Now, here is a story yet to be explored.
Barbarella came across this impressive brick viaduct on her walk yesterday along the Mersey on the border between Didsbury and Cheshire.
It clearly has seen better days and despite my confidence earlier this morning I have not tracked down its history, despite staring at maps of the area dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
But someone will know, and offer up chapter and verse, from which I can go back and delve deeper.
To which John Anthony Hewitt has responded with "That would have been part of the Manchester Central to London St Pancras main line railway, closed in 1969. Apart from Central station, other stations closed had included CCH, Withington & WD, Didsbury, H. Mersey, Cheadle Heath and Hazel Grove"
And looking at the 1900-1910 OS map for Cheshire, a line does cross the Mersey at that point.
And I suspect this one will rumble on ..... well I hope so.
Leaning me just to wallow in that wonderfully sad lament for the passing of all things, .....The Slow Train, Flanders and Swann.*
Location; Didsbury, Cheshire border
Picture; that viaduct, 2020, from the collection of Barbarella Bonvento, and extract from the OS map of Cheshire, 1900-1910, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
It clearly has seen better days and despite my confidence earlier this morning I have not tracked down its history, despite staring at maps of the area dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
But someone will know, and offer up chapter and verse, from which I can go back and delve deeper.
To which John Anthony Hewitt has responded with "That would have been part of the Manchester Central to London St Pancras main line railway, closed in 1969. Apart from Central station, other stations closed had included CCH, Withington & WD, Didsbury, H. Mersey, Cheadle Heath and Hazel Grove"
And I suspect this one will rumble on ..... well I hope so.
Leaning me just to wallow in that wonderfully sad lament for the passing of all things, .....The Slow Train, Flanders and Swann.*
Location; Didsbury, Cheshire border
Picture; that viaduct, 2020, from the collection of Barbarella Bonvento, and extract from the OS map of Cheshire, 1900-1910, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
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