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Whelley line being lifted
Photo: Baldylocks
Photo: Baldylocks
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Item #: 18214
Item #: 18214
The last portion of what was the whelley loop line gets lifted in december 1988.
this photo was taken from warrington road overbridge at what was platt bridge junction.
This last portion of the whelley line (about 600 yards worth)remained as a headshunt line for access to the old CWS glassworks.
The headshunt terminated at a stop block behind spring view cricket ground,(behind the photographer).
This picture is looking towards the WCML & the bridge that carried the bickershaw pit line near the token station.
Sorry for the poor quality of the photo,the weather that morning was just terrible with poor light & thick freezing fog.
I was just passing & had one frame left in a battered old instamatic camera when i got this shot.
At least i was able to record something of it disappearing.
this photo was taken from warrington road overbridge at what was platt bridge junction.
This last portion of the whelley line (about 600 yards worth)remained as a headshunt line for access to the old CWS glassworks.
The headshunt terminated at a stop block behind spring view cricket ground,(behind the photographer).
This picture is looking towards the WCML & the bridge that carried the bickershaw pit line near the token station.
Sorry for the poor quality of the photo,the weather that morning was just terrible with poor light & thick freezing fog.
I was just passing & had one frame left in a battered old instamatic camera when i got this shot.
At least i was able to record something of it disappearing.
Comment by: aitch on 7th August 2011 at 10:37
The bridge still remains, as well as a section of the banking, but everything else has gone, and a question ?? did there used to be allotments to the left of this shot, just before the the bridge over the main road. ??
Comment by: Colin Harlow on 7th August 2011 at 11:21
Poor quality as you say Baldylocks, but good enough to see. If you were to take the same shot today, you'd see a overgrown dirty filthy mess and the bridge hidden with out of control trees.
Aitch..yes allotments to the left.
Comment by: Baldylocks on 7th August 2011 at 13:28
There used to be allotments just to the left Aitch,but i think that they had all gone when i took this (poor) photo.
Comment by: Aitch on 7th August 2011 at 16:22
re the allotments, did Tommy Harrison have one of the allotments in that spot, I seem to remember him pottering about there
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