Yeah, good one. I visited a couple of times. My Uncle Paul Henderson worked there. Most of my time was at Edgeley Sheds though. Further along the line there was a very small sidings to Bennetts iron foundry I remember as a small child. My dad was wages clerk there.
There were sidings all the way from Heaton Mersey to the tunnel entrance above Tiviot Dale - for at least half a century before this worked by GC 0-6-2 tanks. But not and inch of them is here - this clip is about the old Midland railway loco shed.
Last sidings were at Georges Road Yard, so not 'all' the way! Amazing to think now how much land the railways owned when you look at it today. Very few reminders of the glorious age.
On TVP s DVD Steam on the shed volume1 there's a similar sequence of what I think is the same train pulling out of the sidings. If it is the same train then I can name one of the lineside (on the line ) enthusiasts as a chap I knew from Oldham who died in 1983.
Yeah, good one. I visited a couple of times. My Uncle Paul Henderson worked there. Most of my time was at Edgeley Sheds though. Further along the line there was a very small sidings to Bennetts iron foundry I remember as a small child. My dad was wages clerk there.
That's where granddad used to work I remember going with him to see his buddy's after the he retired be about 1964/65 his name was Harry Lloyd
There were sidings all the way from Heaton Mersey to the tunnel entrance above Tiviot Dale - for at least half a century before this worked by GC 0-6-2 tanks. But not and inch of them is here - this clip is about the old Midland railway loco shed.
Last sidings were at Georges Road Yard, so not 'all' the way! Amazing to think now how much land the railways owned when you look at it today. Very few reminders of the glorious age.
On TVP s DVD Steam on the shed volume1 there's a similar sequence of what I think is the same train pulling out of the sidings. If it is the same train then I can name one of the lineside (on the line ) enthusiasts as a chap I knew from Oldham who died in 1983.
Great film
I wonder if there is any footage of Cheadle North station and the Manchester Rd Bridge area in this film?
don't suppose you have more info or footage of the clc line more specifically to do with Tiviot dale station?
I have quite a lot of the B&R video DVDs of the north west but I dont have this one. Could you tell me what volume this is from please?
I think it is vol 115."Steam,North of Derby"..it says on the notes on the back of the dvd....... it contains visiting Heaton Mersey Shed.
Try vol 54,or 115..its the only two I have with H/Mersey, and I am sure this clip is from one of them..
Cheers, I have both of those volumes and this footage is not on either of them.
With all the enthusiasts on the track the H&S Brigade of today would have a Thromby!
We never had any bother in those days. The shed foreman knew a lot of us by name!
To do the same positions today you'd be stood in the middle of the M60. Disgusting how rail gives way to road and gets swept away.
1:58 he'll pinch them