Features - Tunnels Under City Station

munki · Post by **munki** » Wed 05 Oct, 2011 7:00 am

As per usual with the YEP, I don't remember saying any of that! But Neil's done a nice job on the articles & managed to get himself into some good places!

munki · Post by **munki** » Wed 05 Oct, 2011 7:01 am

And as for...“The work of Secret Leeds members is second to none in terms of the level of research they manage to achieve.”Well, even if I didn't say it, I believe it!

munki · Post by **munki** » Wed 05 Oct, 2011 9:38 am

...& as for his article today, I think the man deserves some kind of medal! 3,500 litres of waste per second? & I read that before breakfast.

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Wed 05 Oct, 2011 11:08 am

near the end of the video it shows an old store room with a plan chest towards the left hand side. This, I bet contains many old construction, design and as fitted drawings of old refurbishment works at the station. It would be great to catalogue and scan these for posterity.

greenhow302 · Post by **greenhow302** » Wed 05 Oct, 2011 12:01 pm

A work colleague of mine some years ago had a VERY large plan of Leeds City Station on loan to him from some local Railway or Model Railway Society? He was mad about model railways; I say was because he died some years ago. It was about 4 foot wide and many feet long, but I think it was just trackwork and surface layout. I didn’t get much time to study it. Have you though about approaching local Railway or Model Railway Societies?

jim · Post by **jim** » Wed 05 Oct, 2011 12:16 pm

Hi geoffb. As this was the Signal and Telegraph Dept's dedicated area all plans and documents to be found there would be devoted to those subjects - and would in any case have almost certainly been rehoused when that department moved its operations - I'm afraid I don't hold out much hope for the kind of finds you are hoping for. All the documents of the type you seek that I am aware of were in the sub-basement of Aire Street Offices, and were in the care of the Estates Department. Edit - I still have a 40' to 1" 1910 map of most of the station that was found in a skip behind Aire Street Offices if that would interest you.

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Wed 05 Oct, 2011 1:12 pm

Jim,I was interested in the drawings. Last year we were surveying an old gas site and in the basement was a plan chest just like the one in the video, inside, most things had been removed other than a linen drawing dating back to 1927 showing the elevations of the proposed new Gas Board offices on Gower Street. The draughtsmanship and art work were superb. This drawing is now framed and hangs in British Gas HQ.

PC - Dublin · Post by **PC - Dublin** » Fri 07 Oct, 2011 10:17 am

Great to see the acknowledgement of Secret Leeds in the YEP. Looks like Secret leeds' no secret anymore !!PC

Post by **cnosni** » Fri 07 Oct, 2011 10:27 am

chameleon wrote: PART 2 today -http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 1_3836851A little more detail in this one but referring back through this thread and others about the arches complex will fill many gaps and help pinpoint dome of the locations.A worthy and appreciated note too about Secret Leeds and its valuable contribution to discovering and recording history and data about our local environment together with a contribution from our very own munki Myself and Digger approached the lady in the video,who was guiding them around,for a similar tour.We met her face to face,and despite a number subsequent approaches she didnt let us look around.Shame really,as im sure Phil would have done an even better job and an in depth blog to go with it.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 09 Dec, 2011 8:53 pm

With the heavy rain/thawing snow and resulting flooding in parts of Yorkshire yesterday and being in the centre of Leeds today (Dec 9 2011) I thought it might be interesting to see what the water flow was like where the River Aire runs in the Dark Arches area under the City Station. The flow was perhaps not as heavy as I expected (hoped!) but I still took some photos and this one shows a scene from the road/pedestrian bridge.