Wigan Album

Nice photo Colin.
I certainly prefer this view to mine.
The station must have been so much more welcoming back then with its staff,station master & waiting rooms,(no doubt each waiting room had a roaring coal fire in each of them keeping the waiting rooms warm for the passengers).
My mate Lawrence Thorpe was probably one of the last members of staff there as he worked in the ticket office at Pemberton in the mid 1980s

Correct Harry , I left pemberton stn May 1986 Pay train scheme brought in, Fare assistants on train ,Good to see photos of pemberton stn

Those steps must have been a nightmare for prams and less mobile folk. I remember the station like this but as a child you don't really consider issues like access. Good photo!

Much better back then, plenty trains as well, not like getting on the cattle trucks they call trains, to Manchester these days (when they arrive that is). All those savings made and the costs of travelling on trains in the UK are the highest in the civilised world and the conditions second only to India.

Lived on Billinge Road just below Pem station from 1952 to 1969. Brilliant memories of trainspotting from garden fence (esp. on Grand National day with expresses via Pem Loop) and coal wagon shunting from pit opposite. Most exciting event was when a truck travelling down Billinge Road careered out of contro,l came through the stone bridge in the photo and landed upside down on the tracks! Fortunately the driver was not seriously hurt.