The Lost LEEDS HUNSLET LANE Station - What Remains?

[@douglasfleetney5031]

Wonderful video! The Bonded Warehouse would have been to do with wines, spirits and beers, especially imported wine and spirits. They still exist and I have collected from them many time when I was Driving HGV's, the 'Bond' is to do with the Customs and Revenue. They are generally very secure places. Last time I was in this area was 1971 and it looked very different then! Thanks for showing just how much has changed and I love the way you take the time to match the old and new pics. Thanks again.

[@trevordixon6887]

I worked at Hunslet Engine Co. 1959 to 1969 including 5 year apprenticeship. On the oppositr side of Jack Lane was Hudswell Clarke's who also made loco's. The spur from the Midland main line crossed their property to reach Hunslet works. The two companies merged in the 1970's and the Hudswell plant was demolished. Keep up the good work Darren.

[@johndelaney5889]

I did my apprenticeship at Hunslet holdings during the late 80's early 90's If Darren did his homework he could do a whole series just on Hunslet holdings from hunslet scooter car to the hunslet gmt. So what did hunslet holdings produce? Locomotive engines for the giro-mining industry to airport tugs. Also a 3 wheeled scooter car and the world's first hospital lazer. I maybe wrong on the last, but the whole history of Hunslet Holdings is worth a bit of investigation.

[@trevordixon6887]

@@johndelaney5889 it wasn't a laser,it was a scanner which rotated over the patient. I don't know how many were actually produced,but I know the first one, which I had a hand in making,went to the Ida & Robert Arthington hospital at Cookridge which was a pioneer cancer specialty hospital.

[@trevordixon6887]

John Delaney, I forgot to say it was unofficially called the "Cobalt Bomb" in the factory.

[@johnclark8423]

Hi Trevor, i started work at the Engine Co in 1970 as a 15yo. 12 months in the training centre and then on to the shop floor. It was a dirty old place but I loved it.

[@funkmasterdub]

The BBC should contract you and pay you a lot of money to do what you do because it's just brilliant, well presented and incredibly well researched. Thank you again.

[@AdventureMe]

Nah. I would be scripted and told what to do lol

[@tinplategeek1058]

Another fantastic video. I'm not from Leeds but do find industrial history fascinating and enjoy your take on it.

[@tinplategeek1058]

And what is frightening is that this history was happening in my life time and is now a distant memory. Shame the retail park have removed the memorial to the site's old use.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rwalton159]

Absolutely fascinating Darren. The way you interweave the old and new pictures is amazing. Is it just me who feels a loss when seeing the old buildings and lines that have gone forever.

[@AdventureMe]

No you are not alone.

[@Steve_Wardley_G6JEF]

By heck Darren, you sure are the king of image merging, great stuff. I remember working around that neck of the woods as an AA patrolman in the mid seventies, amongst other places. I recall being stopped while locomotives crossed from the Hunslet works. A lot has changed since then and there's something about retail parks that makes me think, Ugh ! It just seems nowardays that life has to revolve around cars, parking and spending money in retail parks. Glad I live on the coast now.

[@AdventureMe]

Haha thanks Stephen. I'll take that.

[@WestYorkshireGREAT]

I have just recently been to Crown Point Retail Park on Thursday. Funnily enough on that same day me and my partner were wondering about the history of the Retail park and what was their before it, so this video has been rather informative for us

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to have helped. Hopefully I answered your question.

[@ste.h9825]

I can remember the rail link to Hunslet Works still being used in the late 80s/early 90's.The class 323 emus must have been one of the last jobs they completed.Great video.

[@AndrewJohnson-ur3lw]

Rail connection was put back in so that the 323's could be delivered by rail

[@clivenaylor]

I worked for Schneider electric that adopted the building in 1996

[@WiggysanWiggysan]

Excellent work Sir.

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@robfrance73]

Is it just me who finds it appalling the old memorial has gone? Great work again Mr.

[@robc9845]

It might be somewhere in crown point itself but we’ll hidden,the crown point management might know where it is!

