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Tue 01 Apr 2025
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Sat 26 Apr 2025
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Mid day cycled to Brinscall HIllside Church Hall to an
exhibition by Chorley & District Model Railway Club. There was
an excellent model of the Brinscall Railway Station which I
remember as a boy. Also tea & cake!. |
Hillside. |
British Railways Brinscall |
The railway through Brinscall
came about by the Wigan mine owners wanting to market their coal
in East Lancashire. A bill authorising a line from Wigan to
Adlington was passed in July 1864, and the railway was called
the Land shire Union. At the same time the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway obtained powers to build a line from Chorley
to Cherry Tree in Blackburn. The two companies decided that
these two lines would come under their joint ownership.
The line was opened on 1st December 1869.
In 1883 the
Lancashire Union company became jointly owned by the London and
North Western Railway (LNWR) and the Lancashire and Yorkshire
(L&Y) railways.
The passenger trains on the Wigan to
Adlington were run by the LNWR, but on the section from Chorley
to Blackburn, both companies ran trains. In 1922 the two
companies merged, prior to the grouping of railways in 1923,
when they became part of the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS)
railway. This in turn became part of the newly formed British
Railways in 1948.
The line closed to passengers on 4th
January 1960 and to goods in 1966.
Brinscall is at the summit
of the line at 588 feet about sea level. The gradient on the
Chorley side is 1 in 65, and steeper still on the Blackburn side
where it descended at 1 in 60.
Passenger Services.
Apart
from local services, from 1885 until about 1910 through
carriages between Blackburn and London Euston were run by the
LNWR, before being rerouted via Bolton.
Between 1922 and 1939
there was a direct train which ran on Saturdays from Colne to
Llandudno.
Services varied over the years, but as an example
in 1955 there were 12 trains going to Blackburn Monday to
Friday, 14 on Saturdays and 3 on Sundays. There was one train
from Liverpool, departing there at 6 am Mondays to Saturdays,
and one Saturday train from Horwich. The other trains started in
Wigan or Chorley. Going in the other direction, one Saturday
train ran through to Bolton.
Fares
The 1939 fares to
London from Brinscall were 27/2, i.e. 27 shillings and 2 pence
which approximates to £1.37 in decimal currency. 3rd class was,
45/3 (£2.30) first class.
In 1950 the fares were 42/1,
(£2.12). 3rd class was 70/2 (£3.51)
In 1958 the fare to
London Euston was 14/6 (72.5p) second class, 51/9 (£2.60) first
class. Cheaper than 1939!
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Brinscall. |
The Regal Cinema. |
Brinscall. |
Checking the line. |
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Fri 25 Apr 2025
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A morning visit to the old steam crane in Jumbles Quarry above
Stocks Reservoir, Slaidburn. |
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Sun 20 Apr 2025
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Here's me at work about 38 years
ago. |
I still have the cardigan.
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Fri 18 Apr 2025
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Jason cutting path ready for power
cable. |
The cut path. |
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Thu 17 Apr 2025
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Meccano Bridge. |
Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal.
The Meccano Bridge
was designed and built by Liam Curtin in 2012. It is made of
scaled up 10times meccano.
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Meccano picnic table. |
Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal.
Back in 1999 I saw Fred
Dibnah describing the Mount Sion Steam Crane on the canal near
Radcliffe. He remembered visiting it with his Dad and described
how it was used to unload coal from the canal barges and lower
it to the paper Mull down the embankment below. It's only taken
me 26 years to get round to visiting the crane which is now
grade 2 listed. The crane was made by Thomas Smith of Leeds and
the only similar crane I know of is located above Slaidburn and
was used for the construction of the Stocks Reservoir scheme to
provide drinking water for the Fyle and Blackpool in 1932. |
Mount Sion Steam Crane. |
Mount Sion Steam Crane. |
On the towpath.
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The Slaidburn Steam Crane.
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A nice evening view of the Cherry
Blossoms on School Brow. |
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Tue 15 Apr 2025
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Another visit to Chorley Cemetery. The datestone 1856,
nobody knows for sure what the C.C. stands for.
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John and members of Chorley
Historical Society. |
Cemetery gatehouse 1856.
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1856 C.C.
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Sat 12 Apr 2025
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A big thanks to John Harrison of Chorley Historical Society for
a conducted tour of Chorley Cemetery this morning. John told us
about the various memorials & graves to the great & the good &
not so good. Mill owners, lawyers & doctors who made Chorley
what it is. All fascinating stuff.
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John and members of Chorley
Historical Society. |
By the Lawence family memorial. |
Chorley Cemetery. |
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Wed 09 Apr 2025
Chorley Cemetery. |
Grave of Richard Smethurst. |
Grave of Richard Smethurst. |
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Tue 08 Apr 2025
Chorley sign at the Astley Village
Centre. |
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Mon 07 Apr 2025
Judging the Annual Photo Competition
at Chorley Photographic Society. |
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Fri 04 Apr 2025
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Today was Uncle Roy’s funeral but unfortunately something
important came up and I was unable to attend.
Roy Wilding.
(2nd Jan 1926 - 9th Mar 2025)
Funeral at Charnock Richard
Crematorium 15:30
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Roy Wilding.
(2nd Jan 1926 - 9th Mar 2025) |
Uncle Roy |
Uncle Roy with cousin Doreen.
Sat 22nd Oct 2022 at
Park Street Chapel, Chorley.
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Thu 03 Apr 2025
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A new pair of Peter Storm boots from Go Outdoors. |
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Recently erected clock on Waterhouse Green,
Whittle-le-Woods. |
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