Lancashire’s Last Days of
Steam
by Tom Heavyside
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Paperback
Publisher: Stenlake Publishing (1 Mar 2004)
ISBN-10: 1840332859
ISBN-13: 978-1840332858
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.8 x 0.4 cm
Although not the first railway built in Britain, the George
Stephenson-engineered Liverpool & Manchester railway was the catalyst for
railway expansion throughout the country; it could even be argued that Lancashire
was the birthplace of the national railway network. Within the county itself, the
volume of traffic, even as late as 1950, was so great that it was home to 1,897
steam locomotives.
Covering the 1950s and '60s, this book not only gives an account
of the last days of steam, but also the last days of an extensive rail network
before the Beeching cuts took effect. The author, with his camera in hand, toured
many of the county's key railway sites and spoke to the men who worked there. The
story is accompanied by fifty-eight superb photographs.
Locations include: Springs Branch, Red Bank Sidings, Lostock
Hall, Carnforth, Patricroft, Skew Bridge, the Central Wagon Co. yard at Wigan,
Garstang, Bank Hall, Aintree, Allerton, Earlestown, Winwick Junction, Dallam Branch
Sidings, Trafford Park, Manchester Central, Manchester Victoria, Manchester
Exchange, Bolton Trinity Street, Horwich Works, Westhoughton, Hindley North, Wigan
Wallgate, Bamfurlong Junction, Lower Ince, Wigan North Western, Euxton Junction,
Farington Junction, Farington, Farington Curve Junction, Huncoat, Preston,
Poulton-le-Fylde, Maudlands Junction, Lancaster Castle, and Hest Bank.
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