As a general rule of thumb, you can say that everything that has been demolished or destroyed was better than whatever has replaced it.

@ProTroll_UK

2 ай бұрын

So every amazing building that stands now (be it old or new) is worst than what stood before it…. Ok 😂🤣🤦‍♂️

@railwaychristina3192

2 ай бұрын

Why was Bradford picked on for systematic destruction of magnificent structures and architecture, people lost their lives building? Why weren't the buildings listed?. Now we have to worry about noise and car pollution.

@railwaychristina3192

2 ай бұрын

Similar accident at Gare St Lazare

@Buttlands

2 ай бұрын

Let's hope all those ghastly new housing-estates that they keep putting up everywhere up and down the country end up the same way.

@Buttlands

2 ай бұрын

@@railwaychristina3192 Yes, I think I know that one, taken in 1895. That station also was cruelly demolished in '69 and replaced with a new modern one of unique hideousness. Talk about 'Build Back Better'!

My uncle jim work in the goods yard there in the 1950s he's in his nineties now but he can tell some real stories about his time there. Unfortunately he's in the best of health now but I'm going to share this with him thank you so much.

As a disabled pensioner, we're not 'too lazy', but cannot get that far under our own steam (pun intended). It's bad now with the Interchange shut, have a heck of a hike to catch a bus when you come in by train. Took me 40 minutes to get to Jacobs Well (stand E11) last time, zig zagging over Hall Ings.! I do remember, vaguely, Adolphus Street station building from when I was a kid, living in Bradford.

As a bit of a railway geek and being from Bradford i love your videos on the now long gone lines and stations.

Being from Bradford, and I’ve traveled up that road many a time, I never knew about this station. Thanks for the video, this series on Bradford is really interesting.

What a transformation - you could almost be on another planet - until you start digging and find the tell-tale signs of Bradford's railway heritage. Very interesting and enjoyable video.

The loco in the street was Ivatt "flying pig" 43072 happened on 15th November 1964 cut up on site ,great video as usual mate.

Darren, another great watch "As always." The photo fade at 4:11 has a interesting dog in the lower right corner. Your photo fade of the derailment reminds me of the photo of the Montparnasse Derailment "1896???" Thanks to Darren for helping to keep history alive.

Thank you for the walking tour this day. Always enjoy the tour and explaining what we are seeing. See you on the next, Darren. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

Been meaning to take a look at this for some time, but have unfortunately never gotten round to visiting it. Also been hearing about Adolphus Street for a while, but never realised where exactly it was, and its just mind-blowing seeing how much of the site has changed beyond recognition!

Another great video and hope you do many more of these old stations and railways. A shame they had to demolish the station, could have turned the station into a market rather then having new building for St James's Market.

Enjoyed this video. So very informative. Love the photo fades, makes the video interesting. Thanks for sharing Darren 👍🏻☀️😀

White hotel was The Great Northern . Great Tetleys hand pulled in the mud 70’s . Remember the derelict station well.

@davidjbatley

2 ай бұрын

I made a post earlier but I remember my uncle telling me that on an evening shift in the goods yard the landlord would line pints up on the wall for the lads working on shunting they would duly oblige and leave money for the next round. On one of those occasions when they returned to the yard they discovered a very old looking steam locomotive without a driver or fireman apparently no one knew anything about it and it was blocking the line, various lads tried to move it but gave up and went back to the pub whilst the station manager reported it. The next day it had gone but they never found out why or who drove it there. Drinking and shunting waggons don't think you could get away with it nowadays probably not then either but no one ever got sacked maybe lost an arm or leg.

Love the fade-ins; always wondered just exactly where the Adolphus St Station was after all the talk about building a new station on the site. Amazing to see the coal drops still there too. Love these videos unearthing the remains of the old railway infrastructure of which there was a lot in Bradford. 👍

Looking forward to more railway videos, especially from Dewsbury😍

Ein schönes Video. Voller Erinnerungen. Auch der Unfall war ja schlimm. Wer es mit erleben musste vergisst das nicht. Thank you. Darren 👋🏻👋🏻👍🏻

There are a lot of old abandoned railway lines and infrastructure left all around West Yorkshire. In the village of Ryhill to the south of Wakefield is the remnants of a station where the platforms can be seen along with the original railway bridge (now filled in) that went under Station Road. The line itself is a footpath and you can follow it along and still find some remnants of an old railway bridge and across the other side an intact railway bridge that the path goes under. Fascinating to see old images of what was there before in towns, villages and cities you know.

Yes, I did enjoy that video, Darren, really fascinating. To think that it lasted till the early 70s, and I love your photofades

Fuuny that you say it was too far out of the city centre, when you consider that the clowns now in charge want to move it back out that way by St James Market.

Adolphus Street became a goods station when the Great Northern was allowed to use Exchange Station.

I wish we could go back to the past to see these old railway's. But at least you bring them to life again with your amazing videos. 👍

Thank you another great film uncovering old Bradford. My father used to talk of Adolphus Street. Now I know where it was. I remember visiting the old St James' Market, just off Leeds Road, my aunt worked in an office there. There was the abattoir there and I remember seeing the animals waiting to be killed. Not entirely pleasant!

