Great to see how this is turning out in the final videos. Thanks for the invite to tag along and help 👍 Looking forward to the good stuff still to come in the rest of the series

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy. And thanks for the company. See you on the next ones.

This is the beginning of a fascinating series, I didn’t want this episode to end.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rachel

@leopoldbluesky

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

Once again Darren you've bought history back to life.... Top job once again bud

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks luke

The "railway related" red brick buildings at 8.39 minutes were connected to and built by the Clayton Fireclay Brickworks . Founded by Mr Julius Whitehead in 1880 the works closed in 1970. The works buildings have long gone but the elaborate chimney, showing examples of the products made in the works can still be seen. The company produced sanitary wear, glazed bricks and chimney pots.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

I’m from Queensbury and have always had an interest in the old station and what it used to be like… very interesting video, and it’s great to see some photos of the place I didn’t even know existed! If you go on Carter Lane you can get a good view overlooking the old triangle, there is a classic photo of the station taken from here, and if you look closely you can still see the red and white chimney to orientate yourself. Look forward to seeing part 2!

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Simon

Thank you for the impressive tour into the past. A very good reconstruction of the original station and surroundings. See you on the next. Cheers Darren! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂👍🇺🇸

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Martin

Looks quite spooky knowing once there were busy railway lines there, now it's dead and quiet lol

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

It sure does

Your like a super Sherlock when it comes to railways! I'm No anorak but I do love finding out about these lost railway sites with you Another cracking video Darren.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks.

Great find and wonderful photo overlays. Looking forward to seeing more.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

Thanks to AdventureMe for another fine watch, hi Andy. Darren, you are the King of Photo Fades--bar none, they really help fill the gaps in the story. Nature sure takes over quick, amazing. This looks like it will be a great series to watch. Thanks again.......

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike. More stuff to come on this.

@kingboy76

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, pleased to hear you're enjoying it, was great fun to help out on these videos

@jetsons101

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingboy76 Someday I'll also be there..... "I hope."

It's amazing just how different somewhere can become and actually in a relatively short time. Literally, if you didn't know that there was a railway there then you would never know. Most of what you have shown (apart from the bridge and you would question wtf is a bridge doing here) just wouldn't give any clue as to magnitiude of what was once there. Just amazing. Love it, looking forward to the next one.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's what I love about these explores.

@leopoldbluesky

2 жыл бұрын

The Forest of Dean is very much like that, all the old coalmines and railway stations disappeared and went back to nature like they were never there, apart from the odd artifact.

@leopoldbluesky

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe You sir, have one of the best channels on the interwebs!

Superb start. Looking forward to the rest of the series. I remember in the 1980s travelling from Keighley to Halifax by bus through the "no man's land" that was once busy with railways and wished I had been old enough to experience it by train.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks William

watched your videos for a while now. love that you are doing one of the triangle , i remember the viaduct just after it being demolished and walking through the clayton tunnel to find it blocked off at the other end around 97

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Shame it got demolished.

Really enjoyed this video. Can't wait for part 2.... Excellent as always 👌 👏

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Craig

Not withstanding where roads/motorways were built, but the wholesale demolishing of so many railways in the UK was not only a travesty, it was a truly grave mistake.

This is going to be an amazing series! You would just think it has always looked liked what it does now! Amazing!

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I know. Totally different

Brilliant, those pictures really help get some idea what was there! And what was there was unbelievable! Excellent work D!! 👏

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks grant

It's amazing that the bridge survives even after the cutting was infilled.

I live 10 minutes away from here. Never knew it was this interesting....you look at how the land is nowadays and its hard to visualise another time and appearance ....Good work

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

Fab explore. Fade in fade out photos brilliant. Excellent camera work. You are an outstanding film and documentary maker. Thank you.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Thanks again for all your hard work Darren. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series as the Queensbury lines are one of my favourite lost railways.

love your picture fades, great idea.

Don’t stop there keep going just love it

Fascinating and so, so interesting as always! A suggestion for an explore - Culcheth linear Park which used to be the Lowton to Manchester line of the local railway.

Loved it. Brilliant video. Well done!!

