Houses, heavily redeveloped & built on, yet two original railway remnants remain... ONE... is what I suspect is the original station master's house on Ivy Street that previously overlooked the island platforms. It is still set back from the road & built at an angle & in the style of all the other station master's houses/crossing keeper's houses & station buildings along the line from Southport to Wigan that were all built from stone that was quarried at Parbold.. Google street view.. google.com/maps/@53.6426435,-2.9878549,3a,41.2y,124.96h,90.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCICW0gA-juX0wI4k84vqQg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu Side by side 1914 map view for comparison. maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.5&lat=53.64269&lon=-2.98754&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld Two... also a section of the original boundary wall for the station remains, with it's original Staffordshire blue curved coping bricks on top, that were made by Joseph Hamblet of West Bromwich google.com/maps/@53.6428902,-2.987656,3a,19.7y,98.02h,76.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swrdRPjWM7ps_l9Bq-jurfQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu uknamedbricks.blogspot.com/2020/02/joseph-hamblet-brickmaker-west-bromwich.html
Love this video countryside never changed on this route in over 100 years.
Love this video countryside never changed on this route is over 1000909000000000000000 years
think of all the lost signal boxes that once lined this route , i do
I like trains
This is the northern service to aleej the next stop is wangn wallaga
Travelling this way I could make out where the line went straight into St Luke's station. Anyone know what's on that site now?
Houses, heavily redeveloped & built on, yet two original railway remnants remain...
ONE... is what I suspect is the original station master's house on Ivy Street that previously overlooked the island platforms.
It is still set back from the road & built at an angle & in the style of all the other station master's houses/crossing keeper's houses & station buildings along the line from Southport to Wigan that were all built from stone that was quarried at Parbold..
Google street view..
google.com/maps/@53.6426435,-2.9878549,3a,41.2y,124.96h,90.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCICW0gA-juX0wI4k84vqQg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Side by side 1914 map view for comparison.
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.5&lat=53.64269&lon=-2.98754&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld
Two... also a section of the original boundary wall for the station remains, with it's original Staffordshire blue curved coping bricks on top, that were made by Joseph Hamblet of West Bromwich
google.com/maps/@53.6428902,-2.987656,3a,19.7y,98.02h,76.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swrdRPjWM7ps_l9Bq-jurfQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
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