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Started by: ashtonman01 (211)

Does anyone know when Bryn station was altered the way it is today?. By altered I mean the lifting of the former freight lines that used to run opposite the main Wigan-Liverpool lines that was situated behind where the former waiting shelters used to be, not to mention the altering of the steps down to the Liverpool direction platform. Most people who aren't old enough to remember or originally from the area would never have thought there was once a separate line where the trees and overgrown grass is now behind the wire fence. I'm not old enough to remember the way it was, but it's been the way it is now since at least the early 80s. There are photos from the 60s I've seen with the former lines and steps running down towards the platform instead of going diagonally across for prams and wheelchairs. It's funny we never needed pram and disabled accessibility back in those days, people just got on with it, now you need ramps to get onto the train.

I assuming it was around the mid 70s when they filled in the track bed and altered the steps?.

Replied: 3rd Aug 2020 at 11:07

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