At 10:30 you can see on the left, the remains of the track that was formerly one of the connections to when this area was once Euxton R.O.F. (Royal Ordnance Factory) . I can still remember back in the 1970s/1980s the remains of the former Euxton R.O.F. railway station still standing derelict just roughly on the Chorley side of the overbridge at 8:54 & the present Buckshaw Parkway station. It was still extant into the 1980s complete with buildings on both platforms that stood away from the main lines as they were served by long passenger loops (long since lifted by the 1970s) I seem to remember that it was mainly a 1930s construction consisting of red brick, curved art deco style walls, concrete prefab platforms, buildings with metal window frames & flat roofs, as well as the platforms having long canopies. Faded peeling posters were still on the walls here & there, shrubs, weeds & small trees were starting to take over as nature slowly reclaimed the area. I would have loved to have took photos, but because of the location of the station being within the confines of a munitions factory there were signs all over declaring 'PHOTOGRAPHY PROHIBITED' Official secrets act.. etc etc. I understand that the station was eventually demolished in the very late 1980s early 1990s.

That stretch of line between OxfordRoad and Piccadilly is such a bottleneck, and I consider Platform’s 13 and 14 at Piccadilly to be dangerous. They are being used for a purpose they were never intended for.

Great

It's mad to look back at this route now that the Wigan to Bolton electrification project is nearly complete, with all the new overhead wires and extended platforms etc. Certainly worth an updated video at some point next year

Class 331 picks up lot faster than a Pacer :)

It’s a jungle out there!

I bet my ancestors in Victorian times did this journey.

Did the Crowthorne Line used to be semaphore signalled past Denton Junction at one time?

Thanks for doing these cab view rides mate.Really enjoyable,all the best.🤙

"somebody step on a duck?" Caddyshack.

Uk be halp me make trand street in my Land East Timor.

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?

wow

think of all the lost signal boxes that once lined this route , i do

Brilliant videos I’m going to do this route thanks❤

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

curtains in todd

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.

19:54 is the approximate location of the new Headbolt Lane station, for those interested.

I like trains

Strange your company let you use this.. my rail company would sack our drivers for this !!!! Gross misconduct

20:15

travelled this line many times in the 603 when I was trainspotting at Wigan from my home town of Bolton..

y is it a single track

I loved catching this route. Much rarer than the one via Bolton and picturesque enough to put your book down.

its amazing to think the vavvis cut through these rock cuttings with prob just pix axes brill vid as usual

Love this video countryside never changed on this route in over 100 years.

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)

Brian Redhead made a film about this line in the 1981 travelling from Stockport to Stalybridge for Home Ground on the BBC.

Is this service no longer running? I took this train often before COVID but no longer see it on the timetables.

Nice

Via platform one at Preston👍

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 :-)

11:11, be a couple of years when the wires carry on to wigan north western.

7:05 Which speed limits are the 331's using??I'm guessing the faster speed as they are MU's...

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.

Only 480p? Was this filmed on a potato?!

Could you film man vic to leeds via brighouse and dewsbury?

0:39 why the time traveling?

Why is it only 20 from meols cop to southport? Surely it could be at least 40?

I notice that this line was quadruple many years ago, must have been a busy line at one time.

What is this filmed from? A 150? Is it a double unit?

Great video’s! What camera do you use?

So many good memories ! Thank you !

It would be nice to see a picture of the train in these clips.

Really interesting ride. Why is the Athrtyon Down only 50?

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?