Saddleworth - 'Delph Donkey' trip out 1955

The Hirst family enjoy a trip up to Delph from Oldham on the 'Delph Donkey' branch railway line that ran between Oldham and Delph. The film includes a 'snapshot' of each station, a view of Lees locomotive shed - exchanging the token at Moorgate Delph Junction Signalbox.

[@gkvince]

thanks saddleworth museum this is pure magic

[@kerlagadic]

What a marvellous film! I used to make the same journey in reverse, a day out in Oldham, getting off the train at Glodwick Road to visit my grandmas in Derker. I was about the same age as the two boys, and if one of them was Philip Hirst, I later went to school with him in Oldham. Wish my parents were here to watch this!

[@updistant]

Wow! What a wonderful window into the way we were. Thank you for posting.

[@lablackzed]

Remember this like it was yesterday this is the saddleworth i remember .👍

[@lindsaypeterholden2701]

Brilliant 😀Proper Saddleworth before all the Villages became one🤧My Father and his twin Brother travelled this line each Day from 1937.after the War My uncle was a Fireman on the "Donkey" working out of Lees Shed's,My Father worked at Measurements and each Day would get a "Toot-Toot" when the Train passed the Factory.Halcyon Day's Great Film.

[@lindsaypeterholden2701]

I think The signal Man at Uppermill Moorgate Junction may well be Mr Frank Chapell a Gent who resided in Delph.The line actually closed for passenger traffic the same Year.My Grandfather worked at Clegg St and Glodwick Road Station's

[@majorpygge-phartt2643]

The little sprog in the buggie's the real star of the show.

[@majorpygge-phartt2643]

You can see another viaduct in the distance on the right at 1:10, isn't that one of those which was demolished on the micklehurst loop? it looks like the one at greenfield, there's just a big patch of grass there now, or there was when I last went there, years ago.

[@PeterFox-j2m]

YES - you can see the route of the loop lone on the opposite side of the valley - hope you enjoyed it