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Great video, beautifully edited! - is "low adhesion" to do with the rain, and, if so, is there a system that alerts the driver or is it just the feel of the ride?
Would love to see the Clitheroe to Hellifield route. Which is way long overdue for re-commissioning. A real, existing, practical possibility more than the fantasized Colne-Skipton dreams.
I never realised that it was only AFTER you left Kirkham Station that you could see St Michael's spire. Used to live in Treales. Turn left at the first bridge after Kirkham Station.
2:20 Site of Miles Platting station 3:40 Site of Newton Heath station 5:56 Site of Middleton Junction station 18:30 Site of Walsden station (original 1st station) 23:03 Site of Eastwood station 29:32 Site of Luddenfoot station 34:09 Site of Copley station 39:24 Site of Hipperholme station 40:12 Site of Lightcliffe station 41:07 Site of Wyke station 43:32 Site of Low Moor station (original 1st station) 45:37 Site of Bowling station 50:16 Site of St Dunstan's station 52:37 Site of Laisterdyke station 56:46 Site of Stanningley station 1:00:45 Site of Armley & Wortley station
13:08 Site of Wilpshire (For Ribchester) station 17:27 Site of Daisyfield station 23:12 Site of Lower Darwen station 28:11 Site of Spring Vale station 34:57 Site of Turton station 39:03 Site of The Oaks station 49:56 Site of Dixon Fold station 53:26 Site of Pendleton (old) station
At 6:59 if you look to the left you can see the separate single disused bridge portal where the former up slow line passed through, this is because back in 1888 when the line was built, the L&YR put a kind of future 'passive provision' in place & configured the bridge & track layout that way should the need ever arise for them to build a station there (had it taken place & been built it would have probably been named Hart Common & Dobb Brow) Had it taken place it could have been built with relative ease & no doubt in the similar style of all the others that were built to serve the slow lines. In the late 1980s BR & the GMPTE did revive plans to actually build a station at Dobb Brow, but further down at 7:26 on the Manchester side of the A58 (Wigan Road) overbridge, near to the site of Dobb Brow Junction. Dobb Brow station actually appeared on some railway maps for a very short time, depicted as.....Dobb Brow (opening 1988). There is still no station at Dobb Brow.
Great upload, cool to see this in cab view 🙂 This is a route I know well as I've travelled many times in the past on the class 150s and bouncy 142 pacers (I used to live in Swinton) and travel to and from Mcr to Wigan regularly. Used to stand on the road watching the big class 37 goods train thrash through toward Mcr in the early morning on my way to school and feel the floor rumble! Interesting you can still see where Pendleton station used to be before it was demolished, as well as the track widening still present for Irlams o'th Height station abd Pendlebury stations longs since gone. I've seen photos of this route when there used to be the two extra lines on the left (you can still make out the old tunnels along the way)
Nice, the Calder Valley Line does look beautiful and with such ironic stations such as: Halifax and Hebden Bridge. Fully enjoyed the full journey to Manchester Victoria :-)
I did Preston-Leeds a bit back and once you get past Burnley and through Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd Halifax and Bradford is one of the most beautiful landscapes through the mountains....
Why did it go up the fasts between slade lane and Piccadilly and not down the slow? Makes no sense to do this and will just cause more congestion. The slows are there for this reason. Why not use them? Seems very strange.
Great video. Nice not to have the sound muted so we can hear what's going on with the controls, engines etc. Interesting to see the junction layouts between Oxford Road and Bolton from the driver's cab. I assume this was a service to Southport?
No need for double track with current demand. If new Stockport passenger services are introduced/diverted away from Piccadilly through to Victoria, then line capacity would need to increase. The M60 bridge would be a pinch point but the cost/traffic chaos of a new bridge may mean just having to live with it. More freight due to the Trans Pennine upgrade may be the only reason to re-double into Guide Bridge. Lot of talk but no action from the Government.
Memories of my frequent travelling between Chester and Manchester in the 1990s flooding back watching this. I don’t recall the stretch from Eccles and Patricroft being electrified at that time though.
Jeez....made this journey more than a few times between 1991 and 1997 when I was living in Manchester but travelling back to forth to North Wales to see family.
The last time I went from Preston to Leyland was to look for a computer programming job there in 1968 or 69 - which I didn't get - probably for the best looking back on it. I had travelled up from Kent via Euston. The Preston to Leyland trip was in a clanky old diesel mechanical unit. The clutch wasn't too good as the driver crunched through the gears all the way. Amazing what sticks in your memory. Great to see how things have change (should have done after 50 odd years). Super train, great acceleration.
can't really see why he was crossed to the fasts, then back onto the slows for P 14? unless the bobby was performing a circuit proving move in a rare quiet slot.....
