Wigan Album

So much nostalgia. Great.

UpHolland Station still had oil lamps in the early 1970s, there is nothing left of the old station buildings now.

An unidentified Stanier black five is about to stop at Upholland Station. This will be a Liverpool Exchange to destinations to Wigan and beyond. The down home signal indicates that a train is due on the other platform; possibly an express train to Exchange. The black five will shortly leave the station and enter Upholland tunnel with the next stop being at Orrell. Lovely picture before the building of Skelmersdale new town blighted the surrounding countryside.

I wish I'd have been born in the 1940s. What a great era the 50s and 60s must have been, not just railways but everything.

Aye, good days lost for ever.

For two years I caught the 8-30ish from Orrell to Exchange 1967-69 passing through Upholland.A great photo and again great info from you J.

Alex, there was World War Two going on in the 40's...

Studying this picture again, I would say that is taken in the early fifties; the station lamps seem to indicate that this could be so. The engine number plate is a five figure one; post nationalisation in 1948 replacing the four figure LMS version with a prefix of '4'.

OK Loz, I was speaking metaphorically, just for you, 1945 then.

Loz/Alex. If you were born in the early thirties, you certainly appreciated the continued better conditions of every day life, but now it has reached a stage, where I am not so sure.