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http://leeds.smee.googlepages.com/ourtrackFound this one. So is this the actual track etc from Temple Newsam?

I remember when I where a lad, there were concrete posts in the woods just to the left of the main gates from Whitkirk church, my scout leader told me they were the uprights for the raised track, that was in the early eighties. No track still remained then though.The one at Roundhay Park, I remember around 1985 new tracks being built, it didn't last long though due to vandals. I don't know if that one was built over the line of the original or not?And yes there's a railway at Kirkstall Abbey, only runs weekends though I think.

The railway at Kirkstall Abbey is owned and run by a chap called Peter Lowe. He was one of my lecturers at Kitson College back in the 80's. A smashing bloke, he was a bit of a Fred Dibnah character, and could always be thrown off topic by alluding to the history of engineering or how Mr Whitworth developed his thread system etc, etc.

Funny you say that Liits.. I've just done a full article on Peter's railway here.http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Mess ... readID=656 He is a great charcter too. Well described with the Fred Dibnah similarity too.

Some photos of the miniature railway at Temple Newsam have been posted on a FB group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/crossga ... dtomorrow/

Reference the Abbey Light Railway , KirkstallThis Railway has been closed and all equipment sold off owing to the death of the owner either last year or late 2012 . One engine LOWCO was purchased by a chap from Poppleton Railway Nursery , York , I think the majority went down South to another small gauge railway .P.S. you might want to add this to other thread mentioned here , ta .

Croggy1 wrote: Some photos of the miniature railway at Temple Newsam have been posted on a FB group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/crossga ... dtomorrow/ Hiya Croggy1. In order to view the photos I have to log into Facecbook, but I'm not a member of that so I cannot view the photos. Is there a link that will allow non-Facebook members to see them?    

I can remember back in the 1980s coming across a private railway in someones garden that lay adjacent to Brow Wood. I can remember seeing the tracks and some wagons as well as signals and railway lamps etc. No locomotive was visible but there was a large engine shed which may have contained one.

Leodian wrote: Croggy1 wrote: Some photos of the miniature railway at Temple Newsam have been posted on a FB group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/crossga ... dtomorrow/ Hiya Croggy1. In order to view the photos I have to log into Facecbook, but I'm not a member of that so I cannot view the photos. Is there a link that will allow non-Facebook members to see them?     Leo - The same photos that are on the Facebook link can be viewed here with the exception of the one attached https://sites.google.com/site/leedssmee/our-history    

Cheers uncle mick for that link. It was interesting reading and looked fun riding the railway. The 1938 report mentions the "Crypt below Leeds Town Hall". I've never been below the Town Hall so I wonder if the crypt is the old police cells and rooms or if there is (was?) a large crypt feature?