Gathurst
Narrow gauge interchange alongside Gathurst station in November 1978 with 25105, on a pick up freight, shunting gunpowder vans in a frosty Gathurst yard while the coal empties from Southport stand on the running line. The yard was linked by a narrow gauge railway that crossed the Douglas Valley on a steel viaduct (off to the right), to a nearby Nobel's explosives factory. See image 21337. The Industrial Railway Society 1973 handbook shows a fleet of six 4wDM Ruston gauge locos were based here and some narrow gauge wagons can be seen outside the transhipment shed. One of these wagons is being reconstructed by the Moseley Railway Trust in Staffordshire to work alongside one of the Gathurst Rustons, No.7, also preserved there. Gathurst station can still be seen from the M6 motorway viaduct in the background but the yard and narrow gauge line are no more.
Location: Gathurst
Original line: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Photographer: Mark Bartlett
Contact photographer: Mark Bartlett
Date: 28/11/1978
Image number: 21338
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