Hidden Secrets Of Leeds Station | The Secret River!

Exploring behind the scenes at Leeds City Station & the old Wellington Station, uncovering all of it's history and Hidden Secrets. We visit many areas that the public don't get to see, such as the River Aire tunnels as they pass underneath the station and an old ancient river called the King's Mill Goit that is still visible.
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[@srfurley]

British Transport Films made a series of ‘Report on Modernisation’ films. The first two were made in 1959 and 1961. In one of these, I think it was the first, a model of the proposed Leeds station development was shown. When I was last there a couple of years ago I walked through the North Concourse and just before reaching the exit at the far end on the right side is a tile mosaic seen set into the floor, ‘News Theatre’. I remember the ones at Victoria and Waterloo Stations in London, but I didn’t know that Leeds also had one. The only other one I know of was at Grand Central Terminal in New York City. When the North Concourse at Leeds was being cleared out in preparation for restoration and re-opening something against one of the walls had been removed, revealing the remains of a poster for the 1966 Southport Flower Show.

[@mr.goatman4024]

Your country has such wonderful history, I just can't get enough

[@KingBritish]

The UK is unmatched.

[@apocalypticdaze2139]

​@@KingBritish😂

[@Fred-rj3er]

WOW! Brilliant! So much history! I'm jealous, I would love to explore like this. Too decrepit n old now lol. So thank you SO MUCH for sharing. History of the city I have lived in and loved all my life. Even had a great, great grandparent that lived on Shannon St. Tiz in mi blood. Thank you.

[@DEAD-DROP]

I've climbed onto the suspended walkway that hangs above where the river enters the tunnel and looked down at that door wondering what's behind it.. So satisfying to finally know! haha The layers of infrastructure are amazing, love seeing stuff like this. Really well covered!

[@hollimurray8856]

Love videos like this especially when it involves doors that no one else is allowed in but you get to go in! Imagine if you where on Secrets Of The London Underground! 😊

[@AdventureMe]

That would be cool!

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Sure would. Just as long as you're not in place of Siddy. Or Chris even.

[@atiny4lyfe8m1]

It's just amazing how much history still exist in major cities if you know where to look! 😊

[@rachaelhardcastle5158]

Loved it - you should have your own TV history show Darren, you really should! 📺 You're up there with Attenborough - you and him are two people who I could listen to all day, you're very calming, and I'm totally hooked to everything you say and show us on your videos! 🤍

[@AdventureMe]

I don't know about that lol

[@silvialittlewolf]

This is so interesting! I bet the vast majority of citizens and visitors have no idea of all that is and was going on underground. Even the people using that underground car park probably don't realize.

[@mrsgenehunt48]

It's mind blowing what is under our feet. I bet you never look at things up above the same way once you know what's underneath. Excellent video Darren 👍

[@AdventureMe]

My thoughts exactly

[@jvanhee71]

This is excellent evidence that the civilisation before us was far more advanced than ours - the inheritors.

[@andywilliamson]

Leeds is where I live and I still get fascinated with these amazing videos, still got so much to see before its either knocked down for a shopping centre or a cycle lane.

[@nixtax3526]

Fascinating stuff mate, cheers

[@davidberlanny3308]

Amazing video Darren. You never know whats under your feet!! I'm glad you've been able to record it. Big thanks to Network Rail for giving you access and showing you around. Very enjoyable to watch. Well done and good luck from Spain!!

[@michaelwatterson2965]

Quite simply Darren, brilliant. Plenty to think about now when next walking through Leeds centre. Thanks.

[@AdventureMe]

Excellent

[@chrisbradley1192]

Thanks Darren, really enjoyed this one.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to hear it

[@ShedTV]

Fascinating. I was only chatting to a friend tonight about how interesting it is that so many waterways are under our feet, filled in and tunnelled, not just in the cities, but in towns and villages even.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks. And now more under Leeds lol

[@neilvincent5524]

Darren that was fantastic. I’ve been wanting to see what’s down there for years. Seriously I’ve been obsessed! Thank you

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nealeje]

Yet another great. Never knew much about this.

