IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
West Bank Dock Estate, WIDNES, WA8 0PE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to West Bank Dock Estate, WA8 0PE by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (21 Images Found)
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'Lucy' shunting the ICI sidings, Widnes ? 1967
'Lucy' was built by the Avonside Engineering Co. of Bristol (no.1568) in 1909 for the Hutchison Estate and Dock Co of Widnes who ran the West Bank Dock and a network of, at its height, around 12 miles of railway tracks. On being retired in 1971 she was preserved and currently resides at the Ribble Steam Railway in Preston https://ribblesteam.org.uk/exhibits/steam/avonside-1568-1909-lucy/
She is seen passing under the approach viaduct to the Runcorn Railway Viaduct. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3435310
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 22 Feb 1967
0.04 miles
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Eddie Stobart depot in Widnes
This is primarily a railfreight depot.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 22 May 2017
0.06 miles
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Railway viaduct in Widnes
The viaduct carries the line from Liverpool before its crossing of the Mersey.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 22 May 2017
0.08 miles
9
Chemical industry with railway locomotives at Widnes ? 1967
Inside the fence on the right is the McKechnie & Co chemical works. In the yard can be seen their shunting locomotive of the time. This was a Sentinel chain drive vertical boiler locomotive, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Waggon_Works#Railway_vehicles no.9381 of 1947, named 'Enterprise'.
Shunting in the foreground is one of British Railways' type 05 diesel shunters built by the Hunslet Engine Co, with a rake of mainly traditional timber-sided wagons.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 22 Feb 1967
0.12 miles
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Railway Viaduct, MacDermott Road
The rail viaduct is part of the northern approach to the Widnes-Runcorn railway bridge (Image]).
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 26 Apr 2013
0.12 miles