Originally Posted by
mike delamar
Hi Hollyblack, ive seen lots of pics of the area in the 1950s but have never seen anything of water troughs. is this the area you mean by the entrance to the shed? seems odd that they would be so close to a terminus station ...
Originally Posted by
HollyBlack
Yes, I have always thought it odd too.
And no-one else is reported as having any recollection.
But I'm having trouble believing I imagined it!
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Your photo is, I believe where the Chat Moss line diverges from the Runcorn Gap line and where I waited (in the 1950s) in a "side corridor" coach many a time waiting for the road into Lime Street. As I recall it the water troughs were parallel to and to the North of the line on which my train traveled and on a straight section between the curve in the photo and the platforms at Edge Hill station.
Well perhaps we will get the the bottom of the mystery one day. (If) there were water troughs there surely must be photos of them somewhere.
It would appear so, I was reminiscing with a relative on the telephone who suddenly blurted out. "They weren't at Edge Hill, silly. They were at Ditton."
And so they were, the Crewe stopping train used to sit waiting for the road at Ditton, just as it did at Edge Hill. And the water troughs were there, near Ditton Junction where the train stood endlessly waiting for the signal in the 1950s. I had confused the two places for waiting on the same trips.
Now I just need to track down a photo or two of the water troughs at Ditton.
L&NWR installed gear I think.
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