The Lost Goods Railway of Hunslet - What Remains?

Join me as we explore the different sections of the abandoned Hunslet Goods Branch Railway.
In this video we explore the abandoned section of railway line from Beeston Junction and through to the Middleton Railway & the Cuckoo Steps. We look for anything left behind, or any relics still remaining to this day.
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[@kay110]

Love the cross fade between current scene and past photo. You are managing to do a great job of matching them together. Another great video Darren.

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you so much 😀

[@volvos60bloke]

As usual, this is excellent stuff, brilliantly made, brilliantly explained, fabulous research. Thanks.

[@AdventureMe]

Wow, thank you!

[@ruthbrierley1798]

The superimposed pics are great.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Ruth. Coming soon.

[@lindamccaughey6669]

That was so good, I really enjoyed it and look forward to next one. Thanks for taking me along and please stay safe

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you! Will do!

[@graemehannam3950]

Great video thanks, love the way you merge old and new pictures, to show what it used to look like keep the great videos coming out and stay safe

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@billykegs8782]

Love these videos. I think from Hunslet goods yard the line continues today to a cutting called the Navvy. One spooky place. As a kid what fascinated me most was the Waterloo Colliery Paddy Line. This snaked through Cross Green and went through the backyard of the Bridgefield pub. Then over the Navvy through the back of terraced houses to Easy Road Staithes .Photos are very rare. I never saw it running. It closed in November 1968. But I remember watching an Austerity shunter being pulled out onto a low loader probably 1975. Another one was Osmondthorpe station that evaded me. Killingbeck junction, four lines all the way past Cross Gates and the Wetherby Branch. Throw in steam trains, talk about being born too late. I also started school the day Jimi Hendrix died. I need a drink. Great show.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@grantbassett2048]

Hi Darren, Yeah your picture fades really help. Can't believe what was there. It makes sense of the Industrial Estates and the waste ground around them, and the M621 route. The Car auctions we pick cars up from, Middleton/Hunslet, and big one in Rothwell area (Manheim) I'm sure that would of been Goods yards at one time, Anyway Brilliant job as Normal D. 🌞, looking forward to part 2. Cheers Grant.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks grant. Coming soon.

[@elliotdavies8815]

Really interesting video I live on the bottom of Southleigh Road, the first part of the road was built in the 30s and would have had the line running alongside it the newer part was built on farmland in the 70s. My neighbours were telling me the trackbed was still down in the 70s after its had stopped being used, the railway then offered the land to households on that side for a small fee but only on the condition that everyone agreed to buy it.

[@paulweeks2006]

Darren, yet another superb video and those old photographs cross faded into the current scenery are just brilliant ! As a Railway enthusiast it is fantastic to see the old photos showing how the area looked back in the day, especially when today it is almost impossible to see how it would have been or looked .........

[@AdventureMe]

Many thanks paul!

[@christopherrichardson5652]

Brilliant video love it when you over lay old vs current pictures helps picture how things used to be vs how they are now

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@paulnutter1713]

My auntie bought the show house in 1971 when the estate was getting built. Been in the tunnel or underpass and walked down the old trackbed.

[@razzman7711]

Same here I have been under the the old railway tunnel I must have been 13 or 14 back then 1968/9 with my cousin who lived on Parkwood Road, I heard it was filled in when they knocked down The Leek Street Flats in the 1970's, Great Video

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate.

[@inferdrone8377]

Very informative yet again Darren, I am looking forward to the next video in this little series. Thankyou.

[@AdventureMe]

More to come!

[@shirleylynch7529]

Great footage. Winter colours are still beautiful. Thank you for sharing your journey with us through disappearing tracks and paths etc. So informative and nostalgic. Well done.

[@AdventureMe]

Many thanks!

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Ooh nice video! Another fun adventure with accurate details. Glad you have someone with you. The fence posts were interesting marking out the old railway boundry

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@cvsdigital]

Your videos are superb. Leeds has such fantastic railway history. Oh how I wish I had time to do stuff like this! Well done and thanks.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you like them!

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thanks for the tour, Darren. See you on the next.