@richardburton2726

2 ай бұрын

I went for a job interview at the abattoir...1981... never got it...🤜🤛

It’d be good to have maps as a reference too, interesting

@DeanJuvenal

2 ай бұрын

I agree that maps, particularly at the start of the video would enhance an otherwise v g film. Very much like your use of fades to show old pix. Reference library sources? Even tho I live in BD and know the City Centre well, I had to dig out my A- Z to get my bearings quite a lot.

All very fascinating, Darren. It's amazing how much the city/land scapes change, isn't it? If you're ever inclined, Dundee is another very interesting city when it comes to transport infrastructure, as there were two, long-gone railway termini, as well as two large docks in the area that now accommodates the end of the Tay Road Bridge and its approaches - and room for only a single, goods wagon connection line between them - running along the length of Dock Street. A third city terminus also existed a few streets inland - as well as several suburban stations and large goods yards - of which there are various remnants for those who care to look and have an eye for such things! The present station, which is also the newest, was at the end of a street and next to the Tay ferry terminal - all looking very, very different today - and it would be great to see some of your before and after fade-ins of these places... Plus, the city's fascinating transport museum has the sole remaining tramway depot and is currently raising the funds to move into it. And if you leave until after June 2, the new Leven branch isnt that far away either.

I'ma Bradford lad and really love your specific forensic look, eyes and very well done comment that fill me with hope! much respect my good man

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Thank you..fascinating. My dad and grandad worked in St James Market..it was opened in the 70s after the old St James Market was closed which was off Diamond Street below Dryden Street. I can remember the old market before it closed...Happy memories.

I think what you do Darren is absolutely fantastic work, I whish you could cover the Leeds to Wetherby and Wetherby to Harrogate lines as I don't think it has been covered 🤔 but it would be very interesting as all your videos are 👏😃 fantastic!!

I do love you covering these railways from a bygone era.

another brilliant one Darren,Bradford and Leeds always hold dear to me

Brilliant Sunday night viewing

Another very interesting video - thank you. Have you thought about including a map/aerial photo? It took me a while to work out exactly where you were

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

I thought I did at the end lol. Been a while since I made it

The best channel on KZread

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Haha thanks

Excellent very interesting really enjoying your videos.

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

2:22 Wow. Sometimes when I were a little lad I just didn't believe that "this was all fields when I was your age" or "there's the only bit left of the..." because adults knew how the world worked and my age group was the one making all the mistakes. Thought that they were just telling lies cos such planet-sized complete change was too much to accept. 2:22 How many Adolphus Street users would have correctly guessed a brambly thicket on a main road and roundabout ?

Good video and educationally helpful 👍👍👍

Fantastic video Darren, the fade ins just get better and better.

Thanks for providing some information about that famous crash photo, i never knew.

Hi D, Brilliant Video, i will have a look next time i past there👍 Bradford and so many West Yorkshire cities/towns were Industrial power houses!!! it all seemed to make sense, especially when you show the picture fades. Great stuff. Take care 😊.

Interesting stuff..... ......never heard of this before, although i did visit the old Bradford Hamerton Street DMU Depot on the oppisite side of the market before it closed in 1984.....

Nice one Darren. Hs3 to reinventing the old site .proves closing it down was a big mistake but some one knew what they were doing

great stuff, always fascinating and entertaining.

Lovely videos my freind love Bradford 👍

Fabulous as always!

Really interesting video - I drive up or down the Wakefield Road monthly and had no idea..! Thanks.

A man used to park his car and sat in it right where the locomotive came through the wall. A workmate who retired and one I worked with were in a nearby cafe and heard the crash, they went out to see what happened, luckily that day the car was not there, the man who retired, who I only met a couple of times, carried a camera and took photos right after it happened, I have a photo of the engine still in steam taken just after the accident. It was left in the depot when he retired as it is a bit out of focus, he kept the other photos he took, probably now lost for ever.

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

What a story. Loved to have seen it

Really interesting subject Darren, I enjoyed the video. Great research on the points of interest too. Cheers!

Very interesting thank you for sharing

Awesome videos from Bradford railway history darren keep up the great work 💯👍

Excellent content as always Darren , have to love the photo fades the really help to bring the vids to life .

thankfully someone had the foresight to take some pics of how things once was, cracking vid daz keep em coming

Hi you should do Middlesbrough exchange sq … the a66 ruined what was there ….

Brilliant video! It hasn't half changed!

Didn’t know about the coal drops, very interesting 😊

Fascinating as usual Darren. Cheers.

Looking forward 2 the next 1.Great video. Thanks Darren.

Another amazing video Darren, would like to see you cover Mexborough/Swinton old railways someday :)

What a change!

The one I’ve been waiting for ❤

Another brilliant video mate

Thanks for the video ...Brilliant

Another awesome video!

