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By Alan Davies

positioned with regards to the Ellesmere Colliery, the Walkden backyard eventually turned the NCB relevant Workshops for Lancashire. From the following the workshops served the Bridgewater Trustees' collieries, delivering engineering help in addition to keeping the varied railway locomotives and the numerous countless numbers of wagons that the corporate owned. Opened in 1878, Walkden backyard transferred to the nationwide Coal Board upon nationalization after the second one global struggle and its significance grew because it served the opposite Lancashire collieries too. At Walkden there have been a desktop store, joiners' store, electricians' store, paint store, tinsmiths', locomotive fix store, wagon sheds and wagon laptop store. The backyard itself hired enormous quantities of fellows and boys yet was once closed in 1986 with the decline of the Lancashire coalfield. A housing property now sits atop the location of the Walkden backyard and it's challenging to recollect that the positioning as soon as serviced the various locomotives that belonged to the NCB, or that the Coal Board and its predecessors operated many locomotives over their very own traces in addition to the railway corporation ones and that an enormous used to be maintained at Walkden backyard, repairing locomotives and rolling inventory. during this publication, Alan Davies tells the tale of the Walkden backyard and the locomotives of the Lancashire coalfield.

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