Mode Wheel 4
The Manchester Ship Canal operated a railway system which served a variety of industries along the route of the canal, at one time being the country’s largest private railway. It was dieselised with most of the locos coming from Hudswell Clarke, although a number of Rolls Royce Sentinels were later purchased.
My second visit to Mode Wheel workshops was on 12th September 1981, by when there were a few more weeds and a few less locos.
This building was once the main workshops here but had lost its roof and doors in the 1970s and was just used as a dump for failed or withdrawn locos. Hudswell Clarke’s D2 and D7 are seen on the left, with much dismantled Sentinel DH22 in the centre road.
Mode Wheel 4
The Manchester Ship Canal operated a railway system which served a variety of industries along the route of the canal, at one time being the country’s largest private railway. It was dieselised with most of the locos coming from Hudswell Clarke, although a number of Rolls Royce Sentinels were later purchased.
My second visit to Mode Wheel workshops was on 12th September 1981, by when there were a few more weeds and a few less locos.
This building was once the main workshops here but had lost its roof and doors in the 1970s and was just used as a dump for failed or withdrawn locos. Hudswell Clarke’s D2 and D7 are seen on the left, with much dismantled Sentinel DH22 in the centre road.