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Underground & Hidden Leeds
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: Disco Matt on February 25, 2008, 16:33:35 ---Despite never having been to Leeds I've just spent an hour wandering around that site - interesting to see that you still have the old tram lines there, just covered over by a layer of tarmac. The norm in Britain seems to have been to dig them all out, as opposed to a few cities in the USA where you can apparently still see exposed bits of track in odd corners.
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Roundhay Park still has the iron poles that held the tram cables at the old terminus on Princes Avenue.
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: Bush Tucker Man on February 25, 2008, 18:19:27 ---
--- Quote from: Disco Matt on February 25, 2008, 16:33:35 ---Despite never having been to Leeds I've just spent an hour wandering around that site - interesting to see that you still have the old tram lines there, just covered over by a layer of tarmac. The norm in Britain seems to have been to dig them all out, as opposed to a few cities in the USA where you can apparently still see exposed bits of track in odd corners.
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Roundhay Park still has the iron poles that held the tram cables at the old terminus on Princes Avenue.
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Found one of the terminus, now the car-park ;)
link & location
dreadnought110:
--- Quote from: Bush Tucker Man on February 22, 2008, 23:50:27 ---
--- Quote from: dreadnought110 on February 22, 2008, 22:03:20 ---I keep looking up the history of the Great central Railway and trying to follow the remains on google earth it's interesting... :) Honest....
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I'd be interested in it. Honest
(& I mean that!)
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I bought a book on then and now it's so amazing how they eradicated all signs of the railway in places check it out if you ever have the opertunity.. :)
Disco Matt:
Wow - amazed that the poles have survived complete! Wonder how far down the tracks are buried? Anyone fancy a bit of digging? :lol:
dreadnought110:
Outside where i work in leicester on the A50 we had a burst water main when they dug the road up the tramlines and cobbles where under the tarmac... also the bridge had some work done on it a few years ago and i went underneath it. It's actually made up of 2 bridges the old one inthe middle was in perfect nick the outer extensions was rotting terrable!!!! :oops:
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