18B Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Hi, could I ask please which Leeds station this is? Th pic dates from May 1963. TIA 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 65179 Posted October 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2021 Looks like Leeds City station with City House being built in the background. Simon 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 The existing one 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 It's City station. The giveaway is the shape of the roof, made up of straight segments ( there's a photo showing it well in the station's Wikipedia article, in the section headed "1938 rebuilding"). Leeds Central, which was still open when your photo was taken (closed in 1967), had a series of pretty modest pitched roofs over the platforms. Jim 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomag Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 (edited) The photo was taken on the old P9 (now 12?) of a Class 124 in P8 (now 11?), just west of the current overbridge Edited October 16, 2021 by Bomag Typo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2021 There are numerous giveaways in the picture - the shape of the old roof, the office block going up alongside, and the design of the signal gantry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted October 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2021 3 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: There are numerous giveaways in the picture - the shape of the old roof, the office block going up alongside, and the design of the signal gantry. And the dmu Trans Pennine at the platform. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
18B Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 Thank you for everyone's help, I've written the following caption to go with the pic..... If the first decade of BR can be summed up as more of the same, the second was one of complete change. One aspect BR was finally getting to grips with was the duplication of major stations in large cities. Leeds for example had a duplication of major stations and bringing the services together to one combined station gave a much-improved passenger experience. Seen here is one of the elegant Class 123 Transpenine units at Leeds City station, with City House being built in the background. Remodelling of the routes around Leeds meant services from Leeds Central could be diverted into the Leeds City allowing Central to be closed from Monday 1 May 1967 and later demolished. At the time Leeds’ City station rebuilding it was served by some 500 trains on a typical day, with 2.75 million passenger journeys a year and after the works Leeds City station lost it suffix to simply become Leeds. It now sees over 30M passenger per annum making it the UK’s 13th busiest station. SLSL/LANCE KING COLLECTION Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted October 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2021 (edited) It's a class 124 Trans-Pennine unit. The cl.123 were the Inter-City units with end gangways. Edited October 16, 2021 by keefer 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomag Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 As a user of Leeds City from the early 1970's I would dispute it being a 'much improved' passenger service - cleaner yes - but the underpass was grim and getting frozen on Platform 12 waiting for the Nightrider was grim. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 12 hours ago, Bomag said: As a user of Leeds City from the early 1970's I would dispute it being a 'much improved' passenger service - cleaner yes - but the underpass was grim and getting frozen on Platform 12 waiting for the Nightrider was grim. I agree. But we did have locos in & out in those days. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted October 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 17, 2021 12 hours ago, keefer said: It's a class 124 Trans-Pennine unit. The cl.123 were the Inter-City units with end gangways. Thanks for giving it its proper….but retrospectively applied…..classification. In 1961 when first introduced they were deemed to be the cutting edge in dmu UK technology. One of my more unusual spotting trips that year was from Wolverhampton High Level ( (MR) …..In those days,Kings were still working from the WR Low Level….to Manchester Piccadilly aka London Road via Class 40 to Crewe and 25Kv ac onwards to Manchester. A brisk long walk across the city brought me to Victoria/Exchange to catch the TP to Leeds via Huddersfield. The only thing I can remember is that it was cramped and the ride wasn’t particularly special. Leeds City was a fascinating place then,it being in the transition period between steam and diesel with a wide variety of motive power and dmu to be seen. Leeds Central was not too far….quite small as I recall with platforms a little too short….and the first Deltics were to be seen. The station was run down and shabby,yet it still offered the quickest route to London and The Queen of Scots still ran,albeit EE type 4 ( Class 40 ) hauled. The return journey was interesting as it involved dmu for the entire journey. First to Huddersfield. Change there for Stalybridge,then change the for the short lap to Stockport. The last leg was on a Birmingham RC&W 3 car dmu ( Later Class 104) on a Manchester- New Street working via Stoke and Stafford. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Ian Hargrave said: Thanks for giving it its proper….but retrospectively applied…..classification. In 1961 when first introduced they were deemed to be the cutting edge in dmu UK technology. One of my more unusual spotting trips that year was from Wolverhampton High Level ( (MR) …..In those days,Kings were still working from the WR Low Level….to Manchester Piccadilly aka London Road via Class 40 to Crewe and 25Kv ac onwards to Manchester. A brisk long walk across the city brought me to Victoria/Exchange to catch the TP to Leeds via Huddersfield. The only thing I can remember is that it was cramped and the ride wasn’t particularly special. Leeds City was a fascinating place then,it being in the transition period between steam and diesel with a wide variety of motive power and dmu to be seen. Leeds Central was not too far….quite small as I recall with platforms a little too short….and the first Deltics were to be seen. The station was run down and shabby,yet it still offered the quickest route to London and The Queen of Scots still ran,albeit EE type 4 ( Class 40 ) hauled. The return journey was interesting as it involved dmu for the entire journey. First to Huddersfield. Change there for Stalybridge,then change the for the short lap to Stockport. The last leg was on a Birmingham RC&W 3 car dmu ( Later Class 104) on a Manchester- New Street working via Stoke and Stafford. The ride on the TransPennie sets probably depended on which vehicle you travelled in so if you had one with engines under the floor it would perhaps have been different from the unpowered trailers? I didn't find them too bad because the unpowered vehicles were basically a Mk1 gangwayed coach formed into a DMU set although using the Swindon designed version of the bogie which didn't seem to suit the route. The final Swindon Inter-City sets with the gangwayed outer ends were much smoother riding (possibly helped by the high standard of WR track mainrtenance in thise days because they were in BR bogies although they were mechanically unreliable. However I commuted on them for well over a year and never suffered a delay due to a failure of the train. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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