any present day evidence of any train tracks at Crown Point area at all now?

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 04 May, 2012 9:53 pm

Can I just say thank you to everyone for starting and adding to this thread.I must have been about 16-17 years old when I worked forBR at Hunslet Lane in the staff office and forwarding office,some great photo links old and new to jog the old memory box.

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Fri 04 May, 2012 10:04 pm

anything to add dogduke from first hand experience? i'm in my 20's so this is all new to me. Phill/Jim/Anyone:-what bridge do you reckon this is showing:http://www.flickr.com/photos/thanoz/3757884284/

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 04 May, 2012 10:13 pm

pablo leeds wrote: anything to add dogduke from first hand experience? i'm in my 20's so this is all new to me. Phill/Jim/Anyone:-what bridge do you reckon this is showing:http://www.flickr.com/photos/thanoz/3757884284/ Beza Street bridgehttp://g.co/maps/qxcphPart of the old platform of Hunslet was still there a few years ago, I'll see if I can find a photo. http://farm1.staticflickr.com/67/223247 ... z.jpg?zz=1

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 04 May, 2012 10:46 pm

A little snippet for 'PABLO'Leeds Hunslet Lane Goods Station.Hunslet Lane was the largest of the freight depots in Leeds.Full wagon load traffic was dealt with mainly in the open,man handling/craninga wide variety of freight from rail wagon to road transport.Warehouse accommodation was provided for companies who wished to storeitems.The warehouse dealt with what was referred to as ‘sundries or smalls’,i.e. items not requiringthe sole use of a railway wagon..All these small items were barrowed betweeen rail wagon and road lorry.Incoming wagons were shunted into the shed and items sorted into delivery rounds,the empty wagons would then form the evening departures.The destination of each wagon in the shed was allocated to roughly follow the trunk trainsformation to reduce shunting moves in the main marshalling yards.There was a facility to shunt the wagons within the shed by use of capstans and traverser.There was a large fleet of road vehicles,mainly Scammel Scarab 3 wheel tractor unitswith 3 ton flat and covered trailers.These were used on mainly city rounds,rigid flat vehiclescovered the more rural rounds.They had I think 2 of the original Scammel Mechanical Horses tractor units,these were painted grey and used for internal movements only.Transit times for smalls traffic were not good,unless you had sufficient regular traffic for a particular destination it was sent on to another depot which did.It was labour intensive and never made a profit.This was the first privatisation in the rail arena(unless that was Sealink)This led to the formation of National Carriers Ltd and the National Freight Corporation.All a long long time ago now.

jim · Post by **jim** » Fri 04 May, 2012 10:46 pm

I think that Beza Street bridge is behind the camera in the photo that pablo leeds posted and the bridge seen is that at the junction of Moor Road/ Hillidge Road/Church Street. The water column in the photo is one that I worked on, and it was fed from a tank at the other side of Beza Street bridge. The direction of the curve of the tracks as seen preclude the view being the other way. EDIT:- And there is a comment to the photo from Tilly in his first S.L. incarnation!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 04 May, 2012 11:03 pm

I've just noticed this little footpath further down on Balm Roadhttp://g.co/maps/d462pAnyone knows where it goes? It appears to head for the mainline, but where it goes from there is a mystery, does it look like it goes under the line? It certainly doesn't look like it comes out of the other side. http://g.co/maps/r8cj6Edit...Found it, it goes round in a circle and comes out herehttp://g.co/maps/4pcwbThat looks a bit off the beaten track!!

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Fri 04 May, 2012 11:25 pm

is my pic looking from beza street with hillidge road bridge in view then? any sign of that platform today at all?

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Fri 04 May, 2012 11:28 pm

sounds like a hectic place dogduke. how many staff on site on a regular day doing all these activities?

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Sat 05 May, 2012 12:12 am

You may like to check this page out on Hunslet Rememberedhttp://hunslet.org/Hunslet_Moor_(1).html#hunslet stationcopy and paste the whole link into your browser

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 05 May, 2012 12:22 am

buffaloskinner wrote: You may like to check this page out on Hunslet Rememberedhttp://hunslet.org/Hunslet_Moor_(1).html#hunslet stationcopy and paste the whole link into your browser This TinyURL link should bring up the webpage. http://tinyurl.com/6um8xkgI hope you do not mind me adding this buffaloskinner.