Wigan Album

No, it's Ince Moss coll which was at the bottom of Cemetery Rd across the tracks from Springs Branch shed.
I've seen the pic before.

Very few pics of Ince Moss seem to exist, so I'm glad to see this one. I would like to add it to our parish archive of local pics, perhaps to use in a future Parish Calendar.

I printed a copy of this pic out to show folks at church this morning - and to verify if this is the loco they knew from their childhood as 'Puffing Billy', which used to run wagons up the Crow Orchard branch line eastwards off the WCML between Cemetery Road and Westwood Lane bridges, to the Land Sales yard behind Warrington Road (where the pensioners' bungalows are now, in Winstanley Place). Until a year or so ago two sections of rail were visible in the surface of Westwood Lane, where it crossed when passing along Eaton Terrace. I wonder if there's a shot of an engine at that point?