[@shirleylynch7529]

Amazing. Superb video. We don’t know the half of what lies beneath do we? Well done Darren. Love the ethereal background music.

[@saraclayton-smithson5083]

Outstanding! This is definitely your best work yet!! I love how clearly you explained everything and how easy it was to follow. The attention to detail and accuracy of your information is second to none!! Can’t wait for the next episode now thank you

[@AdventureMe]

Wow, thank you!

[@lynnballington8467]

Hello Darren how are you thanks for the fantastic vidio you never know what is unneith our feet in Leeds very interested best wishes take care stay safe xx ❤😊

[@johncunnane1582]

well presented and interesting, thanks a mil for posting.

[@daviespaulaann8913]

Wow another amazing watch...your so. informative on the subject your filming

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you kindly

[@Peter-MH]

Amazing, it’s like a time warp down there!

[@mandycoleman1394]

That was brilliant ! Simply love your videos! It’s history brought to life !!

[@AdventureMe]

Many thanks!

[@ChrisCaaa]

Loved watching this video, a real masterpiece!

[@Tuberuser187]

Fantastic explore and insight, thanks for sharing it.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@cafeatltd2214]

Brilliant videos - each and everyone of them. So refreshing to meet someone who doesn't just walk around aimlessly with a camera. Thank you

[@UKAbandonedMineExplores]

Absolutely fascinating thanks, nice to see those moring posts and the dock side.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@danpanther]

Wonderful videos. Fascinates me how lovingly and majestically the victorians built infrastructure, then we bludgeoned it to death in the preceding years!! Building inside their amazing structures

[@michaelmiller641]

Fascinating!

[@a11csc]

wonderful history darren

[@Dan23_7]

That place is spectacular Darren, so much history in layers to see. I bet a lot of those people who park there don’t have a clue about it. Thanks so much for showing us all 🎥. I’m going to hop over to Martin Zero now haha. All the best, take care 👍🏼

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Dan23_7]

@@AdventureMe Absolutely 👌🏼

[@paulwilliams8725]

Great video really interesting 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jonathanhall7334]

Amazing Video fascinating subject.

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you!

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you for the underground tour today. “Goit”, another word not used in the US. Your also a language teacher, Darren! Another great video to tour with you and absorb new language. Your the best, Darren. Cheers Darren! ❤😊

[@AdventureMe]

It's rarely used here too. That's why I had to explain it.

[@martinmarsola6477]

@@AdventureMe Thank you again for the knowledge. It’s great and intelligently used by you, Darren. I would like to get back to the UK, and maybe meet a lot of the video producers. But unfortunately, I’m not totally recovered from my previous injuries and hospitalizations. Again, thank you for knowledgeable language. See you on the next, Cheers mate!

[@stevencurrey3957]

Thanks for an amazing video! Please do more like this.

[@roberte5303]

Another excellent video.. loved it and the Range Rover Sport with diamond turned alloys

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@michelefoxton1586]

This is just brilliant and so interesting x

[@angelajuneholmes4933]

That was incredible Darren , such a fascinating exploration of somewhere I know and walk above yet don’t know at all . I do remember shops and bars but all changed now . Thank you for taking us . 😊

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@blueneeson9888]

Thanks This Was A Absolutely Brilliant Video From Blue

[@andybonner5105]

Brilliant! Another fantastic and fascinating video Darren! My office used to be on Swinegate and colleagues used to park in the Bruntwood carpark. It truly is amazing to see the underground secrets of Leeds. Keep up the great work!

[@mickeyfilmer5551]

It would be very interesting to see the LIDAR map of all those tunnels and chambers- I assume the architechts will have commissioned one before embarking on this complete regeneration of the area.

