Bury Knowsley Street
Crossing the hump. As part of the ELR extension from Bury to Heywood in the 1990s, a bridge was built to span the Metrolink tracks from Bury Interchange, requiring trains between Bury Bolton Street and Heywood to tackle a 1 in 36 gradient in order to cross the busy route from Manchester Victoria. The bridge is referred to locally as the hump. The photograph is taken from the window of a train heading west towards Bolton Street on the ELR behind 55022 Royal Scots Grey as it traverses the hump on 5 July 2009. (The bridge stands on the site of the former Bury Knowsley Street station, where, for at short period in the early 1980s, following the opening of the new Bury Interchange station, a flat crossing existed.) See image 45436
Location: Bury Knowsley Street (former)
Original line: Liverpool and Bury Railway (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Photographer: Colin Alexander
Contact photographer: Colin Alexander
Date: 05/07/2009
Image number: 24666
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