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Having been brought up near to the Queensbury lines in Bradford, I have always wanted to model one of the stations on this line. The obvious choice is Great Horton on the original Bradford & Thornton Railway which was just round the back of our house where we lived which had a bank of coal drops, large stone built goods shed, a passenger station with wrought iron and glass canopy. The surrounding rugged industrial West Riding landscape had a couple of mills and terraced housing close by.

 

Another potential candidate is Denholme station on the later GNR extension to Keighley which has to be the ideal compact station layout for modellers having a tunnel at each end of the station!

 

The picture below typifies the 'Queensbury Lines' in the latter days of operation with a run down appearance, unkempt locos and lack of traffic. On the 21st October 1963 WD 90054 of Low Moor Shed is seen running towards the Queensbury end of Clayton Tunnel on its way towards Bradford after shunting Thornton Yard with a solitary brake van in tow.

 
A wonderfully evocative colour image from the camera of D.J. Mitchell which appears in the full colour book - GREAT NORTHERN OUTPOST Vol 1. The Bradford & Thornton Railway.
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I am aware of a group of modellers who are recreating Clayton station in miniature but was wondering if anyone else is building (or planning) a layout based on a location on the Queensbury lines.

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Sasquatch of this parish is building Queensbury itself. Use the search function to find the thread.

 

Edit to add: Only marginally on this network of lines but there was also a thread started on building a layout of Halifax North Bridge.

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I bought that book at the Wigan Exhibition a few weeks ago - a very good book indeed, and I look forward to Vol 2.

 

The GN lines in the West Riding are very interesting and modelable - i've thought about it many times. Back in the late 60's we were in the family car near Halifax and I remember seeing this line around Ovenden being dismantled. I renamed my TT gauge layout "Halifax Ovenden" though the real thing never had Brits, castles and merchant Navy's steaming through !!

 

Research / info on these lines back then was difficult / non existent. Not so now with several books available, and many sites on the net.

 

 

 

 

 

And of course this excellent site you can spend hours on

 

http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/

 

Queensbury lines here

 

http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Queensbury.htm

 

Shame these lines did not make it to the modern era.

 

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Hello there.

Have you discovered the Queensbury lines facebook-page . Packed with photos and great snipets of information. 

 

I'm also planning on building half of Bradford Exchange station. It is all very much in its infancy despite two years of procrastination.

You'll find everything on my Goathland thread (link below) or try googling Queensbury/sasquatch.

 

Regards Shaun.  

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Not sure if this is the right place but I  took the family for  a new years walk starting from Queensbury station walking along the track bed towards Wellhead tunnel. Now a bridleway. Still a fair bit of railway left to look at and good fun. Will put a couple of pics up when I get the chance. 

https://www.sustrans.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/files/Great%20North%20Trail%202012.pdf

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Not the best pictures but I had to dump the sky to get the exposure better on my phone. Had the battery not been flat there would have been more. Going back with a camera next time!

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What a fab pic 

 

 

Having been brought up near to the Queensbury lines in Bradford, I have always wanted to model one of the stations on this line. The obvious choice is Great Horton on the original Bradford & Thornton Railway which was just round the back of our house where we lived which had a bank of coal drops, large stone built goods shed, a passenger station with wrought iron and glass canopy. The surrounding rugged industrial West Riding landscape had a couple of mills and terraced housing close by.

 

Another potential candidate is Denholme station on the later GNR extension to Keighley which has to be the ideal compact station layout for modellers having a tunnel at each end of the station!

 

The picture below typifies the 'Queensbury Lines' in the latter days of operation with a run down appearance, unkempt locos and lack of traffic. On the 21st October 1963 WD 90054 of Low Moor Shed is seen running towards the Queensbury end of Clayton Tunnel on its way towards Bradford after shunting Thornton Yard with a solitary brake van in tow.

 
A wonderfully evocative colour image from the camera of D.J. Mitchell which appears in the full colour book - GREAT NORTHERN OUTPOST Vol 1. The Bradford & Thornton Railway.
Available from:
 
I am aware of a group of modellers who are recreating Clayton station in miniature but was wondering if anyone else is building (or planning) a layout based on a location on the Queensbury lines.

 

What a fab pic that is!

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Queensberry tunnel.


Highways England want to block up.  An action group and local authorities want to retain and eventually convert for cycle use.  Plenty to read about it at links below but their idea seems logical!  

 

Action group website:

http://www.queensburytunnel.org.uk/index.shtml

and their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/queensburytunnel

 

A petition to sign if you agree with their views: //www.change.org/p/securing-a-beneficial-future-for-queensbury-tunnel

 

Apologies if this is too political or if there is already a thread about it.  I did search for RMweb and Queensberry tunnel on Google and this seemed the most logical thread.

 

I found out about it from the EMgauge 1970s website update: 

https://emgauge70s.co.uk/model_omwb160.html

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