Walkden Yard. Lancashire Central Coalfield Workshops
Details:
- Author(s) Davies, Alan
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 159pp; illus
- Publisher Amberley
- Place Published Stroud
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- Name National Library of Scotland
- City Edinburgh
- County Lothian
- Country Scotland
- Postcode EH1 1EW
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Walkden Yard opened in 1878 to serve the Bridgewater family's collieries in Lancashire. Nationalised 1947 and thereafter serviced National Coal Board's collieries in Lancashire. Closed 1986. Serviced locomotives and rolling stock of colliery railways