Wigan Album
Springs Branch
8 CommentsPhoto: aitch
Item #: 21077
two years before i were born . them were the days .
My dad was a fitter at the branch and used to take me down on weekends and let me up on the footplate of the engines when they were going onto the turntable. He used to make me think I was actually driving it. Wonderful memories and it would have benn around '64 funnily enough
its a caprotti black five,think it may be a visitor cant recall any being based at the branch.built around 1949/50 and scrapped approx no later than 1965
It does look like a Caprotti, I worked on a few of these at Horwich Loco about 1953 or there abouts.
Thank you for the photograph aitch. I can still experience the distinctive smell of those steam locomotives,within my memory. Whether the constant smoke had any effect on us, living just a few hundred yards away,I am unaware. Thank the good Lord,I am still here anyway, to remember those happy times.
Fantastic picture. . . Love it!
lived across Warrington Rd from Springs Branch ,Spent years as a kid playing down Branch .Drivers used to let us on footplate going to Turntable ,we would work the turntable for the Drivef .What Health&Safety.Live near Bury now,they run steam trains every weekend the smell of the steam is great ,takes me back years, great days.
lived across Warrington Rd from Springs Branch ,Spent years as a kid playing down Branch .Drivers used to let us on footplate going to Turntable ,we would work the turntable for the Drivef .What Health&Safety.Live near Bury now,they run steam trains every weekend the smell of the steam is great ,takes me back years, great days.