Ashley
66089 runs through Ashley in Cheshire on 23rd December 2021, working waste transfer wagons from Knowsley near Kirkby to Wilton on Teesside. These trains come off the Kirkby branch at Wigan Wallgate but rather than go direct through Manchester Victoria they head down the WCML to Hartford before joining this line to Altrincham. They then run through Stockport, Denton, Ashton Moss and Miles Platting before eventually gaining the Calder Valley route towards Yorkshire, an extra forty miles on the journey but avoiding Platting bank. Empties to Knowsley take the direct route.
Location: Ashley
Original line: Cheshire Midland Railway
Photographer: Mark Bartlett
Contact photographer: Mark Bartlett
Date: 23/12/2021
Image number: 79452
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