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Wigan Central Station
Wigan Central Station
Photo: David Brown
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Item #: 31189
44671 passing through

Comment by: Rev David Long on 2nd May 2019 at 18:27

"Passing through" a terminus? Is it the Hogwarts Express?

Comment by: Colin Harlow on 2nd May 2019 at 18:32

Not passing through, the is Wigan Central the start of the journey to Manchester just before closure in 1964.

Comment by: Albert.S. on 3rd May 2019 at 19:20

I recollect that a number of the locomotives using this line, had a distinctive funnel, shaped somewhat like a dunces hat, with the wide base at the top.

Comment by: Albert.S. on 4th May 2019 at 09:50

Wasn’t, this line a L.N.E.R.line?.

Comment by: baker on 4th May 2019 at 22:26

this picture and others on here are from bob pictons excellent book railways around wigan.
albert the funny locos where l.n.e.r class j10,s that where shedded at lower ince depot situated between the manley hotel and rock rock pub,now an housing estate/ that was previously a supermarket,whose name escapes me ,but we frequently visited.

Comment by: Ks on 5th May 2019 at 09:30

Kwik save.

Comment by: Albert.S. on 5th May 2019 at 11:43

Baker. So very many large housing estates have been developed all around large towns, such has been the case in Wigan. For a person still living in the proximity, it must be more difficult to assimilate their previous knowledge of various areas, having lived through all of these changes, than a person that hasn’t, and had long since moved away. I remember the depot that you refer to. Just down the street, where the Manley was situated, there was a row of houses, facing this depot.

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