[@AdventureMe]

I'm sure they have

[@dianeshepherd7913]

This is so interesting must be so good to actually see ! Although spooky. Thanks for all the info, you have no idea whats beneath your feet under the pavements or what was there many years ago !

[@paulrobinson8263]

Awesome stuff mate thank you, your content is put across so well 👌👍

[@AdventureMe]

Much appreciated!

[@peterthornton2396]

Fascinating Darren. I used to go to a beautiful Chinese restaurant under those arches years ago. Just mind blowing to see such changes to the flow of a river and the evidence still being there. Love it.

[@paulwaite1530]

Best video yet, absolutely fascinating to see how much remains given the huge changes to the path of the river and the removal of the goit. Keep up the amazing work Darren.

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

I've watched this first Darren, and completely missed part one, which I'm going to have to watch! This is all interesting stuff, and there can't be many stations with so many tunnels and passage ways underneath as here in Leeds. All those spanning bridges of different eras is amazing. Many thanks for this video.

[@ASupraGuy]

Another amazing video mate! really enjoyed this one. So great to finally get to see whats under there!

[@groovydonkey]

It's amazing what is under our feet and have no idea. I find the videos you do so fascinating and very informative. Keep up the good work.

[@rjowen]

This is incredible stuff. Thank you. I work in the Platform building above the car park at 13:10 and I park my bike in there. It's interesting looking out of the 11th floor and watching the development of New Station Street (November 2023) as they have just uncovered the mill goit and the giant Victorian girders are clearly visible.

[@damedavidfrith55]

Wow what an interesting trip so much left to see 🎉

[@AdventureMe]

Yes it was!

[@hyperballadbradx6486]

Best kind of explorations and history lessons!

[@paulharvey9149]

Darren, I will never think of an expanded city station in quite the same way again, as might even be on top of you! Your knowledge of all these old thoroughfares, waterways and bridges is impressive indeed and fascinating too - especially for those that imagine that things have always been as they see them in the present! There are persistent rumours about Edinburgh Waverley, following the success of the Glasgow Central tours, saw paws crossed, eh? You might even get to guide the guides...

[@Feral_Bog_Witch]

I love your videos, particularly the ones in Leeds, having lived here all my life. Whenever I travel through the dark arches I wonder what's going on behind walls and underneath the road/buildings, so thank you for quenching my thirst for knowledge. Also, I don't know if you've ever seen Red Dwarf, but I can't hear the word 'goit' without interpreting it as an insult 😂

[@pyrodoll2422]

These have been fantastic watching although it's criminal to imagine these places being filled in. Amazing to see all the different building methods under there, all looking like they grew together like crystals will grow right through each other. Well done as always.

[@Andrewjg_89]

Very interesting once again to see how Leeds was built including the railway station that serves Leeds.

[@christelbraune4530]

Dankeschön Darren. 😊👍

[@tramographyMCR]

Thank you SO much for this video! I'm still looking for metro ideas, and maybe a repurpose for what used to be the underground station is pretty interesting, though I am based in Greater Manchester, and is about an hour and a half train to get to Leeds, added that I also have work on my own channel. Having an actual look inside the tunnel is really helpful

[@AndyJHiscock]

Sensational

[@stephensutcliffe1555]

Thank you very much for uploading this.

[@AdventureMe]

No worries!

[@swanteal2355]

Darren I'm so impressed by how much knowledge you give us and to remember where everything is under ground. Thank you, I really enjoyed watching the history of Leeds and other areas. Keep making more videos 📸. ❇️🏵️🌸👍😊 .

[@AdventureMe]

You are very welcome

[@andrewnbrown]

I've been down in the car park because I used to work in City House (the big building outside the station) and the company leased some spaces down there. Great to see all the other stuff. Excellent work.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Andrew

[@fatlad5090]

Great video big daz. Always wounded what was down there.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@jeffdayman8183]

Very interesting Darren! Lots of arches and waterways in that site. Amazing what's below modern street level in Leeds. Cheers and thanks for the video.