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

It never ceases to amaze (and sadden) me to realise just how much time and effort they put into making sure that once these lines closed, they stayed closed for good. I bet you're right and most of the brick and stone (if not the iron and steel) is still on site somewhere, buried under hundreds of tons of landfill. What a waste. And worst of all, the Queensbury Tunnel saga proves they've learned absolutely nothing.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

So true Richard

Great video can’t wait for part 2. Loved seeing the old pictures and what it once looked like.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alan

Been waiting for this for ages. Was even going to suggest it as something interesting to cover, only 30secs in but hope whole series is going to be great and some mention of attempts to reopen the full line and tunnels as a walking/cycling route

great work as always

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Nice work as always,thanks lad

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Simon

Great video, loved watching.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

First learnt about “The Queensbury Lines” in 1993 when on the train home from work. Over the mountain to Queensbury( A Steam days publication). I was into disused tunnels and of course i was hooked from then on. First visited Queensbury tunnel and station site in 2000. Saw the flooded end and this end and nearly all the other tunnels & viaducts. What a lovely line it was. Some good books on it thru Willowherb publishing with amazing pictures if the lines in decline. Hope Queensbury tunnel gets re opened

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alan. Yes a very interesting line

Really enjoyed this. Cheers.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks eddy

Absolutely love this channel. The remains of past buildings and attractions really interest me! Great narration and great content 👍

@AdventureMe

7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

another belter , thanks darren

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tracy

Great job!! Love your photo fades spot on.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Philip

Another fantastic video and this lines have gone but never forgotten

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stephen

Brilliant work, well done 👏

@AdventureMe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

great video Darren

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

Another fascinating video 👍

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

Great video Darren looking forward to part 2

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Raymond

Really enjoyed this. Really interesting stuff. Thanks Darren

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard

Great video Darren, as always your fades are fantastic. Keep them coming.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Excellent start to a great series Darren, the large abutments for both extreme sides of the viaduct are still there.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Arthur. Which viaduct do you mean? The one in the triangle?

Another brilliant video of the lost railways of West Yorkshire. I love your photo fades great stuff.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Clive

What an interesting vlog. The photo overlay fades bring it all back to life. Wonderful. Thank you and I look forward to seeing the other vlogs in this series.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Harry. More to come

Brilliant 🤩

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve

Excellent commentary and visuals. Enjoyed greatly and looking forward to further installments. Many thanks.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris. More incoming

Awesome

I've often had a fascination with this line. Great choice for an episode! Can't wait for the next!

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Same here! Thanks mate, coming soon.

Another great video .many thanks 👍

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

Very interesting. Looking forward to part 2

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy. Coming soon

this should be a real good one darren

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris

A fascinating look at a bygone time. A little bit sad to think of all the activity that once went on there has been largely forgotten. This series is definitely being added to the "to visit" list. The overlays are brilliant, as always. Thanks for another great series.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stephen

The master of photo fade, excellent video Darren really enjoyed this one

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pete

Great video Darren, I notice absolutely every unusual stonework/brickwork etc whilst out and about with the family. Particular favourite of mine is lemonroyd lock. I think that was the first video I saw of yours as I were investigating the flood that happened on the coal mine. Also someone has been down to the old lock very recently and cut back all the bushes etc to save it from nature taking over which is fantastic. Keep up the good work mate.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter. Glad to hear they are keeping up with it.

That's a wonderful video, always interests me what's still there after so many years

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Robert

Absolutely fascinating Darren. I drove through Denholme at the weekend and a viaduct caught my eye. Thanks for the education

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks John. That one is coming soon

Another interesting video, you follow a very diverse trail and you cover a lot of subjects credit to you

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Woow, i really enjoy the "Now & Then" line up images, when you set them both in relative to the other image. It´s not possible to imagine what those sites looked like for 70-100 years ago as a viewer without the photos. Nice 👍👍👍👍

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Its what I always do in the videos. Love doing the fades.

Great start to what looks like is going to be a fantastic series. I'm just sorry I couldn't have joined you both on this new adventure but I was away at the time. looking forward to the next one

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pete. Maybe next time

another great vid keep em coming

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

Brilliant was so excited to watch this. The Red house & the chimney further down in the back ground was part of the old fire clay brick works the owner of the brick works built his house in red brick .Cant wait for part 2 & 3 . Hope you got the big tunnel in with the memorials of the men who worked building the tunnel .

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's part 2

That's fascinating! It's a bit like ambergate, but a pre-beeching closure! For something that ran between such important towns! I'll have to look up the history!

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael

Excellent ...changed even after 30 years ..last time i went near .

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks John

Absolutely amazing this is I know it well use to live in Queensbury always wanted to go in Queensbury tunnel

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mathew

Darren your vlogs just get better and better your attention to detail coupled with your photo overlays and history make for great viewing hats off to you mate for making these great videos.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Scott.

