Originally Posted by
HollyBlack
What I found significant in the newspaper report is that three "waggons" of coke were to be unloaded there.
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So for what purpose was this coke? Three waggons would presumably be perhaps 15 tons or 300 cwt bagfuls - enough to heat a smallish house (or hut or waiting room or perhaps more likely a signal box?) for an entire Winter easily.
Coke was not used to fuel steam locos, at least I don't think it was.
Holly, good point. I was mentally questioning whether the coke
was for Byrom St. It is a fair sized cutting now it is cleared it is easy to see.
I always wondered why it was never used for passengers, as the location was ideal. I concluded because it was to be used primarily as a runaway, so no full station was ever built. These days, well from the 1890s onwards, having a station there is no problem.
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