[@douglasthompson296]

Hi Darren matey, one again into the nethworlds of Leeds, spooky or what. I bet MartinZ would be as moist as you too under there 😁 esp if you were allowed to wear the Network Rail hiviz overalls. I guess that means Network Rail are the custodians of that labyrinth then. All those bridge outlines were awesome. The carparking reminds me of the carparking under the old Central Station here in Mancs. Anyway cheers DougT

[@AdventureMe]

Absolutely

[@douglasthompson296]

@@AdventureMe ✔️😎

[@Sharon-marie]

Absolutely fascinating and amazing thankyou for part 2

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Sharon

[@KeithHambidge]

Fascinating stuff as hidden under the station 👍

[@chrismccartney8668]

Translation required for a Southerner **Trout Ladder**. This is an excellent Video well up with my Big Favourite the Fantastic Martin Zero with Manchester..

[@jvanhee71]

It’s literally a ladder they build to enable trout to swim upstream. It’s a series of water-filled steps that allow the fish to bypass a major obstruction such as a dam or a weir.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it. A trout ladder. For trout fish to swim up a weir on a river lol

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Looks too ancient and from a time when there were plenty of salmon and nobody knew that they'd need a hand on their final journey for that one last bonk.

[@andyreact]

I've worked in various places around Leeds/dark arches and parked in the car park with the ramp you showed here, I wondered about it's history! Very interesting! 👍

[@christopherjordan4812]

Brilliant video Darren. I’ve passed that metal gate thousands of times as I’ve gone through the Dark Arches, it always looked suspicious to me. How do cars gain access to the what I have found out the be a car park.

[@AdventureMe]

I think they now enter from swinegate side.

[@suesmith4366]

Loved it I’d no idea all that was there, I can remember going to to shops through the dark arches and parking at the other side, the river going through the dark arches was scary and fascinating. You have made it all clear with this and the stonework is amazing. All that going on above past history, nobody would know😮. Great work Darren 😎

[@benpc1794]

Amazing! Just stumbled upon your channel and am really glad I did. Really interesting and well produced video, also I have a new love for the word goit! You've got a new sub from me :)

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Ben. Lots of similar stuff on the channel if you get bored.

[@stuartt9132]

Fantastic insight to the past.

[@papalegba6796]

Am amazed they let you down there mate, I worked at Leeds station for a year & saw none of this.

[@AdventureMe]

It's all going. That's the reason

[@papalegba6796]

@@AdventureMe whoa they filling it all in?!?

[@zaczac9580]

that wer a reet chuffin cracker love ! amazing knowledge presented clearly and accurately . those arches have always fascinated me and also creeped me out - even more to be creeped out by now you have shown me the whole complex ! thankyou ! you the BOSS !

[@lindseykaine-walley6339]

I know this has been said a million times before but by God this is an excellent explore series you are doing. I'm not familiar with Leeds being a Sheffielder but it still a wonder to watch. Hats off to you Darren, keep up the good vids!

[@AdventureMe]

Cool, thanks!

[@jetsons101]

I also find it amazing and I'm all the way in America, you guys have so much history just out your front doors.

[@johnbrice2842]

great great video again well done

[@michaelrender1584]

That was brilliant video Darren thanks very interesting 👍 do you still watch post 10

[@AdventureMe]

Yes I do

[@michaelrender1584]

@@AdventureMe same here would u be into winter camping would you sleep in a culvert?

[@johnlumley-moore2079]

Excellent ..nice history ..

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks a lot

[@mandycoleman1394]

What happened to the queens hall near or under the dark arches? Went to see a few well known bands there back in the day !!

[@jetsons101]

If those arches could talk, the stories they could tell...... Funny how we live our lives not knowing what's under where we live, work and play. Thanks Darren for this great watch.

[@gjb82]

Those columns at 5:47 don't look in great shape! What's above? Great vid as always....

