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Ashtonman01said:

"Does anyone know anything about this footage, where it came from and whether any more footage was filmed?"

My thoughts on when this was filmed.

In the film both Haydock Park and the Ashton in Makerfield Stations are obviously still open, because passenger trains were still running on the line, so the film was filmed before the 3rd March 1952, when passenger services were withdrawn from that line, after that only 'Race Day Special' trains stopped at both those stations, but that was not a 'Race Day Special' because there were only a few passengers, so it was definitely filmed before the 3rd March 1952, but looking at the state of Haydock Park Station, I would say that the closure of the line to passengers was imminent, and the reason that the person who filmed that film, filmed it, was to record a visual history of that line, before it closed.

The factory with the smoking chimney, which was across the fields from Haydock Park Station, that will have been Makerfield Mill.

Before such lines were closed, a six month closure notice would be issued by British Rail, that means the passenger closure notice will have been made on the 3rd September 1951, in the film the vegetation and the way people are dressed, suggests that it was filmed during the summer months, so I would say that film could have been filmed in September 1951