SOUND ISSUES: I am aware of some sound issues in this video. I now know what was causing it, and it's all down to a wind reduction setting on the camera. This has since been amended on future videos. But as I film many weeks ahead, it has meant that it's taken a while for it to be brought to my attention. I find if you watch the video on any device other than a mobile phone, it sounds much better. Due to the audio processing limitations on a mobile phone.
Your videos are always so good and interesting, Darren. What a pity that so much of our marvellous railway structures have been allowed to rot. Thanks so much for all your efforts. More, please!
Enjoying the great vlogs. The G in Drighlington isn’t silent, it is pronounced. I used to live in the village and locals just call it Drig. Keep up the good work.
Great video. I am 60 years old and lived just down the road from Drighlington on Fieldhead estate and remember playing in this area as a kid with my mates. There was a farm track that ran under the railway line by the old brick works. I also remember watching the track being removed and taken away on old steam trains.
Brilliant vlog, one of the best. I cannot help but feel a little sad every time I see one and how much those lost lines would have been utilised today. Great work squire 👍
Even though I live far away, I enjoy your "digging up" old stuff and documenting the changes in the landscape. Greetings from Western North Carolina, USA
Great vlog. I live in Birkenshaw and the Railway Pub (10:32) in Drighlington is a stop off on my Sunday walk. There's a great overhead photo (pre drone days obs) on the wall showing the pub and the double track railway lines passing very close by.
"Hi Darren. Youve patched a few holes in this area form me. I work down Whithall Road Guildy. Ive learned an inner sence for Embankments. Tunnels bridgers finceing...haha. Thanks for doing this. Such a detailed job. I had a shock when found out few years ago, that there was railway up there. I now know the exact track line. Check it out tomorow. 10/10 again on effort & production. Love the old photo match ups. Your a Good host aswel mate! Cheers Grant. Keep safe and well : )
Great stuff again, I really look forward to your videos. As a Fieldhead resident and sometimes visitor to the Railway pub, this one was of particular interest. Brother in law lives to the edge of where Birkenshaw station and sidings were, so can't wait for your next blog. Thanks.
A wonderful adventure, with both superb filming and historic (& modern) commentary, all watched from my current home here in NZ (I'm Australian). Fascinating stories and images. Thanks for all your work.
Hi Darren, fascinating video, I sometimes wonder if dear Mr Beeching had kept his sticky mitts off the railway how it would have integrated in today world? just a thought! Steve
Another excellent video love watching your channel all the history and description of where you are and, what used to be there, all the places you have been, keep up the good work and stay safe, have you thought about covering the colliery line that ran from caphouse colliery to the Calder Grove and associated sidings at canal in Wakefield
@@AdventureMe One book I found interesting is the caphouse colliery a mineral line, produced by the caphouse colliery, it's certainly an interesting read, gives you plenty of history on the line
Hi another great video. This railway line and the Methley Joint Railway are featured in a book “The Great Northern Railway in West Yorkshire” by Martin Bairstow which has some of the photo’s you have shown.
Another excellent video. It's great that people like Darren are interested enough to research and construct these time capsules of information. Politicians were so short sighted in the fifties and sixties. No vision! They should have mothballed some of the track beds and perhaps today we would have seen some railways reopened to reduce road traffic and possibly pollution. I believe the minister of transport at the time of the Beeching Report had been the managing director of a construction company (Marples Ridgway} involved in road construction? Marples appointed Beeching. Beeching was given his remit by the then government. How did they get away with it?
@@AdventureMe you can get a job on calendar or local radio with pronunciation like that. Always remember debbie harry saying filley and wet herby. Good interesting content, keep it up. Heads up if you ever go to Slaithwaite.
The other side of the tunnel comes out of Dean woods left side of Asquith Ave, they built a tip at the end of the woods but up to 1985-90 you could enter the old tunnel which runs under the woods and was a air vent near the industrial est.
Nice - you might think about doing the Cleckheaton stations - the central station was stolen! And the Spen's station tunnel to the north of Cliff Lane has completely disappeared. Used to train spot there with the double-header at about 5.30 pm.
Another truly amazing video video. Your because a real pro :) As a subscriber I speak for everyone When I say your full of info and your videos always amaze us all. Keep up the amazing work. Give Barney a massive hug and kisses from all your fans... You need to give home over 2k kisses lol :)
The Crossing keepers house is still there on Fieldhead Lane where the line crossed. The trackbed is now the A650 and the house is on the left as you travel towards Morley just after Drighlington station site.
