What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The UK’s most comfortable rail seat system ever tested – the new, British-made, 100% recyclable EcoSeat™ – has been unveiled at a demonstration launch event at the University of Huddersfield’s train simulator, with rail industry experts in attendance. The new commuter rail seat has been designed and developed by Beeston-based
Network Rail has announced that it is to carry out “vital vegetation management” work between May 2023 and March 2024 along the railway between Ardsley tunnel and Leeds on the Wakefield line and is holding two information events to explain the scope of the work. They say the number, size
Plans for the development of Britain’s new high speed railway between the Midlands and the North moved a step closer today (11 October 2018), as HS2 Ltd revealed more detailed design proposals. Construction of the Phase One route between Birmingham and London is now well underway with 7,000 jobs already
A fire at MBS Autocare on Parkfield Street at the top of Dewsbury Road is being treated as a suspected arson attack. The fire was reported at about 1am on Wednesday (19 July 2017). The fire was started in a pile of tyres on railway banking at the back of
What do you do with a 144 year old unused railway viaduct? According to a group that met recently in Holbeck, you put a park on it. The viaduct snakes through Holbeck crossing Water Lane and Sweet Street, then across the bottom of Domestic Street and the Ingram Distributor
As we’ve reported on this week’s big launch of the Middleton Life local history project today, we thought it’d be nice to share a video we found on Youtube on Middleton Railway. The video is from an 8mm silent cine film showing what things were like on the railway over 40
Cottingley resident Nigel Keer, who last year sprang to national fame in the press and on TV as the ‘naked rambler’ after receiving a court fine for tramping around Otley Chevin wearing nothing but a baseball cap, boots and a backpack, has launched a campaign for better train services on his estate. Nigel
I was very annoyed this morning to read that metal thieves have struck at Middleton Railway station (www.middletonrailway.org.uk) crippling the trains from running a full timetable. For a theft worth just £30 in scrap metal, an estimated £30,000 worth of damage/lost takings has been caused. Middleton Railway is a fantastic local