Appleton, Widnes, Black 5 (Widnes Dock - Sutton Manor Colliery) January 1962 Photo: E.N.Bellass.
A unidentified Black 5 slogs up the stiff grade away from Widnes passing the site of the former Appleton station with a long rake of coal empties returning to Sutton Manor Colliery near St Helens.
To the right a thriving rail connected former saw mill that was by then a paint manufacturer and to the left the Commercial Hotel on Page Lane.
Appleton Station closed to passengers in 1950 but was remarkably intact when Eddie took this shot in January 1962.
* This is the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway and dates to 1833, the line was singled in 1975 and the last freight traversed the route in 1981. Today the A557 Watkinson Way connecting the M62 to Widnes town centre and Runcorn exists here being constructed in the 1990's.
Appleton, Widnes, Black 5 (Widnes Dock - Sutton Manor Colliery) January 1962 Photo: E.N.Bellass.
A unidentified Black 5 slogs up the stiff grade away from Widnes passing the site of the former Appleton station with a long rake of coal empties returning to Sutton Manor Colliery near St Helens.
To the right a thriving rail connected former saw mill that was by then a paint manufacturer and to the left the Commercial Hotel on Page Lane.
Appleton Station closed to passengers in 1950 but was remarkably intact when Eddie took this shot in January 1962.
* This is the St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway and dates to 1833, the line was singled in 1975 and the last freight traversed the route in 1981. Today the A557 Watkinson Way connecting the M62 to Widnes town centre and Runcorn exists here being constructed in the 1990's.