Kearsley Power Station
One of 4 steeple-cab electrics that worked on the short but very steeply graded branch line from the exchange sidings adjacent to the ex L&Y Manchester to Bolton line to the power station in the background. I'm not sure which one of the 4 this is - I can't read the number. It was taken on a visit by Manchester University Railway Society (who kindly invited us Manchester Poly students to come along). I think it was March '75. The locos - at least some of them - were serviceable but I think coal deliveries and generation had all but ceased by then - this is borne out by the lack of wagons and rust on the rails. A class 25 scurries past with a brake van, engaged on some mission of its own. No trace of the power station or the railway remains today. Zenith B, CT18.
Kearsley Power Station
One of 4 steeple-cab electrics that worked on the short but very steeply graded branch line from the exchange sidings adjacent to the ex L&Y Manchester to Bolton line to the power station in the background. I'm not sure which one of the 4 this is - I can't read the number. It was taken on a visit by Manchester University Railway Society (who kindly invited us Manchester Poly students to come along). I think it was March '75. The locos - at least some of them - were serviceable but I think coal deliveries and generation had all but ceased by then - this is borne out by the lack of wagons and rust on the rails. A class 25 scurries past with a brake van, engaged on some mission of its own. No trace of the power station or the railway remains today. Zenith B, CT18.