EPW058275 ENGLAND (1938). The Premier Box Co on Worsley Street and environs, Manchester, 1938

Travelling crane

Bertram Thomas ltd (1960;s)Has anyone further details of this company?

kingpin flour mill which ( back in the 1960's) was still taking in grain direct from narrowboats on the bridgewater canal

access to river medlock/irwell

The long warren girder structure carrying the north pair of lines still stands (in 2013) and the foundation for an urban woodland.

The Cheshire Lines Committee route to Manchester Central. After the amalgamation of the railways in 1923 the CLC was jointly owned the London Midland and Scottish taking 1/3 share and the London and North Eastern taking 2/3 share. The line is still open but reduced to the two nearest tracks which are also now electrified.

The electrified lines of the Manchester South Junction and Altricham Railway. This route was operated by a joint committee of the London Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North East Railway. Despite the latter being interested in electrification at 1500v dc, defined as the national preferred system in a report published in 1928, most of the electrification work and the provision of the multiple unit trains was under the direction of the former. In the early years of British Railways the route from Manchester to Sheffield was electrified with the same system before it was decided to set 25Kv ac as the standard for railway electrification. (The Dutch chose to electrify at 1500v dc and never changed, as be the time technical developments had come about most of they network was electrified!)

'Daily Dispatch .. Daily Sketch'

Supports for overhead electrification?

Swing bridge

Lock

Narrow boat

Narrow boat