Wigan Album

The engine is a Stanier 2-6-4T...the T indicates tank engine. These locomotives were ideal in reverse and worked the line well.
Well done DK.

Thats the Iron Bridge at Hindley number 2 box, the slag tip is the one at the top of Petticoat Laneon Helmfield road

I used to love standing on this bridge and being enveloped in smoke and steam from these trains

You are right, Aitch, about the slagtip. I thought that it was too big but I have found a further sequence of film which shows the slagheap, extensively across the horizon, John England's, then the little slaggie at the side of the Deep Pit and then two more pit heads in the fields and, what I think is, the Wutchie. I didn't realise just how big that slag heap was at the top of Belle Green Lane.

yes the slaggy as we used to call it was a very vast area, the hill in the picture is almost certainly turcle rock, that was the biggest mound of slag over there,if you got pics of the slag tip please show them dk,i would love to see them to show my children as i have tried to explaine to them what this fasanating amazing and dare i say it magical place this was.looking back we realy had it all compared to today,exploring tunnels,old brick buildings,a well which used blow the concrete top of every time we had heavy rain and big pond(which wasnt very big and about 12'' deep)were we catched newts and tadpoles by the thousand it realy was a brilliant place to grow up a play as a child....what would elf n safety say now days...keep out..keep away..danger of death...although we never came to any harm.....aaahhh them were the days