Halifax - Lost Railway

This video covers from North Bridge to Queensbury tunnel
The original company was The Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway, incorporated on 30th June 1864
The L&Y & the GNR each subscribed one third of the cost & would work the line jointly.
The section of line between Holmfield & Queensbury involved heavy excavation work Strines cutting & the Queensbury tunnel

[@Jaysonc35]

watching this makes me fill with sadness, Halifax the town of my birth and many of my family are still there. Heartbreaking to see such a wonderful town with a lot of genuine history for the world be broken apart for what we call progress. Hope to visit there again some day.

[@grahambennett8151]

Heart-breaking. No less.

[@kevinwalton4538]

Brilliant thank you.

[@fatlad5090]

its madness closing all these lines down all before beeching axe. It would be great If all these railways were still here. This was the start of the south destroying the North

[@gwilymselwood]

This could still be turned into an incredible cycle way and there is government money

[@peterkuleczko348]

Short sightedness once again at it's finest.. we continue to make a mess of the foundations made by our ancestors. This being a prime example of infrastructure removed only for 50 years to pass for it to be wanted once more. This would cost tax payer millions to build nowadays should we attempt to rebuild it 😢

[@bob-sb2zu]

Ruined by compressing the photographs down !!