61379 Mayflower
5168i St Helens North
PaulD Gaskell kindly gave this photo for publication.
A Northern Electric Class 319 heads north (right to left) over the stream at Gerards Bridge Junction. The junction itself is under the train's first or second carriage, we can see the end of its fourth carriage.
Paul's parents, never mind his grandparents, would no more recognise this sylvan setting than the dark side of the moon.
As recently as the late 1960s this would have been a barren industrial wasteland.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2015.
5168i St Helens North
PaulD Gaskell kindly gave this photo for publication.
A Northern Electric Class 319 heads north (right to left) over the stream at Gerards Bridge Junction. The junction itself is under the train's first or second carriage, we can see the end of its fourth carriage.
Paul's parents, never mind his grandparents, would no more recognise this sylvan setting than the dark side of the moon.
As recently as the late 1960s this would have been a barren industrial wasteland.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2015.