New to the channel and subscribed after watching 2 videos. Great content and well presented. I was born in Leeds in the '50s but haven't lived there since '78. Now on the west coast of Canada. I followed your trail in this video on OS Maps and Google. You can see the old gas lamp at D and A stn on Street View (where Birstall Lane meets Field Head Lane) if you look through the gap in the wall.
Just discovered your channel and am loving your videos. As a new resident of the area it's fascinating especially as you've looked at a lot of things that I was wondering about like historic bridges etc. I have always wondered if the vents along the A650 leading towards the Railway pub were relevant in some way - was there a cutting that was filled in that required ventilation?
I can 'just' remember Drighlington Station from my childhood days. I seem to remember a level crossing where Fieldhead Lane crossed the line near the Railway pub
I used to work on the trading estate where Gildersome Station used to be. The company was called Encon and was housed in a small warehouse unit but that was back in the early to mid 90s. I did live at Hadleys Court opposite Marshalls Steel Staircases and would often walk that way to work back then.
Also my family have lived just behind the Railway pub in Drighlington for hundreds of years. Infact im sure my great or great great grandad worked at the Station at some time. You can walk from Drighlington to Oakwall Hall and im sure that also follows a railway line as where it leads you to the back of the house there is an old railway line.
I remember that area well before the 650 was built and we used to horse ride the old railway route before bits got sold off way before the 650 and roundabout were built ..and the goods yard where the new building is I remember before the new building ..and I remember the bridge partly remaining b4 the roundabout that stands joining the A650 and Whitehall road ..
Know this area really well as live here. It’s very interesting finding out what use to be. However you could have walked down that road by the embankment. It’s a public footpath and not a private road. You get quite close to the embankment at one point where you can clearly see where the tracks use to be.
I used to live in drighlington and if I remember rightly, where the car park is opposite the railway inn there used to be riding stables and part of it used to contain the edge of the old station
As you travel towards Bradford on the A650 and past the location of Adwalton Station, just after the road junction where the Railway Pub is situated, about 100 yard on the right is a clearing in the undergrowth revealing blue brickwork of a derelict building, wonder if this was part of the goods shed mentioned in the video
I so enjoyed this. I was born in Drigh (1954), and we all used the station to pick up stuff (my uncle sent a hare(!) from Lincolnshire once, with just a label round its neck) , and to get to other places via bigger railway stations (Leeds?) I'm not a railway buff, so I can't comment on all the branch lines etc. But I have a (blurry) photo that my dad took of the last train to Drigh station. So sad that all that is gone now - in retrospect it was all too shortsighted, wasn't it?
Great stuff, can't wait for the Pudsey section, the line went past my primary school (St. Joseph's RC) and I can remember seeing steam trains (goods) passing by in the sixties.
Bridge Street in Morley has some remnants of the bridge remaining and if i remember correctly if you head towards Tingley you can see the elevated section of track bed. Not sure if that was the line in this video though. I live in Wigan now and there are loads of old railway lines in this area.
The tunnel was built by the cut and cover method with riveted girders supporting the road diagonally across the cross roads. When the first roundabout was built in about 1970 the parts under the new roads were demolishedbut the rest was infilled and covered over. When the present roundabout was built the remaining g part of the tunnel was exposed and demolished. I have a couple of photos of the work in progress showing g the girders as they were removed.
You start at Gildersome Rdbt (originally crossroad) where the local commercial truck repairers Crossroad Commercial’s started in the 50’s by Tex Smith and Fred Barbour,now situated on Nab Ln Birstall. I was speaking to Tex’s son recently,oh the stories about that guy!! You could write a book on his exploits.
Thanks, interesting as my sister-in-law lived in Drighlington. I have a photo of my and her children standing on a platform end, but I'm not sure if it's a goods platform or a station platform. It's dated August 1986.
Another fascinating glimpse into railway archaeology. Just tried to follow your latest "trail and trace" on Google maps (satellite view) but there's little evidence of the railway except where the A650 follows the original trackbed, if it's not brambles then it's roads and industrial units that hide the past.
Around 13:05 in you video, there looks to be at least one, maybe two concrete crossing gate posts where the railway and footpath that you are standing on, must have intersected back in the day.
great video. really interesting. why did they even shut the line? its a shame they didnt keep some of the buildings they looked quite grand. like that house next the goods shed in morley.
