Bradford Exchange

The area below shows where massive excavations in the 

1850's lead the way for the new Exchange Station. Before

then the railways had to pass through a series of tunnels 

on the approach to the terminus. Always thick with smoke

and most unhealthy for crews, particularly those on shunting

and empty stock workings. The area cleared had some

of the worst slums of the nineteenth century. Known as 

Broomfields as is still the area to the east of the retaining 

wall