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Manningham MPD, Bradford
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There are people on here with better local knowledge, but Manningham station was just north of Queens Road (one of the link roads to Canal Rd is called Station Rd), so the shed was. But much of that area was covered with railway facilities.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5540/10559087615_9bd94bd59a_o.jpg
This photo should do nicely!
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This photo should do nicely!
Bevan Price
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See
http://locosheds.co.uk/index.php?n=Sheds.MANNINGHAM
and
http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/manningham-loco-sheds-and-station.html
Shed was next to station.
http://locosheds.co.uk/index.php?n=Sheds.MANNINGHAM
and
http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/manningham-loco-sheds-and-station.html
Shed was next to station.
steammemories
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The site of the retail park was the Valley Rd Goods Depot. The site of the loco sheds was some half a mile north from there next to Manningham station. You can see lots of pictures of the sheds on http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/
It used to be a quite a huge site in the days when Bradford was known as Worstedopolis as the centre of the worlds woollen manufacturing industry.
Do get back to me of you need any more information.
Phil
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I have added some ariel pictures of Valley Rd and Manningham to the page
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?b...posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=113;src=link
It used to be a quite a huge site in the days when Bradford was known as Worstedopolis as the centre of the worlds woollen manufacturing industry.
Do get back to me of you need any more information.
Phil
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I have added some ariel pictures of Valley Rd and Manningham to the page
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?b...posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=113;src=link
Ploughman
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Try this site
http://www.railuk.info/steam/getshed.php?id=119
http://www.railuk.info/steam/getshed.php?id=119
steammemories
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Many thanks for that Ploughman. Yours shows the site as it is now, sadly the station is now a derelict stone yard. However the site if the Loco sheds is now a modern thriving industrial estate and one or two specialist retail outlets one of which is Frizinghall model railways, always worth a visit.
There are a lots more pictures of how it was on the blog http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/
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I have just posted pictures of Manningham shed in it's heyday. The shed plate was the original number allocated to Manningham but as dieselisation took hold then the shed at Hammerton St, formerly known as Bradford Bowling Shed took that number too, so from 1957 to 1967 the shed plate was only used on engines shedded at Manningham but from 1967 on to 1973 it also referred to engines shedded at Hammerton St which had become the diesel and diesel electric home shed for Bradford and district.
http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/manningham-sheds-in-their-heyday.html
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I have dug out a couple more showing Manningham junction and the signal box which controlled traffic on the main line into and through Manningham station and Manningham engine sheds. It was always a great point of interest to we boys as we passed on our way to Ilkley where we would spend the day at the lido.
http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/manningham-junction-midland-railway.html
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Manningham was of course but one MPD serving the city of Bradford. There were of course many railways, GNR, LNER, Midland, LMS and of course the first railway to serve the city, the Lancashire and Yorkshire. There were three MPD's namely Low Moor, Hammerton St also known as Bowling and of course Manningham. I was born in Thornton and moved in my early years to Great Horton and my family used the Queensbury lines. My mothers family were Ovenden People which was served by the same Queensbury lines.
I have published much about the Queensbury lines on my blog.
There are a lots more pictures of how it was on the blog http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
I have just posted pictures of Manningham shed in it's heyday. The shed plate was the original number allocated to Manningham but as dieselisation took hold then the shed at Hammerton St, formerly known as Bradford Bowling Shed took that number too, so from 1957 to 1967 the shed plate was only used on engines shedded at Manningham but from 1967 on to 1973 it also referred to engines shedded at Hammerton St which had become the diesel and diesel electric home shed for Bradford and district.
http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/manningham-sheds-in-their-heyday.html
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
I have dug out a couple more showing Manningham junction and the signal box which controlled traffic on the main line into and through Manningham station and Manningham engine sheds. It was always a great point of interest to we boys as we passed on our way to Ilkley where we would spend the day at the lido.
http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/manningham-junction-midland-railway.html
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Manningham was of course but one MPD serving the city of Bradford. There were of course many railways, GNR, LNER, Midland, LMS and of course the first railway to serve the city, the Lancashire and Yorkshire. There were three MPD's namely Low Moor, Hammerton St also known as Bowling and of course Manningham. I was born in Thornton and moved in my early years to Great Horton and my family used the Queensbury lines. My mothers family were Ovenden People which was served by the same Queensbury lines.
I have published much about the Queensbury lines on my blog.
steammemories
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I have just added two more wider views of Bradford showing Manningham loco sheds on
http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/ The pictures show the relatively flat valley along Canal Rd. The Bradford canal was of course the first conduit of mass transport to the city of Bradford and was superseded by the coming of the railway in the late 1830's. All of it has now disappeared, only the short arm at Windhill can be seen where the Midland Railway (originally the Leeds and Bradford joint railway) and the Great Northern line to Thackley, Idle, Eccleshill and on to Laisterdyke via Quarry gap, crossed the canal.
http://steammemories.blogspot.co.uk/ The pictures show the relatively flat valley along Canal Rd. The Bradford canal was of course the first conduit of mass transport to the city of Bradford and was superseded by the coming of the railway in the late 1830's. All of it has now disappeared, only the short arm at Windhill can be seen where the Midland Railway (originally the Leeds and Bradford joint railway) and the Great Northern line to Thackley, Idle, Eccleshill and on to Laisterdyke via Quarry gap, crossed the canal.
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