join me on my venture from the Infamous Queensbury Stations North Junction Towards Thornton Viaduct We also discover something non - railway But interesting on the way !
Another excellent video on a West Yokshire line . Thoroughly enjoyable. You're becoming quite the expert on railways in West Yorkshire .Well done .Looking forward to Part 2 .
Just a little history of the Keighley-Queensbury-Bradford Exchange Line closed to passengers 23-5-1955 and to freight in 1965 the lines income was badly hit after WW2 by stiff Bus competition and the rise of car ownership plus BR needed to spend a fortune on track and infrastructure as the line was very heavily used in WW2.
@@exploringthepastandthepres9793 Closing" Uneconomic" Railway Lines accelerated from 1950 as the Government Running costs were stupendous after Nationalisation as Labour borrowed a fortune from the USA as the UK was nearly bankrupt after WW2 in fact the National Debt is today £3.2 Trillion the Annual Interest Payment is currently £107 Billion.
This is quite nostalgic for me the Alpine route as it was known,great features,tunnels,embankment and bridges and the contractors who built it after they built the Settle - Carlisle line.
