roy h Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 amazing how all this has gone apart form 2 abutments. in the above photo is there someone sat on the bridge above the tender of the first loco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted December 29, 2017 Author Share Posted December 29, 2017 Yes I think so. I think this is the last days of Heaton mersey shed when photographers flocked there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 The date was the 4th May 1968, 2 days before the end of steam at Heaton Mersey. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2018 some from me yesterday, also im my work thread cheadle heath station area the waterworks on the remaining curve between cheadle heath and northenden looking back towards the tiviot dale line from northenden direction, compare this to the picture of the box on the previous page nice milepost still in situ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 Another Ebay win. Down? Sidings at Heaton Mersey lifted with the bridges in my last shot in the background. Heaton Mersey Stockport by Michaeldelz, on Flickr 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Sadly even the former chocolate factory with the chimney was knocked down a few years ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 The view from roughly the same area nowadays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim76 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) Incredible 'before and after' photos with only the electricity pylons as a reference. I can recall the M63 motorway being built through Stockport and the disused sidings at George's Road still extant around this time. Edited January 21, 2018 by Jim76 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Another Ebay win. Down? Sidings at Heaton Mersey lifted with the bridges in my last shot in the background. Heaton Mersey Stockport by Michaeldelz, on Flickr Unfortunately not quite as good, taken with a box-Brownie, poor weather, and b&w film. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Incredible 'before and after' photos with only the electricity pylons as a reference. I can recall the M63 motorway being built through Stockport and the disused sidings at George's Road still extant around this time. Yeah, there was a rail connected scrap yard there with it's own shunter which I think was still open at around the time that the motorway was built. 40117 at Georges Road Scrap yard - 18th November, 1977 by Arnie Furniss, on Flickr 25184 on T29, Georges Rd scrap yard - June, 1978 by Arnie Furniss, on Flickr 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim76 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 When did the scrap yard close? I am aware the main line closed in 1982. Another cracking photograph here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/64731573@N05/9166865043 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) When did the scrap yard close? I am aware the main line closed in 1982. Another cracking photograph here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/64731573@N05/9166865043 I don't know, but I have seen an aerial photo of the site from 1982 and the scrap yard looks like it had already been cleared, so it may have been earlier than I first thought. I believe that the location was tripped using the 6T29 AKA Target 29 train, so perhaps someone with a Working timetable might be able to tell us. Edited January 22, 2018 by bennyboy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I don't know, but I have seen an aerial photo of the site from 1982 and the scrap yard looks like it had already been cleared, so it may have been earlier than I first thought. I believe that the location was tripped using the 6T29 AKA Target 29 train, so perhaps someone with a Working timetable might be able to tell us. started as a trb stockport area november 1981 target 29 covered bells waggon works stockport yard and northenden jn and could run as class 6,7,8 or occasionally 9 usually with a 25 on the front iirc never had it wired for Georges road so suspect it had closed by that time do remember that the track was extant tho the box was by this time a burned out shell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 started as a trb stockport area november 1981 target 29 covered bells waggon works stockport yard and northenden jn and could run as class 6,7,8 or occasionally 9 usually with a 25 on the front iirc never had it wired for Georges road so suspect it had closed by that time do remember that the track was extant tho the box was by this time a burned out shell In the thread below Jim76's post, it mentions that the line was closed by a cutting collapse from the M63 works, I remember you telling me this at the time. I can also remember that (going slightly OT) the section of motorway from the viaduct to the Lancashire Hill bridge was used as an overspill car park one Christmas, before it was opened. Parking in Stockport is still a nightmare; I've wondered about using my old fogey's travel pass to use the 330 to get there (if i was on my own)! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 (edited) 4f 44456 Stockport Tiviot Dale 11th April 1964 J W Sutherland. Edited February 5, 2018 by Michael Delamar 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 (edited) 42343 at Stockport Tiviot Dale. 13th march 1965 J.W.Sutherland. https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/650313mu.html Edited February 6, 2018 by Michael Delamar 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I've just found a couple of small pictures of the shunter at the George's Road scrapyard. From what information I can gather it seems to be one of those Hibberd Planet 4wDM locos No. 4006 which thankfully was preserved and ended up on Garw Valley Railway. Stockport Scrap by Alastair Wood, on Flickr Kodak Instamatic photo of Georges Road Scrapyard shunters - 1972 by Arnie Furniss, on Flickr 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted July 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2018 I've been to Decathlon in Stockport a couple of times recently to take a look at progress on the new bit of road to avoid the low bridge on Georges Road. The first was in April just after the work started and the second was earlier this month. The tunnel is rapidly becoming history. Photos C E Steele 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted August 29, 2018 Author Share Posted August 29, 2018 Lots of archive shots of Tiviot dale. http://old.stockport.gov.uk/sia/?classno=S/P%2069 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 65179 Posted August 29, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 29, 2018 Thanks for highlighting these Michael. It's been a good few years since I looked at the Stockport Library image archive although I spent a long time going through the card files in pre-digital days! Did you ever work out what route the Walton-Dringhouses freights took in the period you're modelling? Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 10, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2018 The west part of the tunnel is now history. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 It's still there just slumbering like Woodhead haha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted September 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2018 Yet another site to add to the "you wouldn't believe there was ever a railway here" file. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Yet another site to add to the "you wouldn't believe there was ever a railway here" file. Mike. It's becoming common but if all our towns and cities were full of derelict railway lines it wouldn't say much for progress. It surprises me that the route from Ardwick to Victoria still survives, that part of Manchester must still be waiting for it's building revolution. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 (edited) It's becoming common but if all our towns and cities were full of derelict railway lines it wouldn't say much for progress. It surprises me that the route from Ardwick to Victoria still survives, that part of Manchester must still be waiting for it's building revolution. Especially the bit of viaduct at the bottom of Ashton Old Road opposite viaduct Street ! unless its gone in the last few months. Not the bridge but the bit that carried the lines into the old yards near London Road (Piccadilly), have a look at some old maps and you'll see a lot of railway yards around there. The old midland line from Ashburys to Miles Platting is still well used. Northern etc use it a fair bit for movements to and from Newton Heath TMD(26A). Edited September 11, 2018 by johnd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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