The LMS and LNER in Manchester
- The LMS and LNER in Manchester
- At the time of the Grouping in 1923, Manchester had five main line stations including Mayfield. In addition, the Manchester South Junction & Altrincham suburban line also had stations in the city at London Road and Oxford Road. Within easy reach of the city were six large engine sheds. LMS motive power was stabled at Longsight, Patricroft, Newton Heath and Agecroft, while that of the LNER received attention at Gorton. At the Cheshire Lines Committee's depot at Trafford Park, locomotives of both companies could be seen together and Manchester's Exchange station even played host to the occasional Great Western locomotive working through from Chester.
- When the activites of the Manchester Ship Canal Railway and of Trafford Park Estates network are considered in conjunction with the variety of main line traffic, it is difficult to imagine a more varied panorama of locomotive, rolling stock and general railway interest outside london.
- In The LMS and LNER in Manchester lifelong enthusiast Eric Rose provides a fascinating record of the scene between the wars when pre-Grouping motive power could be observed alongside its more modern counterparts, and the role of the railways as the primary mode if inland passenger and freight transport had yet to be challenged seriously. Based on author's extensive observations and notes made over the years, The LMS and LNER in Manchester is illustrated with more than 140 contemporary photographs of remarkable quality, together with detailed track plans of a selection of the stations and motive power depots in the area.
- 128 pages, 1987, Case bound, 7" x 9½"
- Ian Allan Publishing
- ISBN 0711017085
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