Another good one to look at Alan if you get time is the old soapworks line in irlam ,ran next to the ship canal. Brilliant video of Partington gas works ,looking forward to watching this one now 😀
You went completely the wrong way to get to the bike lane. You go over the bridge towards Willaston and just as you go over the crest of the hill and drop back down the entrance is on the left and does a little switchback down to the old track side.
One has to ask why we decimated the railway system in Britain other than to provide land for housing and road transport. Labour, the party of the worker supposedly, had their mitts in all of this.
Excellent. Used to Run around Oil Tank Trains on Rusty Tracks at Hooton. Think Express Trains were Paddington? Thank You 👍 The Old Military Pilbox Structure protected Line into "ROFTON (Ammunition Ordinance Works)"..👍
Keep up the excellent work
Fantastic history cheers ☕️
Mate love the fleetwood line hope you do that again because there a lot more
Were have you gone
Air raid shelter is an Anderson shelter..it was next to rofton munition factory and Hooton runway
Correct.! Wasn't Hooton Airfield a few Miles to East of Station, Rofton Works?
What a great video! Thanks to this I will make a point of visiting Hadlow Road Station when I’m on my way Chester next month! 👍👍👍👍👍
Brilliant video
As always absolutely amazing captures there mate it's shocking to still find remnants left even if you have to look in the shrubbery
Hi, just to say that Hooton Station had 7 platforms, and the old waiting room was on platform 7. Platform 1 was a Bay for the Branch Line to Helsby.
You mentioned Birkenhead Woodside. That was a station I went to lots until they closed the line.
I saw the old side of hooten and I’ve checked it out as well
love the video, the history and info provided. Thank you
There was a Royal Ordnance Factory at Hooton, called Roften. That’s what the pillbox might have been protecting.
Another good one to look at Alan if you get time is the old soapworks line in irlam ,ran next to the ship canal. Brilliant video of Partington gas works ,looking forward to watching this one now 😀
I ride my horse down hadlow station, and through the sandstone cut out
You went completely the wrong way to get to the bike lane.
You go over the bridge towards Willaston and just as you go over the crest of the hill and drop back down the entrance is on the left and does a little switchback down to the old track side.
One has to ask why we decimated the railway system in Britain other than to provide land for housing and road transport. Labour, the party of the worker supposedly, had their mitts in all of this.
Excellent. Used to Run around Oil Tank Trains on Rusty Tracks at Hooton. Think Express Trains were Paddington? Thank You 👍
The Old Military Pilbox Structure protected Line into "ROFTON (Ammunition Ordinance Works)"..👍
Trains from London came from Paddington surely (not Euston)
Yes was Paddington to Birkenhead
@@jdfaulkner they did mate, slip of the tongue…