Lowton St.Marys - Haydock - St Helens Central. Great Central Revisited. Lost railways of Lancashire

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@TheDaf95xf Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed that 👍🏻 I spent many an hour on Lowton St Mary’s station with lovely grandad Jack Atherton in the 60s watching the trains when I was a wee boy lol 😆 That expirerencs got me into trains that I still love to this day at 66 🤩

@dashooting6595 4 ай бұрын

wow, absolutely loved that. Im from St Helens and it still amazes me the history we have and the remenanance that is still there hidden in plain sight.

@ronaldchives2486 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant stuff mate, I love your videos, 🙂

@MisterHughie 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy watching your videos, the history and your story telling are fantastic, thanks chaps

@ronvalente65 Жыл бұрын

Their was two stations within a mile of each other Lowton St Mary's and Pennington, the line from Kenyon Junction to Bolton and a branch into Leigh was closed in the 1960s leaving Leigh without a station.! allegedly this line into Bolton was built before the Liverpool/ Manchester line, built in 1828 two years before the Liverpool/ Manchester line, the line now is the Atherleigh Byepass.

@roserstefan Жыл бұрын

I remember trains running from the oil depot, past the race course, and onto the WCML. The line around Golborne has been back in use courtesy of Hanson aggregates on Edge Green Road in Ashton-in-Makerfield. The stone train originates from Ribblehead virtual quarry, comes off the WCML down to that buffer stop just before the bridge and reserves back up the spur for unloading.

@Embracing01 Жыл бұрын

Isn't Edge Green Road in Golborne and not Ashton?.

@roserstefan Жыл бұрын

@@Embracing01 Not according to the address on the website.

@browney1980 11 ай бұрын

Round the corner from where I live always wondered where that old central line went to ... Great video 👍

@geoffreyhoughton4616 2 жыл бұрын

This line ran behind my house when i lived in William road Haydock it ran behind station road central drive william road mc donald avenue after it had crossed the the spur from the sankey canal there was a bridge that took it over the road at redgate and on to st helens central from there you could get to rainford junction through harsfinch and moss bank part of the old track bed is still there..i still live in haydock and remember this line very well i now live near where the bridge was that took this line over the sankey canal spur spent many days when i was a child watching the trains pass our house good to see mick as i know him from the east lancs railway at bury where we where both volunteers

@samshunt5715 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic thanks for uploading

@berniestep 2 жыл бұрын

Well done lads, a cracking tour of the trackbed. I jumped on the ladder of an oil tanker when I was a kid, as the train came slowly past Ashton Heath / Haydock Racecourse, but the rungs were caked in crude oil, and I couldn't get the stuff off my hands or clothes. There was 'trouble at t' mill' when I got home.

@Embracing01 Жыл бұрын

Interesting stuff, such a shame these stations are no longer there. I regularly walk near to the site of the old Haydock Park station, I've been tempted a few times to cross the old bridge that's fenced off as there's a gap but deciced not to as I'd probably fall through it. I used to walk across it before the fence was there but it's probably that badly eroded now. I've noticed further up the line on the left side towards Haydock Park (just outside where the original fence posts were surrounding the track) there's a sort of block paved area, it's hard to explain what it is but could be a more recent construction which for some reason never got completed, it looks too modern to be from the station. It's like someone tried to build a block paved drive way there, but it's patially buried under the overgrown grass. Considering the line was still in use as goods traffic up until the 1970s, it's remarkable how quick the large trees surrounding the track bed have grown, some of those trees look ancient. I used to spend alot of my summer holiday time in the early-mid 90s with my dad further up the line at Golborne train spotting at Haydock Junct. We'd get out of the car behind the chippy and walk down the line, back then no high fence around the track. Never did anything wrong and it did us a world of good getting out instead of being stuck indoors.

@stephenharper9961 10 ай бұрын

Line to Ashton is used a few times a week, to run stone trains from shap and tuebrook sidings in liverpool

@SuperDALLAMAN 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely excellent. My friends and I ex railway would work on parts of it and it means a lot to see it along with the old photos. Many thanks.

@craiglogistics2092 2 жыл бұрын

Another good exploration Allan, I hope Nick has recovered from his trip to Scandinavia

@radiocaroline199 Жыл бұрын

Yes very interesting where Lidi at blackbrook is there was a bridge across the road which I got photos of also bridge across road Merton bank Rd

@Mustafa-Dump 4 ай бұрын

Cephos bridge xD

@stuyates76 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always lads 👍

@majorpygge-phartt2643 2 жыл бұрын

I've tried following this route on google maps aerial views, but I couldn't see this much detail and I thought it had all disappeared except for the bit at Lowton still used as a head shunt for freight trains from the WCML. I'll have to have another look on google maps, and I remember seeing the remaining viaduct piers either side of the line to Liverpool via St. Helens back in january 1989.

@anthonymoore6009 2 жыл бұрын

Quality stuff guys. Excellent exploring. I assist a KZbin channel called Pastfinder who is very similar to what you do, canals, railways etc. Based in Cheshire and Hampshire. Going through your films and enjoying them.

@WildOwlFilms 2 жыл бұрын

16.15 in the video the track used to cross the road via what was known locally as the Cephos Bridge

@LBSCR-Productions 2 жыл бұрын

great vid, you should check out the old godley east freight line up near hattersley, theres an old platform a turnrable and an old signal box, i could send you the pics of you want

@onemanc 2 жыл бұрын

Already done it. Check it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX2UgZ-HZ8ebjZY

@vincentswift7 Жыл бұрын

Most of the time after it opened the line was worked virtually exclusively by J10 0-6-0s from their home shed at Wigan there wasn't a great variety of GC or LNER or BR locos on the line apart from enthusists specials even the last train was a J10