Wigan Album

Tom, did you work at Springs Branch, and if so when?

Yes Irene, beginning of 1964 till the railways where privatized, then Wigan Wallgate.

I thought we had started putting horror pic's on for a minute - scared me stiff !

My brother worked there from leaving school in the fifties, (he's 12 or 13 years my senior), until around 1966 or thereabouts. His name is Colin Griffiths. When I was a little girl, he would take me to the sheds when he collected his wages, and lift me up onto the footplate of the old steamers when the men were shovelling coal into the firebox.Were't those trains MAGIC?!

now i know where they got the Worf character off Star Trek from.

I thought for a moment it was jimmy lonesome.very similar looks

does anyone remember driver jim mcclure [real name bill] from branch he lived in barnsley st

This is my dad. It was lovely to see a photograph of him and to read those kind comments about him. He was a wonderful dad and he is still really missed.