D.C.I. Banks

[volvojack]

Last night watching on T.V. a disjointed episode of D.C.I. Banks the Detective series filmed in and around Leeds.
In this one they showed a man coming out of The Harp Pub (ex. Duke William) in Lincoln Green and he been deliberately involved in a hit and run. Later there was "We have found the car burnt out in East End Park" then they showed a car in a tunnel with the Police and the car around it. My question is Is I know the railway runs by the park and as a kid played football many times on the park but don't recall a tunnel. Is there one.

[jim]

The line from Neville Hill to Hunslet East has a tunnel I believe.

EDIT:- From buffaloskinner's link to Bing Maps below, it seems that the line runs only through "long" bridges.

[buffaloskinner]

If you look on either Google Maps or Bing Maps you can follow the lines

This is Bing Maps view and East End Park is on the right of the map, there is a branch line to Stourton in the top left of the map

https://www.bing.com/mapspreview?osid=f ... orm=S00027

[volvojack]

So if if i came up Pontefract Lane with the Cricket Club on my right up to where the Bridgefield Pub used to be and then turned right over the bridge am i anywhere near this tunnel ?

[warringtonrhino]

Just because the majority if the episode was filmed in East End Park, does not necessarily mean that the tunnel was there.
It is not uncommon for a vehicle to turn off a street in one area and finish up in a street miles away.

[tyke bhoy]

I think Jack we need to remember this is fiction so although they said it is in EEP it could have been shot in any railway tunnel. As I haven't seen it I'm assuming it was a railway tunnel. If so it would be on a disused or rarely used line and the branch line mentioned by Jim and Buffalo Skinner probably fits that bill however there isn't really a tunnel but several wide bridges heading south as follows.

1. There is a bridge over a cutting on Pontefract Lane from memory adjacent to where the Bridgefield was. Because the intersection is a way off perpendicular the bridge would be elongated on the rail line but given the road is 3 narrow road lanes its hard to see that looking anything other than a bridge from below.
2. Glencoe View - a bridge that appears to have linked Easy Road and Cross Green Lane. This though is pretty much perpendicular to the rail line and although disused looks like it would only have been a two lane road
3. Fewston Avenue - a bridge/street that appears to have completed a loop with Cavalier Approach and Cross Green Lane. This though is also pretty much perpendicular to the rail line and againalthough disused looks like it would only have been a two lane road
4. Cross Green Lane combined with the A63 (Long Causeway/Knowsthorpe Crescent. I think the A63 was built as motorway standard trunk road although there are also wide footpaths on either side and an east bound cycle lane. There are therefore 5 wide lanes and a wide central reservation. The railway bisescts at an angle and curves slightly underneath which all adds to elongate the bridge from below. Add on that the aforementioned railway cutting starts/finishes on the north side of the bridge and the Cross Green Lane bridge carrying two very wide road lanes is just over the width of St Hilda's church away and I could see a camera angle giving the appearance that the combo is a tunnel (entirely enclosed) especially in low light conditions as long as a street light doesn't interfere

Google Maps overhead closeup on 4 https://goo.gl/maps/QnkCZ1JgvrK2

Edit to say WarringtonRhino had the first same observation as me while I was composing the rest

[volvojack]

Thanks for the reply's Chaps......I was only enquiring

[volvojack]

He is on again tonight at pm. and although the story is improbable, A Chinaman being kidnapped and killed while his wife runs round the Trinity Centre holding three carrier bags, one of which is holding £250,000 ransom money. They showed some lovely shots inside and out of the Corn Exchange so hopefully there will be something similar tonight