Resignalling Special #10 Final Checks
The New Measurement Train slowly creeps past Talacre 'box working 1Q30 Derby RTC-Crewe via the world on 22 March 2018.
Talacre controlled trains in and out of Point of Ayr colliery until closure in 1993, the track on the left was originally the up slow and in it's final years of use became a long headshunt to get trains in and out of the reception sidings, on the left beyond the bridge.
A small corner is now taken up by the gas terminal for the Douglas platform a few miles out into Liverpool Bay. The rest of the site is just an industrial wasteland, rusty sidings leading to grassy heaps of rubble where buildings once stood and it's now hard to discern where the shaft stood.
Stood in this spot 30 years ago there's a pretty good chance there would be a rake of HAA's on the track with a 56 or maybe a pair of 20's, another load of black diamonds ready for the one way trip to the burners of Fiddler's Ferry.
Now, passing trains excepted, it's almost eerily quiet. And come Monday with no bells, no clunky points and long wires, and no interlocking levers, it'll be quieter still.
Resignalling Special #10 Final Checks
The New Measurement Train slowly creeps past Talacre 'box working 1Q30 Derby RTC-Crewe via the world on 22 March 2018.
Talacre controlled trains in and out of Point of Ayr colliery until closure in 1993, the track on the left was originally the up slow and in it's final years of use became a long headshunt to get trains in and out of the reception sidings, on the left beyond the bridge.
A small corner is now taken up by the gas terminal for the Douglas platform a few miles out into Liverpool Bay. The rest of the site is just an industrial wasteland, rusty sidings leading to grassy heaps of rubble where buildings once stood and it's now hard to discern where the shaft stood.
Stood in this spot 30 years ago there's a pretty good chance there would be a rake of HAA's on the track with a 56 or maybe a pair of 20's, another load of black diamonds ready for the one way trip to the burners of Fiddler's Ferry.
Now, passing trains excepted, it's almost eerily quiet. And come Monday with no bells, no clunky points and long wires, and no interlocking levers, it'll be quieter still.