Another great video, never knew about the station, though U delivered laundry to St James market in late 70s

Great and informative Darren, what a difference now. I liked it as it was, my Great Uncle Walter would be lost if he was there now 😮. Loved the fade ins.😎

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Another great video Darren - my Sunday night treat watching your interesting research! Fab! ❤

That was some crash . Great video Darren. Love the fade in and fade out photos. Still makes you a bit sad at all those lost railways and stations. Thanks for taking us down memory lane again.

Consistently good cheers Darren

Another excellent video 😊😊

Pity poor Bradford.

Incredible research on this one, brilliant video😊

Well, you have done it again, absolutely fascinating. It is amazing what is hiding in plane sight. They sure did obliterate the old station. These are the posts you excel at IMHO. Thank you.

Another informative video. You should be working for BBC Leeds! Thank you for your hard work.

Adolphus St. Station opened in 1854. The Kirkgate / Market St. Station had already been open 8 years earlier.

✔️ Cheers Darren

I looked a bit harder once, at a rounabout, through the undergrowth. Found a car that had careered off the roundabout into the undergrowth, surreal.

Great work as always Darren, growing up I missed out on many of the Bradford and Leeds stations but at least I'm old enough to remeber all the Pudsey loop stations and was able to travel along that line.

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

I've covered the Pudsey loop line in detail

@yorkie2789

2 ай бұрын

@@AdventureMe Yes obviously one of my favourites.

Nice piece of history thank you. But can you do a video on old Germany street . What it used to be like in 1967

If you go on nls scottish maps you will see station re named great northern goods station . fantastic thank u

Those coal drops resemble the ones you found on the old Humslet line at Knowsthorpe

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Yes they do

I love a nice mound

@douglasthompson296

2 ай бұрын

I bet you do

@ProTroll_UK

2 ай бұрын

@@douglasthompson296 I bet you prefer a bulge…..

@EgoShredder

2 ай бұрын

Some like a rail up their sidings, but I prefer a nice pair of train buffers myself. 🤭😅

@fromthetaperoom6325

2 ай бұрын

I agree with Darren too, nothing quite like finding and seeing a big mound.

Brilliant video Darren, did you call in the railway club higher up the road for a swift refreshment 🍺🍺

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately not. A full day of filming for me. Did have one at SunbridgeWells though.

Great video! I’ve seen the last photo of the crash before. I always been led to believe that that train was travelling tender first, was it?

Near, Neat, Neat👍👏👏😳😳🫡

The interchange wasnt on the site of the exchange, it is near it though. The exchange was where Bradford Crown Court now stands. There are still remnants of the walls and steps near the jobcentre

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

I know. I did a full video on it haha.

"when they were discussing HS3, which were never gonna happen anyway..." 👏👏👏👏👏

I came across some fantastic old coal drops? Near to the old Hunslet goods station off South Accomadation Road. Not marked up on an old map as coal drops or anything else for that matter but they are massive and have a really strange make up that I can’t make heads or tails of. I took some pictures of them. In woodland opp old Hunslet mills🤔

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I've done a video on those.

@nigelbarker4135

2 ай бұрын

Hi ya Darren 😀Thanks for the reply. I’ve watched all your videos and can’t honestly remember seeing those old coal drops? As they take some finding as they are in the middle of some woods with lots of evidence of rough sleepers 😱

@nigelbarker4135

2 ай бұрын

Yep I’ve just found the said blog on Hunslet swing bridge blog. You comprehensively covered it and I subconsciously followed your exact route. Superb blog fax👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🫡

Great vid would love iff you could do some in Liverpool iff you havent already 😃

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

I have done a few in Liverpool. But not railways yet. Just Mersey Tunnel and New Brighton Tower

@TheBlackwolf_Toy_photography

2 ай бұрын

@AdventureMe ok ill check them out

Apparently, the through station is still a go-ahead, but the fruit market and adolphus Street only thing I can't see how they will link up with the the existing line at the interchange

I still can’t make out exactly where Adulphus Street was. It must have been quite close to where I stay at the Leisure Exchange, but I can’t quite make out exactly where.

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Yeah just up the hill from there

👍👍

People in Bradford clearly haven't heard of rubbish bins!

Sadly nothing lasts fore ever

Is the new station they've been talking about going to be on the same site?

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Yes. The very one

Little known fact that the station master was sacked for being homosexual in 1906. He later was prosecuted for acts of homosexuality in 1909.

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

Different times eh

@douglasthompson296

2 ай бұрын

Pro Troll UK And your point is?

@douglasthompson296

2 ай бұрын

Whatever

@ProTroll_UK

2 ай бұрын

@@douglasthompson296 are you ok buddy? It’s simply a little known fact. Have I upset you, maybe you’re a homosexual with a chip on his shoulder?

@ProTroll_UK

2 ай бұрын

@@AdventureMe different times indeed. A different world!

I ride bike weather permitting

Brighouse, was the first Station for Bradford.

@AdventureMe

2 ай бұрын

That's not in the centre though. It's in the Bradford district. I'm referring to it's main city stations.

@andrewnelson4057

2 ай бұрын

@@AdventureMe That's why I said FOR, not in. Doesn't change the fact that Adolpus St. wasn't the first Station IN Bradford however....