Bolton Lancashire 29th June 1968
Last day of steam at Bolton shed, 29th June 1968. LMS Black 5 4-6-0 45260 is suitably decorated to mark The End & I am suitably decorated in jacket & tie!
The shed's concrete coaling plant looms over the proceedings on the right & the semaphore signals mark the ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway main line from Manchester Victoria. Bolton Trinity Street station is in the distance. Note the the proximity of the terrace housing on the left & the mill chimneys.
Bolton is a changed town today, the shed was demolished and this area is covered with 1980s housing on a road called "The Sheddings", presumably a strange combination of "Shed" & "Sidings".
My mate John and I had made a pilgrimage across from Thorne in South Yorkshire to visit the last sheds in the Manchester area - Patricroft, Newton Heath & Bolton which all closed on this day.
I have only just realised that while it might have been the last for Bolton shed this wasn't the last day for 45260 because I saw it on 1st August heading light engine past Burnley Rose Grove shed - without the chalk decorations. Three days later it finally did come to rest when steam was eliminated on BR.
Bolton Lancashire 29th June 1968
Last day of steam at Bolton shed, 29th June 1968. LMS Black 5 4-6-0 45260 is suitably decorated to mark The End & I am suitably decorated in jacket & tie!
The shed's concrete coaling plant looms over the proceedings on the right & the semaphore signals mark the ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway main line from Manchester Victoria. Bolton Trinity Street station is in the distance. Note the the proximity of the terrace housing on the left & the mill chimneys.
Bolton is a changed town today, the shed was demolished and this area is covered with 1980s housing on a road called "The Sheddings", presumably a strange combination of "Shed" & "Sidings".
My mate John and I had made a pilgrimage across from Thorne in South Yorkshire to visit the last sheds in the Manchester area - Patricroft, Newton Heath & Bolton which all closed on this day.
I have only just realised that while it might have been the last for Bolton shed this wasn't the last day for 45260 because I saw it on 1st August heading light engine past Burnley Rose Grove shed - without the chalk decorations. Three days later it finally did come to rest when steam was eliminated on BR.