Platform 1

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 8:37 am

That's just weird loco porn.Anyway, back to my canopy pillars.....

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 9:57 am

liits wrote: I hate to spoil the magic but it's from the website Ficticious Liveries. Have a look [although it takes an age to load] some of the photos are great. Well, now I can admit to having a feeling of doubt when I saw it, and the thought of April 1st plus 24 hours crossed my mind but, hmmm, interesting is perhaps the kindest thing one can say.

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 10:57 am

BLAKEY wrote: liits wrote: I hate to spoil the magic but it's from the website Ficticious Liveries. Have a look [although it takes an age to load] some of the photos are great. Well, now I can admit to having a feeling of doubt when I saw it, and the thought of April 1st plus 24 hours crossed my mind but, hmmm, interesting is perhaps the kindest thing one can say. This will get your juices flowing Blakeyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2LgpzeAexM

Post by **cnosni** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 1:04 pm

liits wrote: BLAKEY wrote: yorkiesknob wrote: Here you go BlakeyA close up shot and then a real close up.Why not make it three. Thanks a million for three magnificent pictures, and in a superb "meaningful" livery too - efficiency and pride ooze from the views. In a World nowadays besotted by zany "designer" colour schemes which mean nothing its refreshing to see such good taste again. I was so upset when the glorious dark blue and red (with gold fleetname) GNER livery was scuppered - but happy now to see the simple but very pleasing and dignified ECML silver grey colours - lets hope they are not superceded !! One in GNER dark blue / red for BLAKEY You have too much time on your hands

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 1:33 pm

Canopy Pillars!

jim · Post by **jim** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 2:22 pm

I'm working on it Cardiarms. Dating the pillars is a little more difficult than it appears. I will pay a visit to the station this afternoon to complete my studies. Watch this space.Jim.

jim · Post by **jim** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 5:56 pm

I am unable to date the pillars and their associated canopy exactly, but they certainly did not exist in c1905 (picture in "Steam in Airedale", Donald Binns, 1984) or in 1910 (OS 40' to 1" map in my possession). At that time there was a station roof consisting of three wooden barn-like bays and no canopies.There is another picture in the above book, dated 30 June, 1933. This shows Platforms 3/4 with the northernmost of the previous wooden roof sections and a canopy identical in construction with that provided on Platforms 5/6, which is the canopy and pillars Cardiarms asks about. Platform 6 of that period is the platform now existing as Platform 1. In 1910, according to the large scale map I refer to above, the platforms were numbered in the reverse order to what was in later use from 1938 to 1967/8, so Platform 1 has regained its old number (as have Platforms 11 and 12 of the current station).Although the terminal end of the canopy has gone to later rebuilding work, I am absolutely certain that the remaining pillars and canopy date from at least as far back as 1938, and in view of the condition of the structure seen on Platforms 3/4, to some earlier date not preceding 1921 (1-2500 map in oldmaps of the site).To support this claim, the roof lines and formation of both the canopies can clearly be seen in aerial views contained in "Leeds Termini", Pixton and Hooper, 1998, and the Platform 5/6 one in current googlemaps views. A further connection is to be found in the unmistakable close proximity of the two final pillars of the canopy at its west end. They are very recognisable in countless pictures of that site to be found in railway publications - and would be lucky not to fall foul of 'elf and safety questions were they to be proposed today due to their limited clearances.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 6:10 pm

Thanks - from their appearance my uneducated eye would have guessed much earlier than that.Unusually there are few pics of city station on leodis.http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... 929_172716

jim · Post by **jim** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 6:40 pm

It is always possible that the pillars were recycled second hand from elsewhere, but that would be speculation without documentary evidence. The roof support girders are certainly not cast iron though.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 03 Apr, 2012 8:34 pm

My thoughts too.