The Manchester Railway to the Oldest Station in Bolton - Disused Railway Walk
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- The Manchester Railway to the Oldest Station in Bolton - Disused Railway Walk
In this Disused Railway Walk video i pick up the former London & North Western Railways line from Manchester to Bolton at Roe Green Junction.
I follow the route through station locations including Walkden Low Level Station, Little Hulton, Plodder Lane and talk a little bit about Bolton Great Moor Street Station.
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I have walked this line only a few days ago, so found you video very interesting. Did it by catching a tram to Eccles and returning by train from Bolton.
I have walked most of the railways in this area (being local) that have been converted to footpaths. Also worth investigating for a future video is the Manchester Bolton and Bury canal
Another lovely walk and beautiful weather! Loved the long bridges and the usual fabulous music. Looking forward to the following instalments! Thanks so much, Ant.
Must thank you Ant, you have done vlogs of my former home ollerton, Mansfield Nottingham and you have now shown the beautiful area I now live in Bolton. Looking forward to seeing your next vlog, thanks
Fantastic thank you for watching. I've done two more as well as this one 😊
Hello Patricia. I was brought up in Warsop. You moved to a nice part of the world while I moved to London!
Great video Ant another brilliant walk.
Thanks for watching John
Great episode Anthony finally learning the history of the line after all these years 👍👌
Thanks Colin very kind ☺️
Another enjoyable watch, what a beautiful day for walking. Thanks to Ant for helping to keep local and regional history alive and kicking.....
It was a lovely day although quite long. Thanks for watching 😌
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A long day of hiking is better than a short day at work.
Fantastic!.....my area and also those disused lines was worked by my great grandfather who was a driver for 60 years!.....I've a picture somewhere with him on a black five pulling freight. Also my model railway is loosely modeled on the old farnworth and halshaw moor station before it came just farnworth. It must be in rhe blood!
Nice video! When you include the colliery system which kept parts of the line open until the early 60s, probably deserves several videos on that subject alone. Plodder lane goods depot was officially still open in 1964! As a kid I remember Little Hulton Station still being in existence in the 1960s, when travelling along the A6 on family trips to Blackpool long before the M61.
Great Video Ant.
This is my local area so hope you don’t mind me adding more details.
07:12 The name Stocks is associated with Walkden as there was or is a Stocks Hotel / Pub
9:02 I think that’s a Gas Main as the only Aqueduct is Thirlmere and it runs North of the A6
10:00 Showing as an Aqueduct on old maps but I’m wondering if it’s for the steam trains as it’s not mains water.
10:30 the A6 Manchester Road East was widened along with the rest of the Lancs section of the A6 in the 1960’s as it was a main north south trunk road.
12:32 that Thirlmere aqueduct. Viewers who don’t know the area, those pipes are massive as they carry the bulk of Manchester water from the Lake District.
14:38 if you had gone left, you could have skipped the David Bellamy part through the trees 🤣 it would have brought you out on Anchor Lane and you could have gone over the M61 via the road bridge. If anyone is cycling the route, go left.
Love these railway walks, esp around Derbsyshire. I walked Asbourne to Hartington and the High Peak Trail when I lived over there.
I've got that route on my list for over the winter
Brilliant video Ant!
Welcome back to Manchester!
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Thanks for watching Ian
Very interesting and enjoyable walk with some beautiful archive photo's. Amazing to realise how early this line began its life in1830's - leaving today's legacy of splendid bridge architecture and what looks like a very pleasant trail for walkers and cyclists. Thank you.
Extraordinary that that Bolton station dated back to 1832! Almost as old as the Liverpool Manchester railway! Great video, Ant. Thanks for that!
Great video, I grew up in Walkden and my primary school was Mesne Lea which is on your left between the East Lancs Road bridge and Walkden Road bridge. To get to school we would walk across the field to your right and cross the line. I was at the school from 1963 - 1969, I remember the tracks being still down, I think there was some freight use of the line following closure to passenger trains in 1954.
Great video, thanks. I’m Bolton born and bred and after you went under Settle Street bridge well this was my playground as a kid (late 70’s to around mid 80’s). After Settle Street there isn’t much to see but after Bobby Heywoods park which was Bridgeman Street/Rothwell Street/Fletcher Street/Shaw Street areas the old railway cuttings still existed until they were filled in around 1982/83 by Caseys (filled with old skip and bin wagon rubbish and refuse). Amongst these cuttings was a tunnel (around 1/2 mile long) which ran underneath Bobby Heywoods park towards Daubhill and Leigh. The two ends of this tunnel were filled in with the rubbish but years later they broke open the tunnel about mid way and filled this with rubbish, a school now stands on the park but not directly over the tunnel.
