Lymm Station
This photograph taken by Bill Todd is dated 1975 and the diesel unit is pulling passenger coaches at Whitbarrow Crossing. However, passenger transport at Lymm Station had long since ceased. A member of 'Lymm Memories' has since noted:
'The train is a diverted Manchester to Birmingham express. The line was often used as a diversionary route on Sundays due to engineering works elsewhere. It would have run Manchester Piccadilly, Stockport, Northenden, Skelton Junction Timperley to Warrington Arpley and the WCML to Crewe and beyond. Nowadays it would be a bus!
The train reporting number 1G61 gives the working away (this system of displaying the train reporting number or "headcode" on Locomotives or Multiple Units was disbanded in 1976. The engine is a class 47 diesel locomotive aka Brush type 4'.
What a great and detailed piece of information from the Lymm Memories website.
(Lymm Station sign came up for auction a few years ago. By then it was a piece of rotting wood with a separate bag of letters. It went for £200 and if the buyer is someone local, the Heritage Centre would love to see it).
Image details
| Location | Lymm Station |
|---|---|
| Photographer | Bill Todd |
| Donor | Kathleen Rees |
| Era | 1975 |
| Medium | Colour slide |
| Image Reference | LH03619 |
| Copyright Owner | Bill Todd |