[@tvheaven3691]

Had a look for it earlier today and it has been removed, it once stood on the walkway parallel with the front of the Frankie & Benny's inline with the Nike store. Have a look on Google maps streetview and you can see it on there

[@skodiskodi9418]

, Z du d

[@FTW523.]

No mate

[@frogandspanner]

During a bus strike in the '70s I used to walk from Headingley to the New Prospect (later the Omnibus, now no more) in Belle Isle for a drink with friends. Part of the route was along Jack Lane, and on several occasions there were locomotives crossing. There were no lights or gates - just a fellow with a flag to stop traffic.

[@robc9845]

Bet that was a good 2 hour walk so a pint well earned especially after walking up Belle Isle road!

[@frogandspanner]

@@robc9845 The hard bit was the journey back - planning private locations for the consequences of large volumes of beer.

[@robc9845]

@@frogandspanner I bet it was,nowadays you’d just jump in a taxi and 20 mins later you be home,shame you couldn’t stop over at your friends for the night.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the info!

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thanks for the tour back in time. Cheers Darren.

[@leec2317]

Excellent video, keep up the great work. The photo overlays are amazing!!!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks a ton!

[@trevormegson7583]

I had no idea of the history of Crown Point retail park. Thanks Darren.

[@evan123455]

Great video. There is a film which has been on KZbin called Fully Fitted Freight about a journey of fast freight train from Bristol to Leeds Hunslet Lane. It refers to the one end of the cutting as the rhubarb end, presumably a local railwayman's term. Thanks Darren.

[@AdventureMe]

I will check it out. thanks.

[@FTW523.]

Thank you for all your videos showing us parts of my city we wouldn't get to see. The golden acre park vid was really good as was the city station one. Really pal im grateful for your time and effort

[@simonproctor8464]

Following on with Trevor Dixon comments. I was offered a apprenticeship with the Hunslet engine company in 1974 @£12.00 per week plus free dinner , but I went to Hawthorn Davey still on Jack Lane/Dewsbury Rd (now the Audi dealership) I remember the tracks etc and the Hudswell company at the top of Jack Lane and a pub that went down a side street. Was it The Albion ?? Happy days

[@a11csc]

fantastic darren ,hudswell clarke and the boyne engine work there as well

[@AdventureMe]

Cool, thanks

[@jetcat120]

Another brilliant video mate. Did you know the the Hunslet Engine Co once made 3 wheeler bubble cars for a period of time as well.

[@AdventureMe]

I didn't, but now I do. Can see why they weren't famous for it.

[@tonywiese5683]

The bubblecar was the Scootacar, it has quite a following and there are more survivors than you'd probably expect - it was more successful than a lot of similar microcars of the time. scootacar.org.uk is the place to go if anyone wants to learn more. Hunslet made a wide range of products over the years including fibreglass doors, aircraft tugs, silk presses and side reach fork lift trucks. They made so many locos that weren't generally seen because they were in industrial locations and often underground, one of the exceptions being the diesel locos that are on the Snowdon Mountain Railway in Wales. I worked at Hunslet from 1978 to 1991 and my apprenticeship there gave me a great start in life. Happy days!

[@Wedgedoow]

Thanks for a very nice, informative video it's really interesting to see the changes .see you Wednesday evening online.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks pete.

[@Geoffreytomlinson24]

Excellent mixture of past & present again, great viewing.

[@ba.skidderLOCKDOWN]

Another fab video me being aussie was very happy to learn and see something new

[@AdventureMe]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@MHVPS]

Having watched loads of your video's I got really giddy on this one as have something to add !! I also love looking and working out how things used to be wherever I am and when B Smart Automotive on Leathley lane were re locating I was in their workshop buying a ramp. As soon as I went I was looking and asking what the building used to be and told " the old Fowler engine works" Took some photos and was shown railway lines still in the floor. More research that night and I found a photo on the Leeds Engine Builders website taken from nearly the same place in the workshop, that put the hairs up on the back of my neck !!! Fantastic film as all yours are.

