Wigan Album

I'm trying to fathom out whereabouts this photo would have been taken from?

Health and safety would go berserk today. Health and safety, IMO. I bet those people could happily stand on the bridge and photograph those trains and get a good shot. Now, as some will have recently noticed you can't even look over a footbridge and road bridge because they going around altering the walls so you can't see over them and look at the trains passing underneath the bridge. The rail fanatics will be having an hissy fit. They seem to be making life more and more restrictive by the day, you can't do this, can't go there, all in the excuse of health and safety, crime and "terrorism".

It was taken from walking off the old number 4 platform and going 50 yards on the track towards Standish!

Just north of the station. The 'Swan & railway' pub is on the extreme left and the locomotive is stood on the bridge over Wallgate.

Isn't that the Wheatsheaf pub on the right with Livesey's concrete yard behind.

A great nostalgic photo David, that station had more character than the one now.

Can't agree with you Cyril on the merits of the old North Western station. In my memory of it, it was a depressing dump.

I thought that at first Stuart. But if that is the Swan and Railway pub where were the two tall chimneys located at the back of it? Also where would the concrete mixing building on the right have been located? Going off the photo the building would have been located somewhere in the town centre!

The two chimneys I would say are Westwood power station Livsey's builders yard Queen Street

The photo is taken looking towards East.
For some of you that don't know where N-S-E-W is, looking towards Platt-Bridge.

Photo is looking south. Nice view of the old platform 10 at the old North Western.

who is taking my name in vain? I have nothing to do with that last comment.

David is spot on