Hi Darren! Been offline a while so great to see you are covering a line that is most dear to me, albeit the thing was long gone before I was even born! 😂 I was lucky enough to live in Oakworth as an infant so the ‘mysterious’ line that ran off the KWVR and then disappeared was of great interest. My dad worked in Bradford but often took the back way which involved taking roads from which you could still see the abandoned bridges etc of this line for part of the way. 🤓 Solid detective work by you and Andy, and I’d say you are probably spot on about the platform 🤔 So hard to believe there was a load of infrastructure there. Funnily enough I was thinking of Shipley, though when I was a lad there was actually only one set of platforms, so if you were going to Leeds the train would stop and have to be reversed before continuing! 🤣😂😅 It reminds me of somewhere like Bulwell, where there was once a complex of primarily coal carrying railways all interchanging, yet now there is nothing much to mention left (albeit the local passenger line still exists just ‘up the road’) to to indicate the plethora of rails that once de ends upon it! 🤷🏻‍♂️ Cheers mate,going to dive into the next episode now! 😉👍🍀🍻

Great video. Im from Queensbury, and used to play down here as a kid.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Clinton

Do love these historical video vlogs. I also love exploring old railways. I was a railway signalman from 1990 to 2011 and worked several signal boxes that have now vanished. This is well researched and produced Darren so well done. Slowly getting through them all lol😉

@AdventureMe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Amazing Darren! I've been visiting this station for about 35 years off and on and there have been massive changes in that time. My late Mum used this station to get to school in Bingley, walking to Queensbury from Shelf and her grandparents lived near the viaduct in Cullingworth. I clearly remember Cullingworth station. How I wish someone had invented a time machine! Looking forward to the next episode.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Deborah

brilliant daz

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

Wow Didn’t want it to end. Unbelievable it was there, lived in Queensbury never knew it was there, wish we had learnt about this in school so near! Can’t wait for the next one Thank you

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Deborah

"barking up the wrong tree" when he was stood near trees lol

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I know. I noticed that when editing.

Very interesting vid Darren . Bewildering the way the evidence of the line has just be obliterated . Seems very strange as it appears to be just unused land . Not sure why they would have gone to the trouble of filling in . Great to see you back on the disused railways hunt and the great picture fades . Looking forward to the next installment .

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lewis. Yeah I don't know why it was filled in.

Lovely backdrop. Awesome place. 😍

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew

@AndrewG1989

2 жыл бұрын

😉

Love these. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you. I loved exploring the National Garden Festival site here in Stoke On Trent back from 1986. Still lots to be seen and good landmarks. 👍

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that now the retail park?

@brettwainwright512

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe Yes it is. Known as the 'Festival Park' . Still plenty to explore after all this time.

Excellent as always Darren. The t.v is staying off. This is far more entertaining/interesting.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks gazza

Followed your progress from the early days of the Leeds lines and I've been waiting for this as I live at the top of the hill. Another great video, you're getting pretty good at this you tube lark 😉

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. I hope so by now.

@looneytune6955

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe Haha no mate you're genuinely good at this stuff. Theres a lot of effort goes into these.videos, you deserve the growing list of subscribers

Around five years ago I was a courier in this area on a Sunday. I used to spend my lunchtimes exploring this fascinating site, and have many books about Queensbury. The combination of the unusual triangular shape of the site, together with the infilling makes it very difficult to orientate yourself on site. A fascinating part one, I look forward to future episodes.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard. Yeah very disorientated

Great video. I have just walked down past the station into Thornton over the viaduct. Nice walk but coming back uphill on Station Road back into Queensbury was a struggle. Like you say - that had probably something to do with the stations demise although I can imagine a fleet of horse and carts operating on that road. Looking forward to part 2.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

You will see me suffering the hill in the next episode

Love your photo fades

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ian. Lots in all my videos

Great vid. Saw some photos that someone who managed to get into Clayton tunnel had taken. Most of the inside is still in really good condition, there was an abandoned cannabis grow farm deep in there too.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brendan. Yeah I saw those.

Willow hall farm just up from the station was my grandparents house for years. I lived farm above and explored the station many a time as a child.. over 40 yrs ago

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Julie. Bet that was a fun playground

Thanks for the video. I've had a photo of this junction on my phone for age's, a really interesting place

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Graham

@grahampartridge9335

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe can i ask if you know anything about the rope incline railway that ran down behind the south signal box on that site ?