The A650 Used to go directly through the village of Drighlington. It used king street, Westgate Hill street, Bradford Road and Wakefield Road. The new A650 Was Built in the 1980’s/1990’s as the original road was extremely contested. I also went up the embankment that you can see on the Drighlington Bypas (the new A650) and I found a sleeper!
So the first roundabout you were at, is that where IKEA is near to ? To coin a phrase i remember most of that when it was mostly fields. And a lot of the road works when the built the m621 and my dad driving us down it just after it opened.
@@AdventureMe thank you , i spent my childhood in Batley and Armley in the late 60s and very late 70s, so im always interested in my home heritage. I visited a few years ago and that area around which is now IKEA is certainly different now. Thank you for your vids.
I can't believe that, that industrial units I've actually done deliveries in there, and I would never have guessed at one time that would've been an entrance to a railway tunnel
@@AdventureMe some of the other videos of disused railways around Yorkshire I recognize, I often wondered what lines they were, it's like you've put a name to a face,
The tunnel is still underneath the roundabout and was recently opened up and resealed when they redid the roundabout. The tunnel portal at the Morley side is visible just next to the Land Rover jaguar garage
Yes so I hear, someone said on the day I was there it was all filled in. I couldn't see the other portal due to the bush growth. I could just make out a wall in the trees.
Suprised you didn’t get a shot of the Gildersome railway bridge in the woods used to play in both woods when i was a kid and theirs remnants of the railway line in both. Theres also a little concrete bunker in what we called Dean Wood not sure if that had anything to do with the railway tbh.. as it ran underneath it. Yet its still interesting as to why its there.
I was hoping you'd discuss this topic. I lived in Birkenshaw in the early 1950s and we had a relative who lived in Drighlington so we went under the Whitehall Bridge whenever we visited them. The bridge carried an advert for Mintex (brake lining manufacturers, based in Cleckheaton). Adverts for Mintex were very common on bridges throughout the area. gyaanipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Mintex BBA in this link stands for "British Belting and Asbestos."
At 13:25 minutes in the video there is a fence in front of you and at the corner of the fence is an object , it's standing right outside the fence. Do you know what is ?
Yes, it's a crossing gate post. I know I missed it on the day. I'm normally quite good at seeing these as you will see from my other videos. But for some reason, passed me right by.
DARREN, BUT WHERE WERE THESE VIDEOS BEFORE TODAY 31 AUG 2020, THEY HAVE NEVER COME UP BEFORE ON YOU TUBE, SO WHY WERE THEY HIDDEN BY YOU, YO TUBE OR BOTH, I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THESE AFTER YOU MENTIONED THEM ON REBECCA AND PAULS OLD HALIFAX TO KEIGHLY LINE VIDEO.
I have no idea, I have been around and chugging away since January 2020. I certainly haven't hidden them, quite the opposite. I think UA-cam decides what it promotes and doesn't. Welcome aboard.
Nope I just looked on google earth the path doesn’t follow a railway line yet it does lead you to one at Oakwell Hall, not sure where that one comes from.
Check the video comments mate, all credits in there. I credit the sources of all pictures, and the person if the original source credits them too. I am happy to amend any credits at any time if they are incorrect.
@@AdventureMe I have just found this film. Some of the photos you have used are ones that I took to record the building of Drighlington bypass. I see you have credited the Drighlington Memories on facebook and thank you for that. Although I do not mind them being used, they are there for all to see, I think it would of been nice to of had a comment posted on our facebook to say you were making this and we could of possibly been able to give you some more information about this section of line as many locals knew it well and could of filled you in with details of what happened to the goods shed and the areas around the station yard you missed.
@@cedarcam Thanks for that. Yes I could probably ask for more info, but I kind of like to not know everything and explore. But I am learning along the way. In hindsight, I would contact the local groups and ask for info. Do you want me to add you to the credits of the pictures on the description? Thanks again. Darren
@@AdventureMe It is good to explore and discover things yes It came across well in the upload I found just before watching this as you found a small bridge at Pudsey was actually 3 arches long. If you could make a link to the facebook like you have for the equipment used it would help people find more photos. There is an album of railway photos and the ones where you found my photos in the opencast and bypass albums. As for a credit my name does not appear on there as the owner and I both upload the albums so we both appear as Drighlington Memories.
