Heywood Station: looking east with water crane
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Heywood Station: looking east with water crane by Dr Neil Clifton as part of the Geograph project.
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Heywood Station: looking east with water crane
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 14 Oct 2012
The track beyond this point is not in regular use, but is vital to the East Lancashire Railway as the only link to the national rail system, so is used for locomotive transfer purposes. The ELR is trying to extend its services to Castleton on the old L&Y main line between Manchester and Rochdale, but this is not easy as it would involve ELR running over metals used by other services, and joint use of Castleton Network Rail station, (or perhaps construction of a separate Castleton station for ELR trains). In Germany or Holland such problems would be easily resolved, but...this is England!
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Image Location
Latitude
53.588743
Longitude
-2.206773