Trackbed of the Wigan branch
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Trackbed of the Wigan branch
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 8 Apr 2013
The Great Central Railway, one of the constituent companies of the Cheshire Lines Committee, operated its own branch off the CLC main line at Glazebrook to serve the mining areas up to St Helens and Wigan. Although originally proposed by the CLC, the other two constituents were not interested, and the GCR went it alone. There was a triangular junction allowing the branch to be accessed from both the Liverpool and Manchester directions. In the foreground is the eastern curve, with the western leg being marked by the bank with two trees to the left hand side of the picture. The branch (latterly serving Wigan only) closed to passengers in 1964 and freight in 1968.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.427379
Longitude
-2.468601