I know it's Drig, I grew up local. But that's local slang, to most outsiders it's said with a difference. I did debate with myself what to say at the time, but hey I can't be right all the time.
@@AdventureMe so you know its Drig but still call it something else.. its never known as Drillington at all, everyone that lives here calls it Drig. Otherwise good video though
@@SUPERLEEDSYRA I know, but most of my viewers are around the U.K. So I have to tailor it. I will make sure in future I get my Yorkshire slang back out.
@@AdventureMe that makes no sense what so ever. It's not a silent G, nobody calls it Drillington and people in other parts of the UK can pronounce a hard G, really cant understand your point at all to be honest. Its pronounced as its spelt..
SOUND ISSUES:
I am aware of some sound issues in this video. I now know what was causing it, and it's all down to a wind reduction setting on the camera. This has since been amended on future videos. But as I film many weeks ahead, it has meant that it's taken a while for it to be brought to my attention. I find if you watch the video on any device other than a mobile phone, it sounds much better. Due to the audio processing limitations on a mobile phone.
Another great video, thank you. Pity not much remains.
Your videos are always so good and interesting, Darren. What a pity that so much of our marvellous railway structures have been allowed to rot. Thanks so much for all your efforts. More, please!
Enjoying the great vlogs. The G in Drighlington isn’t silent, it is pronounced. I used to live in the village and locals just call it Drig. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the video, as always a walk back in time. Cheers Darren. 🏴🙂👍🇺🇸
Great video. I am 60 years old and lived just down the road from Drighlington on Fieldhead estate and remember playing in this area as a kid with my mates. There was a farm track that ran under the railway line by the old brick works. I also remember watching the track being removed and taken away on old steam trains.
It’s all changed beyond recognition now, spent the first years of my life in Drig, loving your vlogs 🥰😘
Brilliant vlog, one of the best. I cannot help but feel a little sad every time I see one and how much those lost lines would have been utilised today.
Great work squire 👍
Thank You. Yes it's one of my favourite railway vlogs so far.
Dankeschön Darren. War sehr schön
Even though I live far away, I enjoy your "digging up" old stuff and documenting the changes in the landscape. Greetings from Western North Carolina, USA
Thanks for watching! Greetings to North Carolina.
Great vlog. I live in Birkenshaw and the Railway Pub (10:32) in Drighlington is a stop off on my Sunday walk. There's a great overhead photo (pre drone days obs) on the wall showing the pub and the double track railway lines passing very close by.
Ahh nice one, I think I might have that one on my laptop.
"Hi Darren. Youve patched a few holes in this area form me. I work down Whithall Road Guildy. Ive learned an inner sence for Embankments. Tunnels bridgers finceing...haha.
Thanks for doing this. Such a detailed job.
I had a shock when found out few years ago, that there was railway up there. I now know the exact track line. Check it out tomorow. 10/10 again on effort & production. Love the old photo match ups. Your a Good host aswel mate!
Cheers Grant. Keep safe and well : )
Thanks mate. Much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed it, plenty more on my channel.
Thank you Darren another great video 👍
Very welcome
Great stuff again, I really look forward to your videos. As a Fieldhead resident and sometimes visitor to the Railway pub, this one was of particular interest. Brother in law lives to the edge of where Birkenshaw station and sidings were, so can't wait for your next blog. Thanks.
Many thanks! Will be out soon.
A wonderful adventure, with both superb filming and historic (& modern) commentary, all watched from my current home here in NZ (I'm Australian). Fascinating stories and images. Thanks for all your work.
Glad you enjoyed it. More to come. And hello to New Zealand and our friends down under.
Another great vlog, I am old enough to remember some of the pictures you showed. Brilliant research. Looking forward to the next one.
Many thanks!
Great blog. Very interesting about a, local area. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
Train Driver from churwell . Love local railway history. Know the area well. excellent videos and info. Love it but it's sad that it's all gone.
Thanks for watching. Yes I agree Robert, but it makes good videos for me. lol
That was a interesting video . Thanks for sharing it. Looking forward to the next one.
Glad you enjoyed it
I love watching your vids mate, I driven down these roads a few times and no way would have known any of this! Thanks again
My pleasure Scott. Glad you are enjoying them.
Hi Darren, fascinating video, I sometimes wonder if dear Mr Beeching had kept his sticky mitts off the railway how it would have integrated in today world? just a thought!
