Shed Side in South Lancashire & Cheshire

The Last Days of Steam

Kenn Pearce

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2011
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9780750973946
• Subtopic: Rail Transportation
• Index: Technology & Engineering

In the 1950s and 1960s south Lancashire and Cheshire was criss-crossed by a web of railway lines, servicing the various needs of local industries. The region was a haven for railway enthusiasts who pursued the hundreds of steam workhorses based at British Railways depots in "chemical towns" such as Warrington, Widnes, Wigan, and Sutton Oak, besides Southport and Northwich. While these facilities appeared less glamorous than larger counterparts in Liverpool or Manchester, the stories of the engines, trains, and the men who were based at the depots in these towns was no less fascinating. Shed Side in Lancashire & Cheshire provides a fascinating portrait of the daily operations of the freight and passenger trains of the region during the final decade of Britain's steam era. It evokes a period of grimy, metal-clattering, smoke-filled industry, and of an era forever etched in the country's industrial heritage.

Table of contents

• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Glossary
• One: 8B WARRINGTON DALLAM AND ARPLEY (SUB-SHED)
• Two: 8D WIDNES AND WIDNES TANHOUSE LANE (CLC SUB-SHED)
• Three: 8E NORTHWICH
• Four: 8F SPRINGS BRANCH (WIGAN)
• Five: 8G SUTTON OAK
• Six: 8M SOUTHPORT AND LORD STREET (CLC)SHED
• Seven: 8P WIGAN ‘C’ (L&YR)
• Eight: 10F WIGAN LOWER INCE
• Nine: Ormskirk
• Appendix 1: Shed Track Plans
• Appendix 2: Steam Locomotive Allocations for South Lancashire and Cheshire 1947–1968
• Appendix 3: Steam Locomotives that Survived into Preservation
• Appendix4: Shed Logs
• Appendix5: Southport Motive Power Depot Enginemen 1945–1966
• Appendix 6: Stan Morris’s Firing Log 1928-1932 at Lower Ince and Altrincham Sheds
• End Notes
• Further Reading