Wigan Album
Railways
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Photo: RON HUNT
Item #: 23853
I love this old railway photo. It's especially nice without the overhead electric cables. The little lad seems to be having a good time train-spotting on a hot summer day. Beautiful Ron.
A Hughes 'crab' going at some speed. Great photograph. Keep them coming, Ron...
I don't know much about trains, either - but I thought that signals in the horizontal position meant STOP... and this train looks as if has stopped, to me.
Good find, btw, Ron. Thanks for sharing.
If there any taken around Winwick, with the Sankey/ St Helens Canal in view in the background, I'd like to see them, if you can send them off-site.
rev that is a yellow distant signal, same as a yellow light, you can pass them when it is hrizontal, it means the next signal is on red ie be prepared to stop
I think you're wrong on both counts. The top signal, out of the picture, is 'off'. This may indicate that the train may be taking the Whelley Loop, thus avoiding Wigan...
this crab is stopped at the same signal the previous diesel loco his just passing.jarvo if it was at speed the locos motion would be blurred and going up coppull bank that fireman would not be sitting at the window sunning himself.i can assure you his back would be bent.i am puzzled as to why the stoppage, is it waiting to take the Blackburn line at boars head.or more unlikely backing into the former rof works?.
You are all right! The distant signal on the gantry,to the right would nave let trains the old boars head junction go to Adlington and Chorley! This signal long gone when I spotted in 1967!!!
Yes the little signal was for Red Rock etc. There was not another 'stop'before Boars Head!
Whelley Loop. miles away!!!
its possible something could have been going north on the whelley line and struggling with the gradient and or steam shortage causing a delay.
The signal arm which is off the picture is a 'home' signal, see the previous photo. If this signal is 'on' then the train would be at standstill, which looks to be the case.
THIS TRAIN IS GOING NORTH AT RYLANDS BOX POSSIBLY TAKING THE SLOW LINE AT STANDISH STATION THE FIREMAN COULD BE ME TRAVEL THIS LINE SO MANY TIMES IN THE 50 AND 60S LOVED THE OLD STEAM ENGINES