Steve
Good question! I bet they are regretting it all now.
Another excellent video love watching your channel all the history and description of where you are and, what used to be there, all the places you have been, keep up the good work and stay safe, have you thought about covering the colliery line that ran from caphouse colliery to the Calder Grove and associated sidings at canal in Wakefield
Thanks 👍 Yes, all the railways and collieries in Yorkshire is my aim eventually.
@@AdventureMe
One book I found interesting is the caphouse colliery a mineral line, produced by the caphouse colliery, it's certainly an interesting read, gives you plenty of history on the line
Hi another great video. This railway line and the Methley Joint Railway are featured in a book “The Great Northern Railway in West Yorkshire” by Martin Bairstow which has some of the photo’s you have shown.
Thanks for the info! I will check it out.
Very well researched and explained to us.
Thank You
Another great video. Thanks Darren.
Thanks 👍
Excellent video, although it's sad to see photos of the old stations being demolished.
Yes, true
Another excellent video. It's great that people like Darren are interested enough to research and construct these time capsules of information. Politicians were so short sighted in the fifties and sixties. No vision! They should have mothballed some of the track beds and perhaps today we would have seen some railways reopened to reduce road traffic and possibly pollution. I believe the minister of transport at the time of the Beeching Report had been the managing director of a construction company (Marples Ridgway} involved in road construction? Marples appointed Beeching. Beeching was given his remit by the then government. How did they get away with it?
Yes corruption at it's finest, i'm sure most things like that even now are done with benefits in mind for personal interest.
They can get away with anything once they get into office: that's the whole idea of politics: you give them the o.k. to rob you blind.
Now I know how to pronounce Drighlington, another good presentation Darren. Thank you.
Apparently it's not. I got shouted at today lol It's Drig lington
@@AdventureMe you can get a job on calendar or local radio with pronunciation like that. Always remember debbie harry saying filley and wet herby. Good interesting content, keep it up. Heads up if you ever go to Slaithwaite.
@@paulnutter1713 now I do know how to pronounce that. And Knowsthorpe.
Great vlog, some cracking old photos and a few signs of times past if you know where to look.
Thanks 👍
Used to work in gildersome had no clue of its past very interesting thanks Xx
You’re welcome 😊
The other side of the tunnel comes out of Dean woods left side of Asquith Ave, they built a tip at the end of the woods but up to 1985-90 you could enter the old tunnel which runs under the woods and was a air vent near the industrial est.
Darren you are a genius! But oh, how sad all the infilling.
great work,thanks
Nice - you might think about doing the Cleckheaton stations - the central station was stolen! And the Spen's station tunnel to the north of Cliff Lane has completely disappeared. Used to train spot there with the double-header at about 5.30 pm.
Thanks Ian, yes I will get there eventually. Hopefully soon.
Another truly amazing video video.
Your because a real pro :)
As a subscriber I speak for everyone
When I say your full of info and your videos always amaze us all.
Keep up the amazing work.
Give Barney a massive hug and kisses from all your fans...
You need to give home over 2k kisses lol :)
Thanks for that!
Another excellent and informative video, keep going
Many thanks!
The Crossing keepers house is still there on Fieldhead Lane where the line crossed. The trackbed is now the A650 and the house is on the left as you travel towards Morley just after Drighlington station site.
New to the channel and subscribed after watching 2 videos. Great content and well presented. I was born in Leeds in the '50s but haven't lived there since '78. Now on the west coast of Canada. I followed your trail in this video on OS Maps and Google. You can see the old gas lamp at D and A stn on Street View (where Birstall Lane meets Field Head Lane) if you look through the gap in the wall.
Thanks and welcome. Greetings to Canada.
Great video as usual Darren 👍
Thanks 👍
Just discovered your channel and am loving your videos. As a new resident of the area it's fascinating especially as you've looked at a lot of things that I was wondering about like historic bridges etc. I have always wondered if the vents along the A650 leading towards the Railway pub were relevant in some way - was there a cutting that was filled in that required ventilation?
The vents are for the gasses on the landfill that filled in the railway cutting.
I can 'just' remember Drighlington Station from my childhood days. I seem to remember a level crossing where Fieldhead Lane crossed the line near the Railway pub
Yes I think there was, I never mentioned that in the video. Thanks.