[@AdventureMe]

Brilliant. This is why I love what I do.

[@paulprescott7913]

Thanks Darren another great vid. Those old/new pics are brilliant.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@andymccourt8052]

Great vid again Darren. Can't get enough of the comparison photos, love them

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@michaelrender1584]

Great video Darren allways intresing look forward to the next one 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@nixtax3526]

A lot of interesting stuff mate, cheers

[@NJPurling]

One of the two sets of tracks coming out of the Hunslet works site at 6:40. Did they keep the short length of multi-gauge track that came out of the former Hunslet Erecting Shop? I think there was every gauge from 2ft up to 5ft 6in for India. I hope that they did. It would be scandalous if they did not. Just a few yards of track that said so much about the places that Hunslet sent locomotives to.

[@highpath4776]

Some temp track was laid for the anniversary of Hunslet a few years back

[@kmkwilliams9654]

Local History library have the Goad maps of the station / bonded warehouse as plan and sections all labelled up. Fowler (Darnell Works) still have the tracks in the works, narrow and broad gauge. Benson Beds was the site of The Filtrate Works where Joy made oil for the locos, including The Rocket. Stephenson visited Leeds often and spoke to Murray. Some of the perimeter wall are the engine sheds reduced in height. Fowler tested his engines on the Middleton Railway which by then was owned by Tetley who bought out the ailing Middleton Colliery. The plaque / memorial you were seeking could be the one in Costo car park commemorating Fowler / Airedale Works. It is still there. Airedale HQ building still stands and worth a look inside; ditto carpet warehouse near Darnell which was a Kitson building nearest the turntable. 1840 Pettingell view of Leeds includes this Goods Station, the turntable and tracks going all over the place.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the info.

[@allenhughes867]

I used to be a bus driver and many a time had to wait while they rolled new Carriages across the road and I do believe they made rolling stock for the Euro train.

[@brianartillery]

I went to the Isle Of Wight steam railway in 2015, and enjoyed a trip on a train. It was pulled by the 0-6-0 Hunslet Austerity 'Royal Engineer'. I love your videos about what was, and where it went. Thank you.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Brian.

[@granvillefoster6719]

Another very interesting vid. My uncle worked at Wellington Street and transferred to the Hunslet Lane site when Wellington Street closed.

[@Biggins60]

I’d love to see a video on lost stations of the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway. You can walk quite a lot of it and the old sites are largely accessible with a few relics left over.

[@vincentpilsworth3195]

Just can't believe how many stations they used to be...very interesting 😮😊

[@caleblindley7142]

Parked at Crown Point so many times not knowing what was there before. Abit like Sainsburys car park in Dewsbury, again was a big heavy goods steam train's yard, great video.

[@WmDavidHarrison]

Another interesting vlog Darren. Thank you. I'd forgotten that the class 323 units were made in Leeds by Hunslet Transportation Projects though designed in Birmingham. I think they were the last trains built under the aegis of British Rail in the mid-90s before privatisation. Ironically they've never operated in W. Yorks but in NW England and Birmingham area. It's amazing how derelict ex-railway land reforests itself with no need of human intervention.

[@seany84uk]

Excellent video again! :) Thank you!

[@AdventureMe]

Cheers Sean.

[@shirleylynch7529]

Well done. Fabulous photos past and present. Very informative but as always touch of nostalgia with things gone now. Loved the colours of the old trains. That was some size of a pipe blocking our view. Thank you for all your hard work.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks shirley. Always love your comments.

[@nickwright5531]

Always enjoys these films, particularly when you do the photo fades. Great to see before and after, albeit a tad sad.

[@christelbraune4530]

Es war sehr interessant dir zuzuhören. Thank you Darren 👋🏻

[@simonbache7469]

I know you use the National Library of Scotland mapping services, but have you used their Side by Side georeferenced maps service? Looking around this area using OS 25inch 1892-1914 in the left pane and Bing Hybrid in the right pane is fascinating. So much change.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes I do, that's the one I mainly use. I love the side-by-side.

