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Central Station
Central Station
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 26480
Taken in 1964.

Comment by: Albert. on 17th May 2015 at 16:04

A side tanker Didn't some locomotives' on this line have strange shaped funnels?

Comment by: Eric on 17th May 2015 at 17:09

Do you mean a (coffee pot) Albert?

Comment by: Albert. on 17th May 2015 at 19:22

Yes, Eric, if that is the terminology for it. It tapered from the top to the base.

Comment by: Jarvo on 17th May 2015 at 19:58

This isn't a 'coffee pot'. That name was given to a Fowler 0-6-0. And where was the turntable?

Comment by: Eric on 17th May 2015 at 20:49

That was the nickname Albert,and I didn't mention it was this engine jarvo

Comment by: Garry on 18th May 2015 at 03:41

Tunetable was where old kwiksave use to be at lower Ince.

Comment by: Albert. on 18th May 2015 at 09:48

Eric. Did these "coffee pot" funnels make the locomotive more efficient, or was it just the designer's whim?

Comment by: Carolaen on 18th May 2015 at 11:06

We lived off Darlington Street East and in the late 1950s as young boys we would go across the Rec (now St Pats RLFC) jump across t he bywash to the dwaste land (some call it the Chimic) and go an play on the turnatable I think you are talking about. It was always unattended and I ca,t recall any engines on it.

I shudder to think what modern parents would be called for letting 8 year olds out like that , but it was the norm then. We were told not to jump the bywas but we all did it.

Comment by: Albert. on 18th May 2015 at 11:34

Jumped that by-wash many times Carolaen, in the late forties, very early fifties, going from my grandmother's in Ince Green Lane, to my uncle's, in Harper Street.

Comment by: Eric on 18th May 2015 at 12:28

Sorry Albert ,don't know that one ,we just called them coffee pots when we was kids trainspotting

Comment by: AB on 18th May 2015 at 13:26

Played around the turntable as a boy. If you crossed the canal at the lock at the bottom of Leigh St the footpath then had a bricked up pit shaft on the left and a fence on the right made of sleepers and behind which was the turn table No power to it, there was hand gear wheel

Comment by: baker on 27th May 2015 at 14:44

albert,wigan lower ince had a number of j10 class locos,which where lner locos based at 13g wli shed.these where used for coal/general goods trains on the gc line.
these locos did have tall tapering chimneys.
wigan lower ince closed in 1952 and most of its allocation of engines was transferred to springs branch.

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