Another wonderful video, and glorious weather to add to the atmosphere of bygone times. Looking very much forward to your next Railway adventure.
Nice video Ant, You are heading my way, I live in Radcliffe. If your going to the 13 arches which has now been blocked off again at the Radcliffe end anyway. Someone has hacked at the fencing but a load of old trees have been placed the other side of the fence, you will need a wood saw if you plan on walking across the viaduct, something I have done many times before. Chris
Loving these series of videos & those black & white pictures of stations, signal boxes & locomotives are superb, I love the old history of how the rail network used to be.
Thanks for these videos, they're superb.
My first horse came from Bolton, and she arrived by train, I remember we picked her up from Cheltenham Spa station, and drove back to Cirencester, dad said he wished Cirencester had kept its station, as we wouldn't need to go to Cheltenham to pick her up.😂 Thats an idea Ant, follow the old Cirencester railway, it will be a great challenge, but in beautiful countryside.
Excellent B / W photos at the start of your Vid Ant 😊 & thanks for sharing 🙂🚂🚂🚂
another great informative walk. Well done. Look forward to next one. Lovely weather too for your walk. Music very apt. Great bridges. Thank you. Take care😊
5:21 The small red brick arches are known as jack arches and the bridge as a whole has a formidable skew.
There was an LNWR engine sheds located at Plodder Lane where around 30 locomotives were based. This closed around mid fifties and the motive power for the line came from Patricroft Sheds.
The route remained as a freight only route until the early sixties. There was also a signalbox which served as a connection to the local Collieries just before Parsonage Road.
I stayed with relatives in Farnworth as a kid, right next to the railway line. It was possible to walk that stretch after the line was lifted but annoyingly they demolished the bridge which crossed the footpath to Farnworth Golf Club for no good reason. The embankment is now an elevated road.
I used to walk from the bridge at Coniston Grove to Tynesbank / Parsonage Roads as an apprentice at the NCB Walkden (Yard) Central Workshops in the 1960's back in the day the rail banking was extremely steep. Thanks for reviving the memory's it was a bit rougher to walk the line back then and Little Hulton station still had a platform on both sides.
There was a Rail junction Switch House between Tynesbank / Parsonage Road and the water pipes at 9minutes in on the right side of the track and on the left side opposite the rail junction switch house there was a coal wagon rail siding.
Great work , Ant ! If you're interested in the Lancs coalfield railways -and there was LOTS of it - you ought to look at the channel 'Gandy Dancer productions' . He was there in the heyday of it and got quality footage , some appears to have been made with sound. He caught the industrial tank engines of the network being absolutely hammered and thrashed. Wish I'd paid more heed to it when I was a kid. We've lost so much , the scale of the operations was huge.
My house backs into the Roe Green loop line & I cycle it on a regular basis. There was loads of railway / coal yards around the area; mostly they’re footpaths now.
We thoroughly enjoy all your videos well put together you must do hours of research.
Here's a suggestion
What about doing one of the goyt valley area where the remains of errwood hall and the gunpowder factory under the waters the old incline plane also the old railway that went whaleybridge
This line seems to have cornered the market in massive skewed brick bridges!! Great B&Ws, always good to piece things together although there is no relevance to today's views - shame!!!! 👍👍👍
Great video and many thanks.
You should have mentioned some of the engines which were run on the line.. Lancashire Witch and Sans Pareil just for a start. Both very famous.
I'm afraid I knocked very little on that subject. Thanks for watching ☺️
The Southport end of the trans Pennine trail is quite an interesting old rail line -from Halewood through Aintree and Maghull to Southport
Not sure you have done this in the past but maybe worth a look 🤔
I think those vertical posts next to the gate as you finished walking across the field towards a road looked more like sections of "I" beam rather than lengths of rail. They were too thin to be rail.
Enjoyed the walk though.
Another winner!
Very interesting video - well presented as always - can you please let me know what the background piano music is? Your choice in music is brilliant
Good work🤙hey i think its just Plodder lane but fantastic video as always👍
Thanks for watching
Just Breaks my heart with all these station s close... It bad enough today that trains are in danger of closing people are using cars more and more and train price are to high ..
nice one Ant
Thanks for watching 😊
Cheers Ant.😂
Thank you 😊
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