[@highpath4776]

@@AdventureMe Was someone using an old map when HS2 is sort of considering entering leeds via the crown point location

[@kangaroo092]

Amazing good job ! Passionating, fascinating, highly documented ... Once again I had nice moment with you ;)

[@AdventureMe]

Merci mon ami.

[@markb9013]

Many thanks for another informative video.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Mark.

[@paulharvey9149]

Leeds is not a city I know well at all, but I love all the industrial archaeology and especially the way you run the old photos into new ones, Darren. Clever as well as cute, eh?

[@grantbassett2048]

Darren & Chris, your hard work and Knowledge is a god sent for all us people who didn't see it in real life. Excellent job. 👌 Cheers Grant.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@robc9845]

Another excellent video,drive down here regularly just wish I was taking more pictures when the 323s were getting built c s it’s all history now,amazing how much off Hunslet was all railway years ago.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@alannickson3197]

Cracking video thanks, I used to live in Leeds in the 70s and 80s and remember the development in the area, such a shame there is no information centre there for people to visit. There is so much industrial history in the city including the canal system and TETLEYS the best bitter you could get. Keep up the good work.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

9:00 Lord love ya Darren! Only a true student of his art would film a pairing 'now' shot to the original 'then' one which has a dirty great pipe slap bang in the centre field of view. And carry on as planned with a cool brush off mention of the elephant in the room. Bonza!

[@showmanpete2805]

another great vid, sad to see it's all gone now..i keep wanting to recreate some of it on transport fever 2..thanks again and keep em coming

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate.

[@paulg3752]

Brilliant. Love the videos. I lived over in Manchester back when the 323s were being built and remember coming over to look for them, also I'm sure there was a car auction site close by where I bought a car many years ago. Never realised that the retail park was on that old railway land either. Keep them coming!

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@phillipbragan7503]

I work round the corner from this on the other part of jack lane and always wondered if you would venture down there with all that rail history. Always good to see before and after pictures keep up the good work 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Phillip.

[@Al-qv5vs]

Another interesting video. Thank you.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate.

[@tobys_transport_videos]

I haven't been to Leeds (I'm not British) but in my travels in that part of England, I had considered it. (I chose a Class 150 run (as opposed to being able to get a Class 142 Pacer) instead from Manchester back in 2019) I found that city quite interesting. Your videos of _what was_ regarding Leeds railway stations and Goods Sheds/Yards are amazing! In the video on the various Leeds stations, you look at the elevation sheds and show the outside of the building today. I'm surprised you don't mention how the building has been hacked at to demolish something else. 😮 Thanks otherwise for an interesting video surprise, and expect to hear from me again soon. 🙂 🚂 Regards, Toby (Mixed Gauge Videos) in Australia. 🙂

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate. Greetings to Auz

[@johndelaney5889]

Those lines into Hunslet Holdings, Were re installed in the very early 90's. I worked their at the time. They were re installed because we got the contact for the channel tunnel.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the info.

[@tonycallaghan170]

Keep up this fine work guys 👍👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Tony.

[@stephenhelm9781]

I live in the high rise block that is just at the other side of the M621 to Crown Point. My kitchen window looks down onto the M621 and the cutting leading up to Crown Point is clearly visible.

[@gareththomas6714]

again very interesting and so thorough i think im adicted to these

[@rontanser9369]

Wow that was really interesting thank you ! I love the way you blend the old pictures with the present day

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you so much!

[@ann-mariepaliukenas19]

I was walking down this street yesterday lol and seeing the blue plaque and the old railway tracks.

[@jonathanhall7334]

Great Video of your usual High Standard. It's such a shame all the Old Infrastructure has gone forever

[@AdventureMe]

Yes such a shame

[@johnpawson7400]

Love how fade in the now and then

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks John.