[@kevinparkin5438]

Good evening Darren I've just watched Beeston railway part one I really like the way that you find things out and like you said sometimes you look at a place and can't imagine just how it, looks until you put in photos that help also looking forward to seeing the swing bridge as I know where that is and i now have a photo of what it looked like well keep up the interesting work looking forward to the next one ps when I once asked if you about doing one with you but not on camera you said I had to go on camera well I could do what that fellow did and say hi all the best Kevin

[@AdventureMe]

Ha ha, i got him on camera though lol.

[@ianrumgay9595]

Fascinating video again really like how you combine the old photos with the present landscape . That was some viaduct back in the day and those cuckoo steps looked a bit tricky .Those residents did well making their gardens bigger . Look forward to next installment.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@wendymcfadyen-allerby6142]

I find the history of the old railways fascinating and the way the past and present pictures are shown with the back stories. Thank you so much.

[@SpursFanCanada]

I grew up in Beeston in the 60's and,70's and remember the rail line that ran beside the Rex cinema just south of the junction of Dewsbury Road and Old Lane.Spent many hours playing on those tracks.

[@Ralphplayzgames]

Great video as always. I lived on Parkwood road from when I was born in 1968 until 1978. Me and my brother used to sit on an old concrete signal post that had fallen over at Beeston junction train spotting. I can still remember the fantastic sound if the Deltics on the Kings Cross trains climbing the gradient out of Leeds. The track on the branch had all gone but the cutting was there and you could walk under the bridges. I remember it was always full of dumped rubbish. I remember walking the track bed many times to the bottom of Middleton Park.

[@chrismarshall3972]

Another excellent video. Thank you.

[@douglasfleetney5031]

Fantastic video, nice job with the old photos.

[@AdventureMe]

Many thanks!

[@granvillefoster6719]

More memories, my birth home was just of Belle Isle Road. The house still stands by the side of the motorway. Another great video and research.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for sharing!

[@russdixon614]

I remember the missing bridge, we used to play on the cutting in the mid 80's building dens etc, we watched them fill the whole cutting in and take away our playground 8-) There was no footpath bridge further towards Hunslet in the mid 80's it must have been removed much earlier,

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Russ.

[@johnlumley-moore2079]

Excellent .walked some of that track in 67/68...

[@suesmith4366]

Amazing explore I didn’t know anything about this area. Really enjoyed it 😎

[@AdventureMe]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Adventures_with_Sog]

Thanks for sharing this. It's really interesting to see and hear about local history. Yours, a local. 😊👍

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@stephenwarwick4180]

Darren, thoroughly enjoy these lost railway videos, keep them coming

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Stephen

[@aaronwilkinson8963]

You definitely do your homework and you know your stuff

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Aaron. I try my best.

[@seany84uk]

Another great series to look forward to! your channel is great!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks so much!

[@davidhodkinson5164]

Great thoroughly enjoyed , superimposed pics :brilliant :Must of taken a lot of time and effort . Thank you

[@AdventureMe]

Many thanks!

[@roll_credits6136]

Brilliant video! Looking forward to part 2!

[@AdventureMe]

Coming soon!

[@Endrju8287]

Great piece of history, Thank you 🙏🏻

[@AdventureMe]

Our pleasure!

[@notsohairybiker]

Fantastic vid today, keep em coming

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks, will do!

[@bustermustaffa6594]

Another amazing video keep up the great work

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks again!

[@kevinchamberlain5978]

I don't know the area at all, but for some reason I was fascinated by the video !

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Kevin

[@grahamchadwick5242]

Cracking video great photo overlays ill be back for part 2

[@AdventureMe]

Coming soon.

[@a11csc]

omg cant wait for part 2 super vid darren

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate. Coming soon.

[@a11csc]

@@AdventureMe hope to meet one day and do a find

[@northernbias4985]

Excellent video we used to ride bikes along the rail cutting from the Parkwood Estate all the way down to the Middleton Tip hills great memories.It might be worth looking into the history of old Belle Isle village which was where the Old Run Road is all that remains, my mother (92 now) used to live there as my great grand father worked at Middleton pit.The village was demolished in the late 60s I believe but the houses were unique and it was a true little community cut off by spoil heaps and railway lines.Keep up the great work.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Andrew, I covered the old Belle Isle village in my Middleton Park videos. Both on the channel if you haven't seen them.

