Wigan Album
Railway
15 Comments
Photo: Tom Sutch
Item #: 18623
tom, everything you put on is class
That's a cracking photo Tom.Just when we think we have seen them all,you come up with another.Black and white as well.
Fantastic.
The lines to the left, where are they going? Beautiful photo Tom.
St Nathaniel's church visible in the train's slipstream.
What a smashing photo Tom,Brilliant & thanks for sharing it with us
Oh how I wish i had a time machine.
The lines to the left linked the (GC) Great Central line to Platt-Bridge junction, Bickershaw W junction and Wigan Central Station.
Full steam ahead: Stanier 264T blasts it's way towards Hindley Green station. Thanks Tom.
colin wheres the houses on the right of pic ,do you mean hindley south station
I think the houses are the Leyland Park housing estate in Hindley.
Correct Neil. Micky east, Hindley South station was located on Liverpool road, next to the Strangeways pub. The station started life as Strangeways and Hindley. Hindley Green station was located on Leigh road.
colin i meant do the rails on the left run off to hindley south junction ,its next stop tyldsley for the tank?
The next stop Hindley Green stn.
Colin Micky's right next stop Tyldesley.Hindley Green shut in 1961
Micky-Frank, Wigan North-West, Hindley Green stn closed 1 May 1961, Howe Bridge stn closed 20 July 1959, Ellenbrook stn closed 2 Jan 1961, Worsley stn closed 5 May 1969, Monton Green stn closed 5 May 1969 and then on to Eccles.
Sorry missed.....Tyldesley Station closed 5 May 1969.