Bolton Great Moor Street station to Patricroft 2019. Manchesters lost railways
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- A long treck following the original LNWR line from Bolton to Patricroft, passing Plodder Lane engine shed and station, Little Hulton, Walkden, Worsley and Monton Green stations finishing at the site of the mighty Patricroft Engine shed. Well walked with plenty of clues remaining.
Filmed by Allan Roach.
I used to walk this route into Bolton town centre from farnworth regularly
Fantastic video I will look for others thanks🎉❤
brought back a lot of memories, at 1:10 to 1:16 Lever street area , as a young lad of 5 years old in 1953 , lived at No. 349 which is more or less were the photographer is standing, the end of a block of 8 terraced houses, the upstairs back bedroom offered a good view of the coal yard where wagons were shunted for the coalmen to fill there sacks for domestic coal fires. I knew this area pretty well as a lad now all long gone.
Love it! Many thanks.
Another great video!
Went on a rail tour to Great Moor Street and then to Little hulton and back before heading to places like Wigan and St Helens
Very good Allan. Not everyone appreciates how much work goes into these but you’ve put a lot of work in. Really enjoyed it.
An interesting look at a route I know very well already- thanks for your efforts!
At 15:52 the old bridge was the canal line from linnyshaw colliery Dow to the Bridgewater canal Worsley
I watch Martin Zero amazed how many lines around manchester have disappeared as a Londoner i can only think two lines that have closed plus the railways in the London Docks.. most London lines have usrd as roads ir as DLR or in South London - Trams.
At Plodder Lane station the platform area was filled in when the bridge was filled in. The station buildings were demolished shortly after the end of passenger services in 1954.
thank you for taking the trouble to show us this .
I found an abandoned train coal carriage at winton area other day thats connected to ur route ... of old railway
You actually just missed out some of the original brick structure on the other side of Walkden Lower Level, plus there's the tiniest amount of the platform remaining, along with some of the back wall to the station. Also you missed the footings of a footbridge just shortly after leaving WLL... somewhat overgrown, but the brickwork is still in good nick!
Those steps at Worsley Station, actually mark the spot of the footbridge over to the other platform, plus the pathway back up to the main road!
Amazed at the effort made to provide the through path, especially on some of the bridges, which must have cost quite a bit
This is a fantastic video. I really enjoyed your journey down this long forgotten line.
Worsley station was not sited just after Worsley Road it was in fact at the platforms you show in the next sequence.
8:24 is the Thirlmere viaduct. comes from the lakes at walking speed. all by gravity. There is another one near Walkden. been there approx 200 years
11:10. think outside the box a bit mate it is metal ducting surrounding a round tubular pipe.
The square structure on pillers is a pipe , sewer or drainage
You have got one or two things wrong around the walkden area The mineral line went to Ashley Green coal mine and the other line went to Wigan and Leigh
Isn't the route branching off at 7:00 the one which ran down to where Worsley green is? Where the yard was?
No this was a line from little hulton jct leading to peel hall colliery
@@onemancOk, my mistake, but there was one somewhere leading down to the green, and I've looked at this line on google maps aerial view and it does show a branch leading off at some point down to Worsley green, and it even shows impressions of sleepers on the green, and there was a TV show about it some time ago. And I've walked some stretches of this route myself, including the line from Roe green junction that runs under the East Lancs. road towards Tyldesley. I'll have to look again more carefully and try and see where the Worsley yard line branched off.
Not sure if you realise but if you walk the path adjacent to the old embankment between the hospital (Minerva Road) and Plodder Lane then you will see a surviving length of the wall that was the boundary wall of the shed area.
I really enjoyed the video. Currently looking for more old pictures and video footage around Bolton. I’m very fascinated with the railway lines and pre war buildings
Alot of times when you come to a sudden gradient thats too big for a railway it is a filled in cutting
Any chance of doing the Kenyon Junction line Allan?
You need more links to old maps that show the full extent of the Railway Networks.
In Worsley, did you see Lucy? LOL Ee by gum, eckie thump! LOL