[@daffyduk77]

Some great "before & after" photo juxtapositions, also interesting to see the Hunslet TPL 323 trains in green & white, emerging for use in W.Mids & elsewhere, where I used to ride on them

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate. More to come

[@webby2168]

Great video, 2 things... I think there is still some original buildings on the east side of the retail park. Between the back of the row of shops and the buildings on butterly street, you can street view in the service yard and it’s very interesting. Secondly, can you looking to the old stations of yeadon and Otley? Yeadon I believe is the council yard now but you can still see the old path the rails used to go down, same with Otley.

[@suesmith4366]

I think it’s very bad the Memorial has gone, as it celebrated a lot of what has shaped Leeds today. 😡 But brilliant as always excellent to watch, so full of info and before and afters. I love Sundays 😎

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah it's a shame. We couldn't find it anywhere. Not unless they plan on reinstating it someday

[@chriswalker2749]

Thanks for another really interesting and informative video. At the start of the video is the bridge actually on Dewsbury Road with Jack Lane in the background ?

[@AdventureMe]

The one where I did the photo fades was from the A61 Bridge on the M621 Slip road yeah.

[@michaelmiller641]

Another excellent video with interesting transitions!

[@AdventureMe]

Many thanks!

[@adrianstricklandhyde3638]

It has been about 15 years since I left Leeds, does not look the same without Tetely's Brewery. It was always a major landmark.

[@AdventureMe]

I agree. It's well and truly missed.

[@craigstringwell6058]

I’ve always wondered about the tracks in the road when I’ve driven down jack lane but never realised the scale of what it used to be! Another great video Darren 😎👍🏼

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to help

[@trainsinkansas576]

Great video, how it was and is now, sad in a way. I live in Meriden, Kansas and a rail line ran through here for years but was abandoned in 1960 and removed in 1995. It was put in in 1860.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the info

[@OuradventuresGU]

The reality of what's left of Hunslet is the shunting loco that many operators around the globe relied on, think LH Group now own the rights to the name and they may possibly still produce. Another great video well done and great to see you hit the 10K subscribers! #Jealous

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the info. Cheers

[@MartinJames389]

Leeds had a lot of good yards, including Marsh Lane and Crossgates (others?) apart from Crown Point. Its central position made it pivotal and a major transfer point for a lot of goods traffic. Wakefield was, too, and really part of the same transfer node.

[@AdventureMe]

It certainly did.

[@quickclipsbyjmj]

I work at Leeds City College (Printworks campus). My taxi takes me along Jack Lane, onto Leathley Road and to the Hunslet Road campus.

[@AdventureMe]

Brilliant.

[@gavlosmedia6323]

Sundays used to be all about the Eastenders Omnibus now its Darren we look forward to seeing on the old telly box!

[@AdventureMe]

Lol. I don't watch TV anymore. Glad I can provide you with entertainment.

[@AceRimmer_]

I enjoy learning about Leeds in your videos

[@anthonymoore6009]

So much stuff to explore around Leeds, keep up the good work. No more culverts please 👍

[@AdventureMe]

The culverts are not getting in the way of my normal stuff. The culverts are Wednesdays only. My normal explores are always Sundays. Don't worry

[@kletops46]

Back in 'The British Rail Day'... our 'ODM' Depot was on Kidacre Street and we had to walk across what is now Crown Point to collect our 'Pay-Packets'... for anyone who wonders what a 'Pay-Packet' is, it's an envelope stuffed with cash. We were allowed to finish 15 Minutes early every Thursday to walk over and collect the said Pay-Packet.

[@oldmanvlogger9259]

Fascinating, although I worked around there in the mid 70's, I can't really remember what it looked like! Sometimes, regeneration is better!

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah I can't imagine it being beautiful.

[@slash653able]

My great uncle worked at the engine company after the war, His name was Stan North who lived on Hillidge road.

[@AdventureMe]

Great name.

[@snapperxv]

Definitely tramline on the front of the schal office park, I put the trip rail in when it was built, right on the line of the post holes about 9" above the level the whole bottoms should be, so I spent 2 days upside down with an angle grinder.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to have it confirmed. Thanks mate.

