to cross the River Aire over the huge swing bridge featured on S.L before.Buffer stops are now in place at the severed bridge over the river, any trace of the line from that point towards Beeston has long since gone. There the line ran across Wakefield road (the railway bridge remains can still be seen here) Then it crossed (and had a connection with) the Middleton railway before travelling through Beeston towards Tingley and Morley.There are some pictures and maps of the line here (sadly there isn't much around the Tommy Wass/Beeston area.http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co ... %20gds.htm                

Thanks Phil, that is where i mean. I was looking on the lost railways but couldnt pin point it as i did not know which opperator it was. It shows up well on google maps, much of the old embankment that runs by the Southleighs was sold off for garden extensions. many a happy day were spent down there till they filled it in. On the far side of the miggy ring road there used to be a strange small holding on an "island" which was a very large hill, where the tracks used to run down the right hand side towards the White Rose center and perhaps a siding area to it's left. Russ

Nice one Russ Most of the line has been built on in South Leeds, but you can still make it out on Google earth, The Tingley viaduct is still intact that the line used.Pictures of the line around Dewsbury road towads Morley can be seen in this section of Lost rails.http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co ... eeston.htm    

Beeston stn on the main line closed before Beeching struck.It was used on match days at Elland Road(Saturdays)In the days of diesel units a special steam train ran from the Pontefract area via Stanley,Ardsley to Leeds Central calling at Beeston

There was certainly another railway line that ran parallel with the London line. It had been lifted by the late sixties when I started going to (what we called) Middleton train spotting. I believe it crossed Morley "Top" line at Tingley and then ran through Woodkirk tunnel to a junction at Batley and then into the Wakefield/Bradford via Dewsbury line.It was certainly possible at one time to travel from Morley Top station to Leeds via Tingley but you had to change trains at Tingley Station.

Phill_dvsn wrote: chameleon wrote: dervish99 wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone new anything about the old railway line which ran from the bottom on Middleton Woods , to the far end of Derwsbury Road, near the White rose center. It roughly follows the line of Dewsburr Road, hopefully i can attatch a map to this with it's outline on. i used to play as a kid in this section until it was filled in sometime in the mid 80's.ThanksRuss    Don't seem to be able to upload a pic from Google maps, may be the uni server blocking the upload?? This has come up before - Phill can you for one help here? I can indeed. It used to be the 'Great Northern Railway' Beeston Junction to Hunslet Goods line until it closed in 1967. The line is still intact from Neville Hill, It winds down hill through Cross green to the road stone facility at Knowsthorpe. The line then used to cross the River Aire over the huge swing bridge featured on S.L before.Buffer stops are now in place at the severed bridge over the river, any trace of the line from that point towards Beeston has long since gone. There the line ran across Wakefield road (the railway bridge remains can still be seen here) Then it crossed (and had a connection with) the Middleton railway before travelling through Beeston towards Tingley and Morley.There are some pictures and maps of the line here (sadly there isn't much around the Tommy Wass/Beeston area.http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co ... %20gds.htm                 I'm interested in the old OS map. Not on topic fully but the waterloo colliery line to Park Pit by the sewage works is extended with a branch off to the south forking and ending by the river - wonder what that was??