Who remembers Yeadon Midland Station

 

The only evidence are the bridge abutments and

the Station pub

A similar view just before reconstruction

Bradford Midland Railway

The new Foster Square station is situated just about

where the bridge is seen in this old picture of the

original Midland Station

 

Bradford Midland

Just as I remember it

 

Addingham, Yorkshire Dales Railway

And why not the other way

 

 

Addingham would undoubtedly benefit

Embsay Bolton Abbey Railway

So tantalisingly close. Come on Network rail

 

Embsay Junction

I hope in the very near future we shall see this

Junction restored

 

 

 

GWR Large Prairie

They must have been a close competitor to the Ivats

 

L&Y Hospital train

Well fitted out with Pharmacy

 

 

Operating theatre's and such

 

They could carry many wounded soldiers

 

Here especially dressed for the public to view

 

Sadly so many men died where they fell

 

So never made it as far as even a dressing station

let alone a hospital train. Though that was not for

 the want of trying by casualty parties. That war,

simply a slaughter of the flower of our young

people and that was true of all the belligerent

nations

 

All the dead and wounded regardless of side

are the victims of war

Bradford Exchange Station Ambulance train

All the major railway companies built or converted

carriages to ambulance trains during WW1 for the

transport of casualties from the battle fields of

France. In cities and towns where the 'Pals'

brigades had been formed such trains

were put on show by way of trying

reassure families that their loved

ones who volunteered would be

cared for.

 

 

They were very popular viewing sessions as can be

here at Exchange station

 

Sadly of course the Bradford Pals were decimated

On the first day of July 1916 on the battle field we

call the Somme

Addingham station

On what is now the Yorkshire Dales Bolton Abbey

Railway, Addingham was the station down from

Bolton Abbey. The track bed still remains to the

west of Addingham through to Bolton Abbey

However a key bridge has been demolished

so a new Addingham station would have

to be a little further west and would

be the end of the line

 

SR 'City of Wells' at Bradford Foster Sq

A visit from restored Southern 'Battle of Britain'

Pacific 'City of Wells' from it's Keighley Worth Valley

home base on a main line special, seen here at Bradford

Foster Square station. Previously this had been

Bradford 'Midland Station'  and before that

Bradford 'Market Street Station'

 

 

A saw City of Wells last spring now almost ready

and we should hopefully be seeing her back in steam

very soon indeed now.

A wet day at Bradford Exchange

LMS Tank with the Leeds local

 

 

Removal of the glass during WWII meant it rained

on all but the waiting area beyond the barriers