Wigan Album

nostalgic photo
train has just gone past Roundhouse Junction

great photo col.a nice wigan world christmas special.

Smashing picture colin
I remember the trains on that line like they were yesterday
I used to run up to the bush each weekday night to catch the 25 to 6 namer
It was a freight train always pulled by a named train usually jubilee class or patriot class
Happy days

I recall the freight train Peter Frost has identified: usually hauled by a jubilee class locomotive. I always wanted to know from where it had come from, and to where it was bound. Does anyone know?

Great picture Colin. Golden days.

i remember them trains going past and running to see them go past not that i would have known what names they had ! that place was one of many playgrounds for us as children yes colin happy days .

sorry meant peter !

it looks like the train we called " Longmeg ". It was a sand train that ran from Clitheroe to St Helens with sand for Pilkingtons glass works

nopa1000 is half right - it is a Long Meg working. As the wagons are unsheeted it would seem to be the return working of the Long Meg to Widnes Anhydrite working. This was always a freight engine, I never saw anything else on it, and it originally travelled from Lostock Hall Junction via Ormskirk and the old Cheshire Lines to access the Widnes chemicals area. It was diverted via the Whelley Loop Line and Fir Tree House Junction when the Cheshire Lines closed beyond Walton-on-the-Hill.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of the photographer David Wharton, or indeed if he is still with us. I'd like to try and get in touch with him to discuss with him his photos around Ormskirk. Many thanks.