British Railways The English Electric Company Limited Type 3 Co-Co class 37/5 diesel-electric locomotive number 37707 of Immingham Traction Maintenance Depot passes Brewery Sidings signal box 3 signal with the additional 10:30 Ellesmere Port Sidings to Leeds Shell Sidings oil train (6Z36) while the 71000 Steam Locomotive Limited’s former British Railways Riddles ‘Standard’ 8P 4-6-2 locomotive number 71000 DUKE OF GLOUCESTER of Crewe North Motive Power Depot stands on the Up Connecting Line with an additional Keighley & Worth Valley Railway to Bury East Lancashire Railway empty coaching stock (5Z33). Friday 25th February 1994
Brewery Sidings signal box 3 signal (Down Main Home) with Thorpes Bridge Junction signal box 7R signal (repeater for 7 signal) below it is carried on a London Midland and Scottish Railway two doll balanced bracket carried on a lattice main stem is along with 7 signal (Down Main Home To Down Goods) with Thorpes Bridge Junction signal box’s Down Goods fixed distant signal below it.
On the right carried on a British Railways London Midland Region tubular steel post is 6 signal (Down Goods Home) with Thorpes Bridge Junction signal box’s Down Goods fixed distant signal below it. And towards the end of the train is Miles Platting Station Junction signal box 89 signal (Down Oldham Starting) with Brewery Sidings signal box 2 signal (Down Main Inner Distant) below it
The signals remained in use until 4th August 1998 when Miles Platting Station Junction, Brewery Sidings and Thorpes Bridge Junction signal boxes were closed
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