[@waynehindle8885]

Excellent video, thanks Darren. My great-grandad worked at Miggy Pit and also my dad spent his childhood playing ( lakin as he says ) on and around the pit and woods. He also went to watch Hunslet rlfc at Parkside near where you was. Thanks again Darren, your videos are always well put together, educational and full of nostalgia.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bobingram6912]

10/10 as usual for the B&W fade ins, a lot of research to find those exact spots espesh as it's changed so dramatically. Bring on Part 2!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@antmerritt]

That’s mad! I drive along the alignment everyday on the 621. I love these videos for showing how much has changed in Leeds. Thankyou! 😁👍👊😎

[@AdventureMe]

More to come!

[@paulharmson297]

so informative keep it up !!well done,

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks a lot

[@bigmonkey999888]

Brilliant Darren thank you

[@MikesFoggyIdea]

Nice job with the overlays, It's amazing how much has changed.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Mike.

[@Natsmodels56]

Brilliant Darren xx 🎥😊

[@craigstringwell6058]

Cross fades between the old and current are brilliant, another great video Darren 👍🏼

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@fenso6664]

Always love your then and now shots. Perfect accuracy too!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks again!

[@johnspencer5295]

Really well-crafted shots of the current with photos from the past which brought the locations to life in a stunning way, making the video very accessible in an area I don't know that well. High-quality stuff, keep up the good work.

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you so much 😀

[@r44heliflyer]

Another excellent informative video, love the old & recent photo crossfades. Done many recent bike rides around this area.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@HobbiesAndSunshine]

Fantastic Darren, thanks.

[@AdventureMe]

Very welcome

[@terrigoddard3448]

Cracking vid. The line was more of a bypass for Leeds, than a branch line though. Because it ran through to Neville Hill depot ( East end park) As that part is still used to get to a stone terminal, not far from the old Cross Green pub. Keep up the good work, I just love those transition pics.

[@AdventureMe]

Cheers mate. Yeah the neville hill connection was later in its life though, it just terminated at the goods shed. It has so many names this line. I will mention neville Hill when I get to the second part, if I remember.

[@simontay4851]

Its good that at least a bit of it is still in use.

[@shauntodd7123]

Amazing to think how much we have lost. Great video.

[@AdventureMe]

Tell me about it

[@davidmarsden8008]

Great stuff

[@Mathewhickman]

Its crazy that there's so much history in leeds

[@AdventureMe]

Sure is. And I haven't even scratched the surface

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Live near here and interested in railway history. This is great. Good work!!

[@charlietaylor5726]

I never knew so much about my local area these videos are great

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Charlie.

[@charlietaylor5726]

You're welcome Darren I love your videos.

[@jeffreyhodge5564]

I watched a bfi film the other day called Fully Fitted freight about a freight service from Bristol to Leeds and onwards ,Hunslet yard is mentioned ,the service worked ,a little slower but we managed ,!

[@AdventureMe]

Brilliant. I have filmed it all now. Coming soon.

[@paulnutter1713]

As mentioned on your other vid the bridge was to the right of waincliffe garage and took you over the cutting into the parkwoods. We use to walk over it in 1979-80

[@chrispatton5925]

Love the video great to see where the railways of Leeds used to run.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@edwindodwell8831]

I agree fully with kay110, another fascinating video Darren. Well done.

[@AdventureMe]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@joshwhiteley2449]

Great video. I used to go to Cockburn school just up from the Southleighs, and I remember walking down that ginnel where the underpass was. I found about the railway line from my dad and I was always thought "eh, where would it be??". Just shows how much the landscape has changed! Looking forward to part 2.

[@charlietaylor5726]

I go to Cockburn now so I'm pretty familiar with the area

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the info!

[@neilcharlton456]

Hi Josh. I guess you're talking about the school site that was Parkside Secondary Modern on Gypsy Lane? When I went to Cockburn in the 1960s it was a mile and a half down Dewsbury Road, but the school playing field was next to that railway line. For cross country running we had to go up towards Middleton Woods, over the railway bridge and then round past the clearings and then back down. We often saw goods trains puffing up the track. Our old sports field disappeared in the John Charles South Leeds developments and my old school was demolished in 1970s but its name moved to Gypsy Lane.