Very fascinating
Thanks Ben
I used to work on the trading estate where Gildersome Station used to be. The company was called Encon and was housed in a small warehouse unit but that was back in the early to mid 90s. I did live at Hadleys Court opposite Marshalls Steel Staircases and would often walk that way to work back then.
Thanks Darran. Darren
Also my family have lived just behind the Railway pub in Drighlington for hundreds of years. Infact im sure my great or great great grandad worked at the Station at some time. You can walk from Drighlington to Oakwall Hall and im sure that also follows a railway line as where it leads you to the back of the house there is an old railway line.
Thanks for sharing
No problem they’re just thoughts that i get whilst watching haha ill look forward to the Oakwell video as i don’t know much about it.
Brilliant 😎
Thanks Sue.
AdventureMe I’m addicted now 😮
I remember that area well before the 650 was built and we used to horse ride the old railway route before bits got sold off way before the 650 and roundabout were built ..and the goods yard where the new building is I remember before the new building ..and I remember the bridge partly remaining b4 the roundabout that stands joining the A650 and Whitehall road ..
I vaguely remember it, I remember the 650 opening.
Know this area really well as live here. It’s very interesting finding out what use to be. However you could have walked down that road by the embankment. It’s a public footpath and not a private road. You get quite close to the embankment at one point where you can clearly see where the tracks use to be.
I used to live in drighlington and if I remember rightly, where the car park is opposite the railway inn there used to be riding stables and part of it used to contain the edge of the old station
Yes apparently so
As you travel towards Bradford on the A650 and past the location of Adwalton Station, just after the road junction where the Railway Pub is situated, about 100 yard on the right is a clearing in the undergrowth revealing blue brickwork of a derelict building, wonder if this was part of the goods shed mentioned in the video
I never saw that. I might have a look next time I'm around.
@@AdventureMe The loco shed was recently demolished and the foot print is where NG Baileys is
Well you learn something every day.
We all do. Thanks for watching.
I so enjoyed this. I was born in Drigh (1954), and we all used the station to pick up stuff (my uncle sent a hare(!) from Lincolnshire once, with just a label round its neck) , and to get to other places via bigger railway stations (Leeds?) I'm not a railway buff, so I can't comment on all the branch lines etc. But I have a (blurry) photo that my dad took of the last train to Drigh station. So sad that all that is gone now - in retrospect it was all too shortsighted, wasn't it?
It was, thank you for your memories.
Great stuff, can't wait for the Pudsey section, the line went past my primary school (St. Joseph's RC) and I can remember seeing steam trains (goods) passing by in the sixties.
Very cool! Won't be long until I get to Pudsey.
Bridge Street in Morley has some remnants of the bridge remaining and if i remember correctly if you head towards Tingley you can see the elevated section of track bed. Not sure if that was the line in this video though. I live in Wigan now and there are loads of old railway lines in this area.
It is the same line. The video previous to this one covers that section I think you mean.
At 13:02 you can spot next to the metal fence, an old concrete gate post
Yes, I missed that one. Too busy talking.
Another very interesting video. Strange how the past gets (almost) obliterated.
It does! Thanks.
The tunnel was built by the cut and cover method with riveted girders supporting the road diagonally across the cross roads. When the first roundabout was built in about 1970 the parts under the new roads were demolishedbut the rest was infilled and covered over. When the present roundabout was built the remaining g part of the tunnel was exposed and demolished. I have a couple of photos of the work in progress showing g the girders as they were removed.
You start at Gildersome Rdbt (originally crossroad) where the local commercial truck repairers Crossroad Commercial’s started in the 50’s by Tex Smith and Fred Barbour,now situated on Nab Ln Birstall. I was speaking to Tex’s son recently,oh the stories about that guy!! You could write a book on his exploits.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks, interesting as my sister-in-law lived in Drighlington. I have a photo of my and her children standing on a platform end, but I'm not sure if it's a goods platform or a station platform. It's dated August 1986.
Thanks for watching. I'd love to see the picture.
Thanks @@AdventureMe I'm not sure how to attach a picture though.
@@malcolmbrooks9527 You can send it to adventuremee@gmail.com or post it on my wall on facebook @adventuremeyt
Another fascinating glimpse into railway archaeology. Just tried to follow your latest "trail and trace" on Google maps (satellite view) but there's little evidence of the railway except where the A650 follows the original trackbed, if it's not brambles then it's roads and industrial units that hide the past.
Exactly, it's so hard. It's knowing where to look.
new to the channel, very interesting, great video
Thanks mate, plenty more to come.