[@AdventureMe]

Just a roadway into the car park

[@Wedgedoow]

Unbelievable what is underneath Leeds Station.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Under the city centre as a whole in fact. Even more, how many times has this been done in how many towns and cities across the country, the planet in fact? I'm really impressed by the tanking/waterproofing successfully completed back in the mists of the distant past. It had to be perfect because of the enormous amount of pressure exerted on the walls of and by the former goit. Those arches from (13:11) are absolute beauties and it's a total travesty that they're only visible to a few parked cars.

[@gavlosmedia6323]

Epic Darren How many rats did you bump into?

[@AdventureMe]

None funny enough

[@Phillip-o8n]

Great find 👍

[@tugger10doran15]

Good morning Darren

[@AdventureMe]

Hello there!

[@nigelbarker4135]

Absolutely magnificent Darren👍👏👏👏👏. That was a part I wasn’t aware of as regards access. I text both you a zero about these hidden gems but I’m glad you won the race as I believe you are a notch above him as regards the intense research and your famous fade-outs. You now need to gain access to where the barges went under the station as I believe there is still a working lock behind the bricked up arches.

[@AdventureMe]

There is Nigel. I'm working on it

[@dragonheatgaming5005]

Goit is also a great insult 😂

[@juliec70]

Very interesting video ty 😊

[@AdventureMe]

Very welcome

[@Ben-db5re]

Great video, I was lucky enough to get a tour of this with network rail as well. It was absolutely fascinating, at 0:29 where abouts did you find that map? I'd love to study some more old maps of Leeds prior to them building the station above the river aire!

[@AdventureMe]

I've had them for years. Part of my collection

[@Grid56]

Having walked along dark arches to access the southern bars on many a night out, i always felt uncomfortable, the darkness and sound of the water making it quite spooky. I never knew that all this was beyond the arches car park. Very revealing, and fascinating. Is it all going to be lost (buried forever) or just blocked off ?

[@frogandspanner]

0:35 That merge confused me - with Briggate jumping 500 m to the east. So, it wasn't the course of the river that changed - the whole city was shifted.

[@AdventureMe]

That wasn't a merge it was a transition

[@frogandspanner]

@@AdventureMe Hmmmm!

[@davidnorman7761]

Darren I knew something was under there but never did I think it was as vast as that.i deliver to Bibbis restaurant close to where you were filming and the vastness of the area under cover and buried is over whelming.once again a superb video brilliant details and images .keep going Darren brilliant work.can I just say that under there the line for York would be above you .just saying.

[@ebonysweetnesssweetness5153]

I'm enjpying these video's sopleased Icame across this chanel.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

Astonishing archaeological labyrinth. DIfficult to get your bearings, let alone picture its earlier industrial history, before the river/goyt was bricked-over. Must have created some problems, I would imagine, when putting in the foundations for the new buildings? Well done - a very interesting couple of video's!

[@kletops46]

Miss the Map ‘Overlay’ Transitions.

[@AdventureMe]

There aren't many maps to use

[@Fred-rj3er]

Imagine all the brickies and the organisation in the days of horses n carts. No telephones perhaps, telegrams. A serious logistics challenge. OK, it took many years, but still. There is a lot of skill there, to lay bricks that have lasted so long.

[@MarcusWainwright]

We fished down there as kids in the early 80s

[@MoPaTography]

I'm astonished just how deep it goes underneath the station and the wider river/gout complex. There's just so much room! It's honestly such a shame they can't think of a way to reuse the space for other than car parking. My personal dream is for Leeds to have an underground metro, wouldn't it be wonderful if all this space was put to use for it!

[@AdventureMe]

If only. We can dream lol

[@InclusiveDriving]

I lived in Leeds around 1995. Was any of what you showed in this film, part of Granary Wharf (not sure if Granary Wharf still exists)?

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah. It still exists. Some of that was yeah