[@joshwhiteley2449]

@@neilcharlton456 yeah that's the one! The railway line and the old Cockburn school were gone before I was born haha. It's good to hear stories from people who remember it .

[@carterfamilychannel]

I really enjoyed the old photo fades! the past always seems to be better than the current :( amazing channel keep up the good work!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks so much!

[@jetcat120]

That bridge over the A653. I worked at Waincliffe garage in the early 80’s and that line was not filled in then. That bridge in the Southleigh from memory was at the end of the road near kitson college.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the info.

[@DS_SPORT]

Great video i used to work in the Plastona warehouse on Wakefield road and this line used to pass through, there was talk of a ghost high up in the racks on the level of the line. Could you find out if anyone was killed on the line, this will probably be in part 2.

[@fatlad5090]

That's old Middleton tip my dad used tip on there in 80s

[@rontanser9369]

Thank you sir very interesting video did the guy who was with you enjoy coming round with you or did he get bored

[@AdventureMe]

He enjoyed himself. Just didn't want to be on camera lol

[@loubielou74]

I was only there on Tuesday near Tommy Wass’ I saw the gates and plaques. Both my grandparents lived in Middleton

[@AdventureMe]

Brilliant.

[@neilcharlton456]

During World War 2 the Hunslet goods line was very important strategically , as the railway companies realised a German bomb falling anywhere on the raised embankment or bridges feeding Leeds Central and Leeds City would have stopped all traffic in and out. The route to the south of the city centre via the goods line would have been a key diversion through to Beeston Junction and then onto the main London-Leeds line. Even to day a derailment on the raised approaches to Leeds causes a complete standstill.

[@NorthYorkshireCoastRail]

Love the before and after pictures, This was known locally as the Donkey line, By my family atleast

[@AdventureMe]

I won't ask why lol

[@DaveinLeeds]

Thanks for the video Darren, very enjoyable. Do you have a website where the videos could be listed? For example, if I wanted the Morley to Gildersome section of your seven part Ardsley/Pudsey exploration, it would be so much easier than trawling through KZbin in search of it.

[@AdventureMe]

If you go to my channel page, linked below and then choose "playlists". You will see if have ordered them by series. Hope that helps. kzbin.info

[@DaveinLeeds]

@@AdventureMe; Cheers, I've added it to favourites. Hope you got good use out of your LiveCash account!

[@AdventureMe]

@@DaveinLeeds I did, until the moved me to an adult account. Still using it today.

[@chriswalker619]

The Rex cinema also stood at the side of the line by Beeston bridge. Excellent video.

[@ABlackburn00]

Rex Hill. The road that goes up towards to Middleton Park Ring now.

[@peterbritton2495]

Remember going to the rex cinema when I was a child to watch a cowboy film good days

[@davidwilliamson5913]

My playground as a kid Remember the cutting nr dewsbury Rd right down to the steel viaduct at belle Isle. Before theJohn Charles Centre was built up they had a massive open cast pit. This was then the cou cil tip to fill it back up then landscaped

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks David.

[@wendywhittingham3045]

Good video I walk this rout a lot with my dog and seen you Monday doing this video just near the sports centre

[@AdventureMe]

Ahh I think I remember you. You should have said hi.

[@wendywhittingham3045]

@@AdventureMe yeah you was kinda busy I was walking past with my husband I looked down and said to him ohhhh that's adventure me at the time I didn't know you had company until I saw the video we never got chat with you as you where making your video but maybe another time if we see you out and about in leeds 😊

[@AdventureMe]

@@wendywhittingham3045 Ahh that's a shame. I'm always up for a chat. I think James had left at that point.

[@wendywhittingham3045]

@@AdventureMe yeah like wise maybe next time if we see you again out and about no he hadn’t gone by then he was at the top of the hill with his bike you where a little further down filming

[@deantate2468]

Great video. I've just been reading about a triple murder that happened in 1680 at the house of the Rev Leonard Scurr which is marked on the ordnance survey map at six minutes into the video (6.00) It's marked Scurr's House in the bottom left of the map, just below the Hunslet Goods railway track. Mr Scurr was murdered along with his aged mother and a maid in January 1680. The culprits were caught and hanged and then hung in chains on Holbeck Moor in 1682 in front of a crowd of 30,000 spectators. Mabey you could do a video on this local history in the future sometime. Thanks.

