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Liverpool? It's gone past Taylor's Lane, so how the hell will it get to Liverpool? It's on the 'up' main...

Via Warrington!

It went via Earlestown and St Helens Junction and not via Bryn or St Helens Central.Owdbill.

Jarvo....There is more than one way to Liverpool. Try Golborne Junction, Newton Le Willows and Earlestown!

Golbourne Junction? Never heard of it...

Some people are lost outside Wigan.

Most carrage trains to Liverpool in the 70s and 80's, apart from specials took the Golborne junction route. It is still used for trains to Warrington or the south which want to call at newton

who gives a dam how it got to liverpool . lets just say it went via the old lowton st marys stn then parkside jct then up to liverpool i should no because this was one of the many times i was on this service (apart from 1m22). enough chit chat talking rubbish......."OMG" 40152 the amount of times ive have this BEAST FROM HELL got some millage behind it in yorkshire manchester wigan the list goe's on . i would like to bet when mick took this piccy he could hear the growl n thrash of this beast long before it came into view at canal sideings. i fear for his saftey when this domino head board beast approached from wigan . OH my lords im gonna faint .GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Jarvo:

The line with which we are familiar, is not the original line.

The Wigan Branch Railway, as opened in 1832, ran from Wigan, to a junction with the Liverpool Manchester Railway at Parkside. The route then proceeded west along the L&M, to Earlestown, where the Warrington - Newton branch linked Warrington to the L&M in similar manner. The current WCML uses a later construction, which by-passed these jubctions, and directly linked the two North - South direction routes.

cullie:

What were you doing at Lowton??? Was it a sight-seeing tour of Golborne Coliery? It is a very strange way to get from WCML to Liverpool!

that was it's booked path AP dont ask me why i dont know it's still one hell of a beast gggggrrrrrrrr.

I see Cullie's been at the Vimto again !

the class 40's where thought of by the railway executive to be has weak as robins,where ever they went they where quickly supplanted by other stronger diesels.secondary duties or freight operations.sorry to burst the bubble

mick langton have you not got any pictures of the 1m22 preston liverpool servise ? it had class 40's the odd rat and the odd no heat duff on it happy days i'd like bet im on some of the piccys .

With regard to a previous comment about class 40's being as weak as robins I would have thought that any loco that had a tractive effort of 52,000lbs is not weak.

Cullie..I remember 1M22 well, I will take a look but I'm not sure if I have any decent shots. I was often in the cab from Preston, especially if Mr Box was the driver. The loco worked l/e from the Branch. I remember one Friday going up with a pair of 20s soon after they arrived at Wigan to work the train as a test for the locos. They wouldn't pull the skin of a rice pudding! I worked on the locos on the Saturday and tested them again on the drawbacks to Losock Junction on the Sunday. Happy days!

B.R. certainly purchased enough of them! If they were that unsatisfactory, was it because they were going cheap?

These foul smelling monsters replaced the Coronation class in the early sixties...How sad was that!

Jarvo's spit his dummy out. We in the UK, was the last country in the euro to still have steam. It had to go.

Diesel - Main line steam did not end in West Germany until October 1977. It continued in East Germany into the 1980s.

Steam had to go, eh? And with it went the railway's heart and soul...You don't see many kids trainspotting these days, do you? I wonder why...?

Jarvo, kids don,t need to silly train spot today, they had nowt to do then. All kids want these days is a mobile phone, who would want to train spot anyway?? We in the UK was the LAST country to loose steam, all because we built new railways and stock because of damage from the 2nd world war.