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Black Five at Rose Bridge Junction Higher Ince
Photo: dk
Photo: dk
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Item #: 5210
Item #: 5210
Dated circa 1962 and taken at Rose Bridge Junction on the Whelley Loop line at Higher Ince.
45397 Black five Stanier built in 1936 by Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd Works. 842 in total built for BR. Weight 75 tons. 45397 was one of only 46 still running when withdrawn at the end of steam in August 1968. Driving wheel 72".
source: www.railuk.info/steam/getsteam
The backs of houses of Belle Green Lane are in the distance - the end terrace is Elizabeth Street, and the lower end of that row is where the Springs Branch line crossed the road - and the rucks below the line show clearly. There are newer houses in the distance - Kendal Road.
I wasn't here for this photo but I have stood on this spot and watched the engines go by, holding my Grandad's hand and, this close, the senses are blasted as the ground shakes and the noise and sheer size of it forces an involuntary backward step. The smell and the heat and then the rattling train and slowly it passes and great quiet descends.
We shouldn't have been stood there though.
45397 Black five Stanier built in 1936 by Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd Works. 842 in total built for BR. Weight 75 tons. 45397 was one of only 46 still running when withdrawn at the end of steam in August 1968. Driving wheel 72".
source: www.railuk.info/steam/getsteam
The backs of houses of Belle Green Lane are in the distance - the end terrace is Elizabeth Street, and the lower end of that row is where the Springs Branch line crossed the road - and the rucks below the line show clearly. There are newer houses in the distance - Kendal Road.
I wasn't here for this photo but I have stood on this spot and watched the engines go by, holding my Grandad's hand and, this close, the senses are blasted as the ground shakes and the noise and sheer size of it forces an involuntary backward step. The smell and the heat and then the rattling train and slowly it passes and great quiet descends.
We shouldn't have been stood there though.
Comment by: Tom on 22nd February 2008 at 00:11
Great photos dk, keep um comin !
I'm delighted to find this now that I'm researching my family history. My great grandfather Thomas Reynolds was a brake van guard on the Lancashire Union Railway and was killed at Rose Bridge Junction when he was run over by a brake van on 17 September 1895. Unfortunately for him he survived a further two weeks before dying in Wigan Infirmary on 1 October 1895. He left a widow and several children in, I suppose, poverty after his death.
My grandfather was also Thomas Reynolds and he worked on the railway and retired as a foreman shunter on the Springs Branch.
If anyone has any information on the 1895 accident I will be very glad to hear from them. The Coroner's Inquest was heard on 2 October 1895.
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