[@mikecawood]

Wow, great and informative video.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Michael

[@robfrance73]

I thought The Jolly Giant Toy Store was here but was on Aireside retail park on Whitehall Road... Doesn't that have a simpler back story? Seem to remember old buildings there.

[@robc9845]

They area is getting redeveloped Again but the old wagon hoist is listed so is the only bit of history that remains from the old central area.

[@kmkwilliams9654]

@@robc9845 At Monkbridge there remains a truncated viaduct that brought Q Victoria in to open the Town Hall. This viaduct will become a pedestrian walkway in from Armley. The former hotel on Thirsk Row was the buffer-stops hotel of this former station. If you look closely you can find the entrance at first floor level where steps led down to Aire Street, the whole station being at first floor level, and hence the hoists to get the carriages up and down.

[@robc9845]

@@kmkwilliams9654 cheers,will have a mooch next time I’m in town,when I walked down the canal t’other week the viaduct or what remains had loads of cranes around it building the new accommodation blocks or whatever they are becoming.

[@davemcintoshyt277]

Great content brother. New sub from North Wales 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the sub!

[@ronnievenhorst9873]

You make nice videos. Very interesting

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you very much!

[@ronnievenhorst9873]

@@AdventureMe It's nice to see

[@harri2626]

I remember a railway expert once telling me that Leeds built more steam locomotives than any other place in the UK. Most were small industrial engines, but nevertheless an impressive fact.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes that's true. There were many engine builders in Hunslet.

[@johnlumley-moore2079]

Another place i remember in my youth ...as a goods yard ....

[@jeffreyhodge5564]

Remarkable as I have commented before the deindustrialisation of our nation and replacing with shopping centres ie crown point ,also I have seen the film fully fitted freight and in the goods yard at Bristol the police.bonding certain wagons with sealed wire and lock ie bonded goods like sherry and tobacco ,well worth watching ,great history lesson on Leeds I often when coming out of Leeds station by train the rail lines embedded in Doncaster Monkbridge plant ,another piece of leed’s industrial past.

[@smudger190]

Have you ever done anything about the roundhouse near Armley Gyratory?

[@AdventureMe]

Not yet, but will be doing.

[@BucksRhino22]

My granddad worked the hunslet engine works and John Fowler's also in the 60 up to 80s my uncle also work for Fowler's too can remember when I was at high school in the 80s a teacher took us kids exploring in the the cutting leading to the hunslet lane depot can remember the derilict signal box falling apart

[@susanwrigglesworth1340]

My dad worked there when it was hudswel Clarke and then it changed to hudswel badger

[@XMmikeLVII]

On the opposite side of Jack Lane to HECo was Hudswell Clarkes who also made loco engines.

[@peak45]

Cracking channel just subscriped well done.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching and welcome aboard.

[@brianmacdonald2803]

I’d like to see a video on the tram network Leeds once had

[@ruthleadbeater50]

My Uncle was foreman at hunslet engine company most of his life. Ken Cross.

[@bigmonkey999888]

Hi Darren, progress? I sometimes wonder! Steve

[@AdventureMe]

Tell me about it.

[@Jon-es-i6o]

Aye lad thas going back some. Want there a railway line further south at Stourton? And a canal!

[@AdventureMe]

Yes. I did that one too

[@chrisrobertshaw]

At the entrance to Costco there’s a Fowler’s traction engine sign

[@TheDAT9]

Those traction engines were exported all over the World.

[@neilpickup237]

Rather than being left derelict, wasn't it used by National Carriers as their Leeds depot right up until it was all demolished to make way for the retail park?

[@AdventureMe]

Most probably. But it was a derelict site pretty much.

[@suesmith4366]

I’ve been in contact with Yorkshire Post, so let’s see what happens re- missing Memorial. 🤔

[@AdventureMe]

Brilliant. Hope it's going back.

[@suesmith4366]

I hope so too 👍🏻

[@grantbassett2048]

O did you see (DAZ ) on the bridge over your left shoulder (3:57) made me laugh 🤣. Its too old for you to have done it.....

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah I did notice it when I watched it back.