Model Railways

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 16th

I had a walk round to see how far they’ve got
Not very, but, there’ll be a lot of planning/searching out old plans for it
One of the chaps there, told me that plans are to also include the cast-iron/grade 1 listed Aquaduct that carries the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal over the River Calder
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2327530
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/422844

To get the bearings for the initial baseboard, here's a map; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.8&lat=53.70247&lon=-1.46328&layers=168&b=1&o=100

 

[wiggydiggy]

Friday 16th

I had a walk round to see how far they’ve got
Not very, but, there’ll be a lot of planning/searching out old plans for it
One of the chaps there, told me that plans are to also include the cast-iron/grade 1 listed Aquaduct that carries the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal over the River Calder
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2327530
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/422844

To get the bearings for the initial baseboard, here's a map; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.8&lat=53.70247&lon=-1.46328&layers=168&b=1&o=100

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I did a search on old maps and I can get an idea of how that is orientated. Those line would run in from the West from Lofthouse Colliery and they straddle the basin either side.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sid...70270&lon=-1.46199&layers=225&right=ESRIWorld

I used the OS 1:1 million to 1:2,500, 1900s map