Jeez....made this journey more than a few times between 1991 and 1997 when I was living in Manchester but travelling back to forth to North Wales to see family.

In 1987 I had digs in Warrington as I was attending the North Cheshire college, I lived in North Wales, & after leaving college I used to go back & visit friends in 1988. I missed the last train to Shotton the last train did not stop there. I spent a very cold night in the waiting room with a small gas fire. A big thank you to the station master of Warrington Bank Quay who said I could stay in the waiting room even though It was not permitted. Thanks, mate I said to Him. A night of laying on a bench with train noises & leaver brothers' washing powder factory made that night awful, cold but memorable & I did not get any sleep, but without the station master quietly turning a blind eye it would have been worse.

Lovely morning with frost on the sleepers and contrails cutting across the sky.

I remember a time in the early 60s, the school had arranged in the six weeks holiday a break to Scotland (loch Truel) for two weeks, the train we travelled up from Rotherham S Yorks took all day and it was a one with no corridor. The Tizer bottles came in handy.

i don't know how long that Sutton Tunnel is @ 13:04 but by God can you just imagine Victorian Navvies chiseling that one out with just their primative equipment of the day? the Early Railway tunnels of this country are no less glamourous to me than the pyramids of Egypt.

@ianwarburton2306

11 ай бұрын

Sutton Tunnel is 1 mile 154 yards long. Quite agree with you.

@peterwhitaker4038

11 ай бұрын

@@ianwarburton2306 thanks for the info on Sutton tunnel. And thanks for kind reply. Best wishes

Excellent, any more in the pipeline?

Is that a disused station at 12:50?

@ffrancrogowski2192

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Halton, closed in 1952. Sutton Tunnel also goes under another name, too, Halton Tunnel.