Loving this series 👍, the past few weeks the embankment after driglington bridge is currently getting flattened. 😞.
Yes I saw the other day.
Around 13:05 in you video, there looks to be at least one, maybe two concrete crossing gate posts where the railway and footpath that you are standing on, must have intersected back in the day.
Yes, I missed those.
great video. really interesting. why did they even shut the line? its a shame they didnt keep some of the buildings they looked quite grand. like that house next the goods shed in morley.
Around the early 60s
The A650 Used to go directly through the village of Drighlington. It used king street, Westgate Hill street, Bradford Road and Wakefield Road. The new A650 Was Built in the 1980’s/1990’s as the original road was extremely contested. I also went up the embankment that you can see on the Drighlington Bypas (the new A650) and I found a sleeper!
Also lane that went under the railway can still be accessed Via The bypass or if you continue over the blue bridge.
Yeah I remember it, I was around the area then. I remember them opening the bypass.
Have you used the 'Side-By-Side' Map ? It shows the route perfectly running under the Roundabout.
Yes of course. I use them in most of my videos. I wouldn't cope without them.
So the first roundabout you were at, is that where IKEA is near to ? To coin a phrase i remember most of that when it was mostly fields. And a lot of the road works when the built the m621 and my dad driving us down it just after it opened.
Yes Paul, that's the Ikea roundabout, well the one the otherside of the motorway from it.
@@AdventureMe thank you , i spent my childhood in Batley and Armley in the late 60s and very late 70s, so im always interested in my home heritage. I visited a few years ago and that area around which is now IKEA is certainly different now. Thank you for your vids.
Thanks Paul. Yes it has changed a lot. I even I remember it before the retail park etc.
I am new to your channel. Really enjoyed watching. Very interesting. Well presented. I also watch Martins channel. Keep up the excellent programmes
Welcome aboard David. Thanks for your comments. More to come.
Good video, but disturbing images of you in heels doing a dance from Rocky Horror 😄
I can't believe that, that industrial units I've actually done deliveries in there, and I would never have guessed at one time that would've been an entrance to a railway tunnel
Just goes to show doesn't it.
@@AdventureMe some of the other videos of disused railways around Yorkshire I recognize, I often wondered what lines they were, it's like you've put a name to a face,
I moved to Leeds a few years ago, and play golf in Drighlington. Is the G in Drighlington, silent? Feel like I've been lied to haha!
No. It's me. I was wrongly informed. You pronounce the "G".
@@AdventureMe I actually think your way sounds more correct haha
Remember going from Gildersome station prewar on a Sunday School trip to Shipley Glen. If I remember right the last station master was called Brooke.
Thanks.
The tunnel is still underneath the roundabout and was recently opened up and resealed when they redid the roundabout. The tunnel portal at the Morley side is visible just next to the Land Rover jaguar garage
Yes so I hear, someone said on the day I was there it was all filled in. I couldn't see the other portal due to the bush growth. I could just make out a wall in the trees.
Suprised you didn’t get a shot of the Gildersome railway bridge in the woods used to play in both woods when i was a kid and theirs remnants of the railway line in both. Theres also a little concrete bunker in what we called Dean Wood not sure if that had anything to do with the railway tbh.. as it ran underneath it. Yet its still interesting as to why its there.
I'm not aware of another gildersome bridge. Where abouts is this?
AdventureMe you actually covered it in previous video. Ive not watched them in order! You did have a photo of it.
There’s an old railway tunnel in the woods just off Asquith avenue which must have fed into Gildersome station
No it didn't into this one. That's my latest video though.
@@AdventureMe I’ve just watched that. Great content. Interesting to watch. Only came across your channel this morning.
I was hoping you'd discuss this topic. I lived in Birkenshaw in the early 1950s and we had a relative who lived in Drighlington so we went under the Whitehall Bridge whenever we visited them.
The bridge carried an advert for Mintex (brake lining manufacturers, based in Cleckheaton). Adverts for Mintex were very common on bridges throughout the area.
gyaanipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Mintex BBA in this link stands for "British Belting and Asbestos."
The 'Goods-Shed' was exactly where the nursery is.
Ahh thank you.
ive been in yorkshire stoves yard countless times and never noticed that wall.been on the new a650 more times than i care to remember and never that
A lot of people have no clue it was a railway.
