Wigan Album
Wigan North West Station
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Photo: Peter Cooper
Item #: 7467
Great photograph of the old North Western station. Iron Duke was one of the first Brits that I copped when I started spotting in 1964.
Lovely pic. When North Western looked like a proper railway station!
Great pic - keep em comin'
It looks like the young lad on the right has his fingers in his ears. I remember those steam engines being very noisy and the whole platform seemed to shake but it all added to the drama. Great photos Peter.
it looks like wigan wallgate to me?
Hang on John, it can't be. It's the same train goin south - photographed on the second picture - further down the line.
However, I've got to admit, it looks similar; the the curve of the line (slightly curving right) towards the top left of the picture, confirms that it's NW. The Wallgate curve goes left...
Hang on, lads,
This DOES look more like Wallgate...NW was more spread out??
It's definitely North Western. The caption says it is heading south Carlisle to Crewe. The engine is along No. 4 platform looking at the kids on No.5 platform. The station sign just says Wallgate, did Wallgate say Wigan Wallgate. The previous pic shows the same train alongside No.2 signal box with Gt. George St. to the right so it is heading south over Wallgate bridge into the station. My grandad was a signalman in No.2 box at the time so if he was on duty then he might have cleared Iron Duke to enter the station.
Sorry, I mean to say the station sign just says "Wigan"
Hi Graham,
None of the Wigan stations ever carried their full name on the totem signs - all were simply listed as "Wigan". However the larger running in boards did carry the full station name (you can see one in the picture of North Western by Thomas Sutch)
Sorry Boys but the train is going south on platform 2 if you look at platform 3 you will see the Inspector stood outside his office plus also look closely and you will see a train in the place known as 3a where trains from Liverpool or Manchester or Warrington would arrive
It WAS platform two, back in the days when the through platforms carried a separate sequence of numbering from the bays. By 1964, the platform that had been designated 'Platform 2' in the LMS rebuild carried out during WW2, had become labelled 'Platform 4', in the more simple 1 to 10 platform numbering scheme. It had been for quite some time, although I do not know when this change took place.