Boar's Head
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Boar's Head
Image: © David Ashcroft Taken: 9 Jan 1982
47 489 hauling a Liverpool - Glasgow train. The train is just breasting the summit of Boar's Head bank which is a gradient of approximately 1 in 104 for 2 miles north bound out of Wigan. At the time these trains were diesel hauled between Liverpool and Preston where an electric loco would take over.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.572737
Longitude
-2.640096