If you go down to the woods today.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 24 May, 2007 12:14 pm

FarnleyBloke wrote: Phill_d wrote: No not near Pool.. The tunnel was on the 'Leeds new line' for any rail buffs out there.. Oh right!! Doh! :-)How did i not think of that? Someone on here was looking at one of the old staion locations half a mile away from here not long ago. I think it could have been you Farnley

FarnleyBloke · Post by **FarnleyBloke** » Thu 24 May, 2007 2:19 pm

Phill_d wrote: FarnleyBloke wrote: Phill_d wrote: No not near Pool.. The tunnel was on the 'Leeds new line' for any rail buffs out there.. Oh right!! Doh! :-)How did i not think of that? Someone on here was looking at one of the old staion locations half a mile away from here not long ago. I think it could have been you Farnley Yeh it was me. Discovered yesterday it was called St Bernards Station named after the St Bernards mill on the other side of the main road (I won't mention the road as other people may still be trying to work it out) which someone on here mentioned a couple of weeks back as it has a big St Bernards statue on the roof.On an interesting side-note when i went down there i decided to carry on up the road that the station was on only to find my way blocked by a gate erected straight across the road, (road used in the loosest of terms!) In the YEP there have been a couple of articles suggesting this may not be legal and they are thinking about taking it down, which is good news for any explorers.

Loiner · Post by **Loiner** » Thu 24 May, 2007 3:49 pm

I've alot of interest in this piece of disused railway as it runs about a mile from my house in churwell. I know it wont happen but gildersome station was closed down because no-one used it - with the massive development of the Ibbestson estate just over the m621 and a direct footpath down there it would get a hell of alot more use today. If only there were still a line there! if you follow the 'road' with the gate (you can walk around the gate as its a public footpath - i think the gate is there to stop cars going through, over the m621 and the out into morley. would be nice shortcut through though). Someone recently pointed me in the direction of an old black and white picture of a service running up the leeds new line just before gildersome station. Have tried to attach but the first time i've tried this so not sure it'll work.Loiner

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Fri 25 May, 2007 11:26 am

A great picture that Loiner. The picture location is just leaving Gildersome tunnel near the Showcase cinema. Incidentally the engine pictured is the reason i first got interested in trains. It's a class 40 or type 4 to the older generation. A truely awesome machine. The longest & heaviest machine on B.R metals in it's heyday. I spent my mispent youth (bunked schooldays) getting as many miles out of these old girls before they got withdrawn. My favourite recollection of them is on Summer Saturday holiday relief trains over the trans pennine route.. They'd be hammering away speed down to about 30m.p.h up the tortuous climb to Standedge, Generators howling, sparks & flames emmiting from the exhaust ports! AHH the good old days. Incidentally there are 7 of these still preserved & 40145 will be paying a visit to Leeds this Bank hol Mon.. The new line was another great engineering feat with some tremendous earthworks & tunnels. It took a staggering 14 years to build

Loiner · Post by **Loiner** » Fri 25 May, 2007 1:26 pm

14 years to build and shut down just like that. Enough to make your blood boil when you think of how useful some of these disused lines could be these days!! Still, gives us something to explore I guess!!

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Fri 25 May, 2007 1:30 pm

Even more so Loiner..It was only open 67yrs!!

IMOR · Post by **IMOR** » Fri 25 May, 2007 4:48 pm

.....and they think they've problems on Ilkley Moor.Will this become a World Heritage site in future? I'm serious.It should be part of any respectable garden design course.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Fri 25 May, 2007 4:58 pm

It really is bigger when you look at it for real... I was last down there in January & the amount of earthworks since then is amazing

IMOR · Post by **IMOR** » Thu 31 May, 2007 2:10 pm

Where abouts is this site?It would be worth a trip over just to photograph it.What was the condition before the earthworks started,Bluebells etc?

Jailhouse John · Post by **Jailhouse John** » Fri 22 Jun, 2007 4:16 pm

This looks a lot like Sykes Wood in New Farnley