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Bury and Tottington District Railway

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Bury Castlecroft Goods

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I remember this Barclay 0-4-0ST arriving at Helmshore station in 1970, as the first steam locomotive owned by the East Lancashire Railway Preservation ...
Mark Bartlett 01/09/2022

East Lancashire Railway Autumn Steam Gala with a LYR Theme.
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Stephen Willetts 16/10/2022

Part of the display of road vehicles in the ELR's Bury Transport Museum in September 2021. In 2022, some of the displays had to be removed to ...
Veronica Clibbery 22/09/2021

The weekend of 18th/19th June 2022 was a LYR/LNWR Amalgamation Gala. A cameo of shunting in Castlecroft Yard involved LYR Pug No 19 and the wagon has ...
Stephen Willetts 19/06/2022

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Tottington Junction

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East Lancashire Railway

Tottington Junction was the point where the Holcombe Brook branch left the Bury to Ramsbottom line and there was a signal box situated by the ...
Mark Bartlett 01/01/2011

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Woodhill Road Halt was the first stop on the Holcombe Brook branch after leaving the East Lancashire line at Tottington Junction. Situated in a Bury ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 04/05/1952

L&YR 2-4-2T 50651, with a 26D Bury shedplate on its smokebox, calls at the small Woodhill Road Halt on its way to Holcombe Brook on the last day of ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 04/05/1952

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Brandlesholme Road Halt

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This is the view towards Woolfold from the site of Brandlesholme Road Halt 21749 in July 2021. Completion of the bridge over the Kirklees Brook at ...
Mark Bartlett 03/07/2021

An attempt at a Then and Now comparison with image 21571 at Brandleshlome Road after walking the Kirklees Trail on the Holcombe Brook ...
Mark Bartlett 03/07/2021

Holcombe Brook bound push pull set with L&YR 2-4-2T 50655 climbing through the cutting between Woodhill Rd Halt and Brandleshome Rd Halt (SD 797117). ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 03/05/1952

A view looking towards Bury at Brandlesholme Road Halt. The distant signal will be for the home signal protecting Tottington junction and the East ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 05/02/1952

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Woolfold

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Looking up the gradient towards Woolfold station site, along the trackbed Kirklees Trail, on 3rd July 2021. The bridge in the foreground was opened in ...
Mark Bartlett 03/07/2021

The last train, a goods service from Tottington, ran over Woolfold Viaduct, a five arch stone structure, in 1963 and it was demolished in 1977. This ...
Mark Bartlett 03/07/2021

There is still some snow on the ground as 50731 pulls its autocoach into Woolfold station on its way from Bury Bolton Street to Holcombe Brook, the ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 03/02/1952

Despite the 57 year interval, standing on the cutting side it was easy to imagine 50651 pounding away from Woolfold towards Holcombe Brook See image ...
Mark Bartlett 13/12/2008

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Sunny Wood Halt

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Tottington

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The view towards Bury through the site of Tottington station, showing the old platform face on the right and the track bed, now a cycleway and ...
Mark Bartlett 26/05/2009

Tottington station is the only one on the former Holcombe Brook branch to retain significant remnants. In this view towards the terminus the concrete ...
Mark Bartlett 26/05/2009

The station at Tottington, almost 57 years after the last passenger train called, but with the platform remains still in place. This view is towards ...
Mark Bartlett 13/12/2008

It looks like there was an intention to double the line later when the Holcombe Brook branch was built in 1882. This is Tottington viaduct with its ...
Mark Bartlett 13/12/2008

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Knowles Level Crossing Halt

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Greenmount

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A view towards Bury from the filled in overbridge at the site of Greenmount station, last stop before the Holcombe Brook branch terminus. The single ...
Mark Bartlett 26/10/2013

Greenmount, penultimate station on the Holcombe Brook branch, closed in 1952 and the last goods train passed through in 1960. The bridge and platform ...
Mark Bartlett 26/10/2013

Greenmount station, looking towards Holcombe Brook, and probably taken around 1960 when freight services to that village had ceased and the line cut ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) //1960

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Holcombe Brook

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Another last weekend of services picture on the Holcombe Brook branch of the Bury and Tottington District Railway, but unfortunately it is also the ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 03/05/1952

Cam Camwell's visits to the Holcombe Brook branch were made at weekends and so the pick up freight workings were not captured. At this time they would ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 03/05/1952

Last day of passenger services picture at the Holcombe Brook terminus, taken from the end of the platform just beyond the signal box. Two coach push ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) 03/05/1952

Another 1905 view of the then new railmotor service at Holcombe Brook terminus. Here the crew poses in front of what we would now think of as the ...
W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett) //1905

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Illustrated Historical Survey of the Railways in and Around Bury

Roads and Rails of Manchester

Bury and Tottington District Railway

Locations along the line

Bury Castlecroft Goods

Tottington Junction

Woodhill Road Halt

Brandlesholme Road Halt

Woolfold

Sunny Wood Halt

Tottington

Knowles Level Crossing Halt

Greenmount

Holcombe Brook

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