At 13:25 minutes in the video there is a fence in front of you and at the corner of the fence is an object , it's standing right outside the fence. Do you know what is ?
Yes, it's a crossing gate post. I know I missed it on the day. I'm normally quite good at seeing these as you will see from my other videos. But for some reason, passed me right by.
@@AdventureMe From Meriden, Kansas thank you. Started watching you a few weeks ago, Very enjoyable. I watch Martin Zero and the Whitewicks.
Thanks Jerry. Probably one of the first from the U.S.A. Greetings to Kansas.
I’d that another railway gate post at 13:20?
So it is, I never noticed that on the day. I'm sure I would have patted it and pointed it out if I did lol. Thanks
eeh i trained as a fireman at birkenshaw back in 1976
Maybe in the winter months that growth will die back and reveal the wall
One of the gildersome tunnel portal still exists
On a different line mate.
Yeah that's the big Gildersome Tunnel, this was a tiny one under the roundabout.
DARREN, BUT WHERE WERE THESE VIDEOS BEFORE TODAY 31 AUG 2020, THEY HAVE NEVER COME UP BEFORE ON YOU TUBE, SO WHY WERE THEY HIDDEN BY YOU, YO TUBE OR BOTH, I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THESE AFTER YOU MENTIONED THEM ON REBECCA AND PAULS OLD HALIFAX TO KEIGHLY LINE VIDEO.
I have no idea, I have been around and chugging away since January 2020. I certainly haven't hidden them, quite the opposite. I think UA-cam decides what it promotes and doesn't. Welcome aboard.
Nope I just looked on google earth the path doesn’t follow a railway line yet it does lead you to one at Oakwell Hall, not sure where that one comes from.
The oakwell line was a branch line from this one. I will be covering it soon.
@@AdventureMe new to the channel, has this video been released? (Oakwell hall),Great content 👍🏻
@@shanehornby1693 Yes. Lookup Leeds New Line
@@AdventureMe thanks I found them 👍🏻, I’m Addicted😂 i grew up and still live in this area 👌🏻
I grew up in Leeds, but haven't been back in 20 years. It seems to be the most altered city and area in UK; and not for the better.
It would have been good if you'd asked the people you ripped the photos off and given them a mention too.
Check the video comments mate, all credits in there. I credit the sources of all pictures, and the person if the original source credits them too. I am happy to amend any credits at any time if they are incorrect.
@@AdventureMe I have just found this film. Some of the photos you have used are ones that I took to record the building of Drighlington bypass. I see you have credited the Drighlington Memories on facebook and thank you for that. Although I do not mind them being used, they are there for all to see, I think it would of been nice to of had a comment posted on our facebook to say you were making this and we could of possibly been able to give you some more information about this section of line as many locals knew it well and could of filled you in with details of what happened to the goods shed and the areas around the station yard you missed.
@@cedarcam Thanks for that. Yes I could probably ask for more info, but I kind of like to not know everything and explore. But I am learning along the way. In hindsight, I would contact the local groups and ask for info.
Do you want me to add you to the credits of the pictures on the description?
Thanks again.
Darren
@@cedarcam Just out of interest, what areas of the station yard have I missed? Nothing too good I hope.
@@AdventureMe It is good to explore and discover things yes It came across well in the upload I found just before watching this as you found a small bridge at Pudsey was actually 3 arches long. If you could make a link to the facebook like you have for the equipment used it would help people find more photos. There is an album of railway photos and the ones where you found my photos in the opencast and bypass albums. As for a credit my name does not appear on there as the owner and I both upload the albums so we both appear as Drighlington Memories.
And if this destruction is progress then im a luddite
May the perpetrators rot in hell
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Pisses me off the way you say Drighlington
It's Drighlington, not Drillington.
I know it's Drig, I grew up local. But that's local slang, to most outsiders it's said with a difference. I did debate with myself what to say at the time, but hey I can't be right all the time.
@@AdventureMe so you know its Drig but still call it something else.. its never known as Drillington at all, everyone that lives here calls it Drig. Otherwise good video though
@@SUPERLEEDSYRA I know, but most of my viewers are around the U.K. So I have to tailor it. I will make sure in future I get my Yorkshire slang back out.
@@AdventureMe that makes no sense what so ever. It's not a silent G, nobody calls it Drillington and people in other parts of the UK can pronounce a hard G, really cant understand your point at all to be honest. Its pronounced as its spelt..