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Wigan North West Station

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Wigan NW station
Wigan NW station
Photo: Thomas Sutch
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Item #: 6442
Looking north from platform 4, 1969.

Comment by: Tony Glanfield on 21st July 2008 at 14:48

What a fabulous picture! Remember the opposite platform, 5. Waiting for the regulation trains to Blackpool in the 1960's.

Comment by: Fred Mason on 10th December 2008 at 20:00

and...stood there, at the end of the platform...trainspotting, all day long, with a bottle of cold tea and sarnies...ahhhhhhh.....

Comment by: Bill Eatock on 30th January 2009 at 15:06

I was a postman around that time and spent many an early morning unloading and loading mail on the trains on those drafty, windswept platforms.

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