Michael Delamar Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Some nice shots in this collection... https://www.branchline.uk/album-new.php?id=359 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Some nice shots in this collection... https://www.branchline.uk/album-new.php?id=359 Indeed, there's a nice shot of a train crossing the Mersey from the 70s?? over the now demolished bridge. A few other highlights are pictures of the narrow gauge railway at Gathurst and an oil train on the Haydock branch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy h Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 have been working at the new road site in stockport and was able to take a quick pick showing a small section of what is left of the tunnel under the viaduct. shame i have not been on site sooner. from what i could see this was close to the bottom level of the tunnel. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Now that's given me some back scene ideas for my layout thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted December 17, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2018 I have lived in Stockport all my life (67 years ) so found this thread intresting. I lived across the field from Brinnington Junction and watched all the railway activity here for many years. I was even lucky enough to go in the signal box with my brothers and throw a few levers. So I have dug out some of my black and white photos taken with a box brownie camera. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2018 I went and had a look this morning for some more of photographs around Stockport taken in the 1960's. They bring back happy memories of growing up in a far more simple world 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2018 What with the subject matter and the quality, (not to be taken as an insult), of the photographs there is atmosphere you can cut with a knife. Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) Enterprisingwestern, thank you for comments. I wasn't sure they would good enough to put on here. They have been in a draw for over 50 years without seeing the light of day. When I go,my daughters will probably put them in a skip along with all my models. I still have a few more if people want to see them otherwise they will return to the draw in my workshop. Mike Edited December 18, 2018 by airnimal 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2018 As historical documents they are invaluable whatever the quality, please ensure they go to a good home, I can think of one possibility on this very forum! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium t-b-g Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2018 Enterprisingwestern, thank you for comments. I wasn't sure they would good enough to put on here. They have been in a draw for over 50 years without seeing the light of day. When I go,my daughters will probably put them in a skip along with all my models. I still have a few more if people want to see them otherwise they will return to the draw in my workshop. Mike Yes please! A friend of mine is modelling Tiviot Dale station and any previously unseen photos are greatly appreciated for all the little details they include. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted December 19, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2018 I have dug out a few more photographs this morning. They are not very good quality but they may be of interest to someone. I will probably give these and other photographs to Stockport Library when I pop my clogs. I have donated some family ones already showing my grandfather plowing the fields in Brinnington with horses before the first war. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted December 24, 2018 Author Share Posted December 24, 2018 In my 1960 shedbook I note that Heaton Mersey had 3 class 08 shunters allocated to it. Never seen any photos of them, and I dont think that they even made it to George St goods, let alone Tiviot Dale station. Numbers were D3852-4 inclusive for the record. Anone got any images out there?? On a b&r video DVD (cant recall which one at the moment) there is black and white footage of a green one passing through Northenden station with a train of cement wagons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Blandford1969 Posted December 24, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2018 Very interesting angles on the station, thanks for sharing them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim76 Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Indeed, there's a nice shot of a train crossing the Mersey from the 70s?? over the now demolished bridge. Yes it is a nice shot though the description says it is a Class 25 it looks more like a Class 24 to me. You can also see the now demolished tower block of Manchester Polytechnic’s Royal Ford Hall of Residence (off Parrs Wood Lane) in the background. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted January 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2019 I have found a few more shots around Stockport Tiviot Dale station and Brinnington Junction. They were all taken by me as a young schoolboy. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I have dug out a few more photographs this morning. They are not very good quality but they may be of interest to someone. I will probably give these and other photographs to Stockport Library when I pop my clogs. I have donated some family ones already showing my grandfather plowing the fields in Brinnington with horses before the first war. Is the first photo a shot of the old engine shed at Tiviot Dale? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 (edited) Having driven through Stockport on the M60 not three hours ago, virtually nothing on that third last photo., of the goods going through the wreckage of the station, is still in existence. Edited January 21, 2019 by 62613 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium airnimal Posted January 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2019 Penrith Beacon, Yes indeed it does show the remains of the engine shed. When the station was demolished a coupe of light fingered chaps were caught stealing the large copper ball cock, it was in all the local newspapers. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul 27 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 (edited) Looks like a MK4 Zodiac by the lamp post, my Dad had one just like that around this time in Silver Fox, could have been his not many seen around Manchester in this colour in the 60s. Edited January 21, 2019 by paul 27 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 (edited) Penrith Beacon, Yes indeed it does show the remains of the engine shed. When the station was demolished a coupe of light fingered chaps were caught stealing the large copper ball cock, it was in all the local newspapers. Mike A most unusual photo,thanks for that. Edited January 21, 2019 by PenrithBeacon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 65179 Posted January 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2019 (edited) Really interesting photos. Thanks for posting them. Views such as that with the 9F above showing the 'other' warehouse at Portwood are pretty rare. I've only come across one or two showing the railway side frontage as a backdrop to a 4F etc on the Portwood shunt. The goods warehouse right alongside the loops and opposite the coal drops is slightly better photographed. Now I've written this I've just had a look at Britain from Above and found this: https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW002113 . Portwood Gas Works in the background helps work out the direction in which the photograph was taken. Simon Edited January 22, 2019 by 65179 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Really interesting photos. Thanks for posting them. Views such as that with the 9F above showing the 'other' warehouse at Portwood are pretty rare. I've only come across one or two showing the railway side frontage as a backdrop to a 4F etc on the Portwood shunt. The goods warehouse right alongside the loops and opposite the coal drops is slightly better photographed. Now I've written this I've just had a look at Britain from Above and found this: https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW002113 . Portwood Gas Works in the background helps work out the direction in which the photograph was taken. Simon Comparing that aerial photo with the one with the 9F seems to suggest that two thirds of the shed had been demolished by that time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 65179 Posted January 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2019 (edited) Perhaps, but I think it's more likely that the lower angle hides the two thirds of the cotton shed (I've fished out my copy of Greg Fox's book on Tiviot Dale etc) that is lower than the portion atop the embankment. It's an odd arrangement and one of those buildings where it would be fascinating to know how it was worked! Feb 1968 is the date I've seen for demolition of the adjacent goods warehouse. I don't have a date for the cotton shed. I spent longer than I care to calculate looking at record cards in Stockport Library in the early 1990s as my brother, a friend and I planned an N Gauge layout of STD and the line past Portwood drops up to this shed. Sadly it never got finished as university intervened. Simon Edited January 22, 2019 by 65179 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul 27 Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Pictures of 60s track machines are scarce even more so on this line any more to show. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted August 16, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 16, 2019 The Georges Road end of the tunnel at Stockport is now completely history. This was last week. For completeness I'm reposting a few in sequence going back in time 9th September 2018 6th July 2018 4th April 2018 And from the same spot on 14th July 2014 6 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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