Queensbury : NIgel Callaghan  website - www.pullman-publications.co.uk

I am compiling a CD in the form of a database.  This lists canal and railway tunnels, including those in-service, disused, and those that have been obliterated by either infilling, earthing over or opening-out.   www.pullman-publications.co.uk

 

This is a fascinating area and I really wonder just how many people fully realise the importance of Queensbury Triangle Station as a site of fascinating railway architecture and heritage.

 

Sadly absolutely nothing now remains of this place, as uncontrolled landfill has taken place over many years and almost nothing at all remains of the Triangle.

 

I would dearly have loved to have visited this place when it was thriving and in its heyday, it had so much to offer.

 

A triangular Station (one of only two in the entire country) each converging line had a signal box controlling entry into the station, each of the three lines leaving the station entered a lengthy tunnel or a series of tunnels, one of the station platforms was immediately above a viaduct.

 

The station itself was high in the Pennines and quite some distance from the town of Queensbury that it served.  It would have been wonderful to have seen the station at night, all lit-up with gaslights.  Also close by and running through the triangle complex was Briggs' Tramway a rope hauled colliery tramway.

 

NIgel Callaghan