[@patrickbagnano1561]

Anther great video for my Sunday morning coffee. I love old British canals and railroads they are fascinating. Is your friend James from the states? I realized he had a New York Mets baseball winter hat on. Let’s Go Mets!

[@AdventureMe]

No he's not. Probably just a fan. Thanks for watching.

[@dennisnicholson8073]

Great video as always. I live on Southleigh Road and everyone of us paid £75 for the land. Bargain. The land fill you mentioned was the old Middleton Colliery. Played all around there as a child. Keep up the good work. Cheers

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Dennis. That is a bargain. And a piece of history in your garden.

[@dennisnicholson8073]

@@AdventureMe yes and I remember the underpass at bottom of the street.

[@ABlackburn00]

Excellent adventure again. The use of overlays really help. I know this area very well but even I was a bit disoriented from the Beeston Junction towards JCCS (stadium) now the Southleighs estate is there. In the black and white near the end, on the right hand side is that the old Hunslet RLFC ground ? Looks like a small stadium/sports arena ?

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate. Yes the original hunslet ground.

[@Lukeashley2323]

Hey Darren at the hunslet end the line still runs from what is now the cement terminal to a junction at Neville Hill train Depot where i work iv seen a few trains go down the branch for time to time over the years but i am led to beleave there is a once a week cement train goes down the branch as i often watch them run into the old carriage siddings across from Neville Hill to run round the train.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes there was one there last week parked up.

[@elliotdavies8815]

Just noticed one other thing if you go to Google maps on street view on your computer/laptop you can look at different dates if you go to the 2008 view where the old bridge and plaque is you can see the original bridge before they made changes to the road layout.

[@MoeLarrycurly1]

So kool 🖖🏼🍺 🚂

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Moe.

[@thebollock9427]

One worth looking at mate...... Wrangbrook junction. Check it out

[@headshunt2085]

Fascinating stuff. If I may say so, I think your presentation method has benefitted from your collaboration with Martin Zero.

[@AdventureMe]

I hope so!

[@jasinere35]

funny how i was in the area yesterday & on the A639 is the remains of the railway bridge & someone asked what the round wall was next to canal we both know that was the turret of the swingbridge which still has all its mechanics inside even thou the bridge has long gone more useful info for you did you know the swing bridge never moved it was designed for tall ships to pass but none ever came to leeds so the swing bridge never moved

[@AdventureMe]

Yes that's true. I will be covering it in part 2.

[@orbitboi63]

Hello. Can you tell me please the track that is being played when you are showing the old formation where the juncation was. Thanks

[@AdventureMe]

It's one from the KZbin library. It's called "the golden present".

[@orbitboi63]

@@AdventureMe Thanks for that.. Keep up the good work. Keith from NZ.

[@Wedgedoow]

Lovely video Darren did you put the subtitles on or have I pressed something by mistake.?

[@AdventureMe]

Must be your fingers lol. I don't need to put them on as KZbin does is for me, but you have to turn it on. It will be in the settings when you play the video.

[@flangewaffle]

Really good superimposing. Also use Britain from above website (free) some great aerials of industrial Leeds.

[@robbiecass6283]

Great stuff, could you do a video on the Pickle Bridge Line that used to run through Clifton and Wyke over the viaducts?

[@AdventureMe]

Great suggestion!

[@AdventureMe]

I will get there eventually, do you know much about it?

[@robbiecass6283]

@@AdventureMe afraid not, I’ve just always been interested in the history of it, there’s still the big viaduct standing

[@AdventureMe]

@@robbiecass6283 Thanks. I'll look into it.

[@mickd6942]

Subbed

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you

[@Gregdotgreg]

Ah - how did you know the Middleton Railway wasn't operating any trains the day you went?

[@AdventureMe]

It's closed lol. They have only been operating Sundays this year. I did a video on it a few weeks ago, still to be released on the channel.

[@simontay4851]

I would like to watch that video. Im glad they haven't pulled up the track even though its closed.

[@AdventureMe]

@@simontay4851 It will be open again next year. Its just closed due to the pandemic. The video will be up this coming Sunday.

[@fatlad5090]

Kushty video