My Dad had a Javelin back in the 1960's.

It was a wonderful building and it was replaced by a complete abomination of a building.

Enjoyed the review very interesting information . Ive visited marvels funfair many times when it was opened and it was great fun and the iconic chairlifts were always a pleasure. Shame it closed in 2002

It was a spectacular building, i used to pass it on my way to valley parade in the 1970's. The fire was very suspicious, from memory planning permission had previously been declined.

Don't forget jollys in shipley in the 80s had some great nights out there😊

Odsal Stadium????

You forgot Bibi's 😁

Great history, I have never seen that photograph before, I think I saw Stardust their late 74 early 75.

I saw superman 2 and 3 there as well as the first back to the future. I preferred it to the Odeon.

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There are many horrendous spelling errors for local.place names, they must be computer generated.

Thanks Andy!

The video and audio are out of synchronisation..

Shouldn't have scrapped these lines. They could've served as metro/light rail lines today.

Good to see something about this virtually forgotten station & railway line. Thanks

The line to skipton badly needs to be opened to aid capacity in surrounding routes

I remember it well, my grandma lived just up from the station in Town End. It was a short walk down Toby Lane to the station. Excellent video.

Lovely to see his and its great content! Keep up the great work.

All these fantastic events once held in Bradford, and now it's like night and day. What happened Bradford?

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

1:32 For the bradfordians, this is the train yard which used to be near canon mills. The road on the above bankment, on the left is beckside road

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.

When they demolished the exchange station Bradford ceased to be a proper city how can a proper city have a glorified bus shed for a Railway station

My great grandfather was a night watchman there. My gran lived nearby; I only remember it as CD Bramall truck dealership.

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.

Bradford council have always known how to make the wrong decision and have always been quick to destroy our heritage.

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.

It's difficult to understand why the adjacent areas didn't expand after the line was constructed?

Another great vid thanks. I like both style and content, so please keep going with more.

Trying to post a normal comment and your comment settings keep blocking it. Sort it out.

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.

Do you know anything about the line that run passed eccleshill ravenscliffe?

Do you remember the Dinosaurs ?

Nice explanation. It would be nice if a an historical map was included to illustrate the route of the liine.

I always liked the original brown and orange liveries with the original bench style seating. They were much more comfortable than the newer seats.

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wow those pesky victorians were so advanced in their thinking, some countries still dont have power stations, yet we had one in the 1800s

Unfortunately there seems to be quite a bit of stumbling over the name of the resort. It's BLACKPOOL, not BRADFORD. 😀

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

This was a good rollercoaster. I remember visiting in about '97.

Good information about the Queensbury lines thank you.

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 ?