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| Hilton House signal box and station - then and now |
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| Photo: Dave Taylor Item #: 15721 |
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Kindly provided by my signaman friend Harry Gardner, this is a "then and now" taken from the same spot as item No. 15719. The later pic taken by Harry around the late eighties/early nineties. |
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| Comments by ROBERT, 5th September 2010 |
| CAN'T FIGER OUT WHERE THIS IS.... PLEASE HELP. |
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| Comments by SJB, 5th September 2010 |
That's the A6 road going over the railway bridge Robert. It's where Georgian House is near Aspull/Blackrod. Go through Aspull, past the war memorial on the island straight across and straight on down Scot Lane - turn right at the end of Scot Lane and you come to traffic lights on the A6. Turn right again and Georgian House is almost immediately on the left - and the photo is just after that.
The big detached building in both photos is right on the roadside - there's a small section of stone bridge wall still there next to it. |
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| Comments by Andrew Lomax, 5th September 2010 |
| Progress :-) |
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| Comments by sjb, 7th September 2010 |
Progress indeed Andrew
I regularly travel to Tyldesley from Wigan through Hindley - a journey I could have taken by train 50 years ago. Instead, thanks to successive government policies over that period, I spend a good portion of that time sat in a seemingly continuous traffic jam. |
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| Comments by Steve Worthington, 8th September 2010 |
| And in a cruel twist of irony, virtually all of the track bed is still there. |
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| Comments by Robert, 22nd June 2018 |
The signalman's name is Jack Clarke.
He's collecting the signal box water ration that was delivered by loco along with the ration for H&B Branch Junction. |
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