A580 approaching Pocket Nook junction (A579)
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A580 approaching Pocket Nook junction (A579)
Image: © Peter Whatley Taken: 24 Mar 2011
The road rises to the junction as the site was formerly a bridge over the railway whose trackbed is now used by the A579. The railway - the Tyldesley Loop - was one of the last lost under the Labour governments' decimation of Britain's passenger railways in the 1960s.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.471677
Longitude
-2.536431