Nice one Andy, another great video. I look forward to your video on the Windhill Shipley Branch. I hope you have access to some old timetables again as there is very little on the internet regarding actual usage of the line and details of train numbers/destinations etc. Cheers
It used to be a good night out now all pubs and night clubs shut, wonder why? Like a ghost town on an evening now with a few zombies walking around, your photos dont match your commentary.
Steelers, Thornton in the 80`s. I`m not even from Bradford. Palm Cove, the Jamaican club in Girlington, forgotten the street name. Sugar Cane at Whetley junction just to name a few. Then there`s the underground places like Ali`s Mill ,Preston street/ Thornton Road for all nighters. The infamous but obviously not that infamous 1 in 12 club just off Sunbridge road. Queens Hall held special events and bands once upon a time in town.
How very, very sad. The early 1960s. What a terrible time to be living if one was aware and sensitive to all that was beautiful. Unfortunately, most would say progress is progress! Away with the past and forward to the space age. Most of England's cities were wrecked. Not by WW2 bombing, but by the modernist.
Fantastic, as young lad my friends and I would walk round the old track way and imagine what it uses to be like. My Gran lived on Bridge gate way snd you can still see parts of the infrastructure on park rd and the bank.
@@Limitedclearance I removed the word m 0 s q u e. As in what replaced a lot of the buildings shown in the overhead shot. RU-vid auto censorship is becoming really extreme.
Buildings burning at the top of town seemed to be quite a frequent thing. 100% done on purpose. Just think that entire area was still Bradford centre. From up Manchester Road to up Manningham Lane, Bradford centre was massive. Now reduced in size and next year will be reduced even further when the final nail is put in to the top of town coffin. Look at that over head view of the area. Majority of the buildings demolished.
@b00ts4ndc4ts it's was the great northern line, I've done a video on it titled the Shipley Windhill Line. Here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Er6YhkL4iYc.htmlsi=J-kTcYYbue0HRIUc
Not a chance of it ever happening - its a railway remember . If it was a ring road or a bypass, it would have been built 40 - 50 years ago. This country is so Anti rail.
The British governments are fond of closing railway stations that are in the centre of towns/cities. They pinch the railway land for offices / car parks / supermarkets / roads, etc etc. Its criminal, but they always get away with it.
They could do a train tunnel from somewhere off the main line around Layton right through and a station (low level) where Central was and come out on the old track bed towards South Station
I still cant understand why this station was closed. Im sure today it would be more convenient than north station. They should relocate the south station closer to the centre i think
Before the Beeching pruning of the railway, there was a regular service between Bradford Forster Square and Morcambe, via Settle Junction, Wennington Junction and Lancaster Green Ayre. Morcambe was known locally as Bradford on Sea. Seems Beeching had a thing about closing down Midland Railway main lines. Pruning the lines linking to and from the Settle & Carlisle was a deliberate ploy to shut that line. The Somerset & Dorset was another Midland line that was axed. The Waverley Route, the Stainmore Route were other cross country routes which were axed. Short sighted transport policy, but Marples had road transport interests.
Great video ! I have seen many photos of Great Northern (LNER) locos on the line between Keighley and Halifax, but none of any Midland types. I wonder if Midland locos worked any regular freight or passenger trains over to Queensbury and Halifax ?
I lived opposite the area of the old Greenfield stadium in the mid 80’s-90’s. Sadly the whole area had already been redeveloped for warehouses by the time I lived there. I was aware there had been a stadium there in the past, and Thankyou for providing more info. Great video! Keep up the great work 👍
A similar project has now been completed to join the East London and disused Broad Street lines at Shoreditch. Passenger numbers have exceeded all expectations.
Tell us about the GN station at Shipley - its a scrapyard now - see the remains of it every time I travel the Aire Valley line - I think it climbed steeply uphill towards Bradford but know nothing about it or its services - one for another video perhaps ?
As a boy I walked past these and was fascinated by the heavy industrial nature of valley road, with the billowing power station & adjacent large railway yard, plus of course the local woollen & worsted mills. It was quite a sight !
With Southeastern aiming to introduce new trains for step free access, some of the redundant Electrostars can be cascaded to West Yorkshire to replace the obsolete diesels, with the accelerated rollout of electrification south of Bradford.
The Shipley Depot will become even more important as the Wharfedale and Airedale heavy rail metro is expanded to the whole of West Yorkshire with the proposed through line between Shipley, Halifax and Huddersfield via Bradford.
My memory of the Father Christmas parade was of it starting at Lister Park, thr Frizinghall entrance. But it was agreed, Busby's Father Christmas was the real one, the Father Christmas at Brown Muffs was an imitation.