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

@@grahampartridge9335 Part 2 should explain it

Great video

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

Very interesting, keep up the good work 👍🏻

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

@qbrhino8875

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe no problem mate - I use the trail for my running and it does fascinate me. Excited for part 2 👍🏻

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

@@qbrhino8875 Me and running. Two things that don't go together lol

Hi Darren, great episode. That first Station Rd/lane is badly in need of pot hole repairs🤔 unless its unadopted, also goes to show on the b/w image of that footbridge and booking hall? that the peas hooter/window smashes had already been there. Vandalism strikes again in the 1950's 😈 Hope the Mersey Ferry gig went well and Gary B got the upper hand on the audience. Cheers DougT in Mancs

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Doug. Yeah it's in a state. The gig went really well.

Oi! don't stop now, I was just settled down nicely there!!!! Am I being a bit dense in asking why all that lot was there when it appears to be in the middle of nowhere?? I'll just sit here twiddling my thumbs andcwait for Pt. 2👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

It was just a busy junction that was near Queensbury so they thought to add a station too I think.

Nice video. I wandered around there a few years back - it was wet and very cold. I managed the slope down to the Clayton tunnel portal - just wear thick gloves and lots of padding... Solid steel door with combination lock at boggy bottom - oh and danger warning sign thrown down the slope. The bridge is a bit weird, I can only think that the pipe going over it prevented easy removal for scrap. I read somewhere that the Clayton cutting was infilled without permission 🤷‍♂️

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Most probably. I bet they used it as a dump.

Hi guys that was very interesting I was a fireman on the railway, Market Harborough, it will be interesting to see your next video.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ronald

Thank you, the work you do is important, you should be on T.V. , very entertaining, informative and enjoyable

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

The tunnel entrance through to Clayton must have been filled in at some time since the 90s. As kids we would walk into the tunnel, you could go around 200 feet, however, the track bed was pretty much flat.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Halfway up Station Road (not Lane) can clearly be seen the remains of the buttresses for a bridge that would have carried a narrow-gauge line up the steep hillside towards the Scarlet Heights area of Queensbury. This was to carry the coal that had been mined by the Foster family from their small pits down in the triangle area up to the famous Black Dyke Mill above.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I filmed that for a future video

@FeoragForsyth

2 жыл бұрын

Is that the cable-hauled line that can be seen going under the tracks in one of the early photos in the video?

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

@@FeoragForsyth Yes that's correct

My lad lives in Queensbury, looking forward to this one when I eventually get home from work 🙌

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Enjoy

@LancashireLarks

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe Cracking video as usual. Sent the link to mi lad as well. Love those photo fades, really helps my imagination how it was. Looking forward to part 2

What an amazing site!!! Your photo fades really show it off to the maximum. I bet without doing any research, if you were through the area (not that people would be honest) they just wouldn't realise that any of this was here and that there was a big railway junction here. It amazes me how much they have infilled this site as well. I can understand demolishing the buildings and doing some moving of earth to bury some masonry or that would have been very difficult to move and that would get in the way of farmers who would take back the land (I'm assuming this to be the case), but I would have thought they'd do the minimum, and they've done a lot more, but surprisingly left those posts in the middle of that field!!! It makes me wonder what is actually under there!!!

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I know it's hard to fathom what they were doing and why it's changed so much. Being rural and all..

@mattpotter8725

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe Yeh, I can understand if they were planning on building houses on it they'd do this, but they weren't. It makes me wonder if the plan was to make it this way so it could not be easily put back, even a single line going through there (vested interests in the Beeching Cuts).

I love seeing what it was like, when you show old photos... If only you had a drone with LIDAR so you could "see" through the trees and under the grassy areas...

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brandon. If only I could afford one.

i actually managed to venture down to the Clayton tunnel entrance so if you would like some recent photos let me know but you are right its shockingly steep and i just lucked out that there was minimal brambles. Another great series this.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. I just had no interest in going down to the portal. I got to the queensbury one though in the next video. There's plenty of tunnels that we did go inside to come in this series.

@archerdeath

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe very welcome. I just wanted to see if in person. And looking forward to see all the other tunnels you go in to then. Been in plenty round the area but a good few missing off my list. Hope you do over Halifax way as plenty of rail and tunnel exploring there too. Keep up the great work.

These vids are great! Feel like you could do a whole series on the Wetherby railway?

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I will be doing a full series on them all eventually. That's the plan.

@mileswilliams1585

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdventureMe Love it, can't wait!

Thanks again for starting another series of railway history. So appreciate the period photos to give an explanation/perspective of what was there. Can you explain why the area was filled in as opposed to simply removing the track & infrastructure? Being a rural area & it hasn't been developed I can't see why it was filled in. Also where did the infill come from: it would have taken thousands of tons of material to do it for no reason?

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gary. I really don't know, I guess the farmer had a little profit scheme going on with local refuse companies