Ramsbottom Train Station – Heritage Railway & A Lost Train Station
Now the midpoint of the East Lancashire Railway (ELR), Ramsbottom Train Station is situated in…
Category: Transport History
Discover the history of the transport that changed how we move around the world, the nostalgia behind the transport hubs we use every day and the modes of transport we enjoy.
The Liverpool Overhead Railway – The Dockers’ Umbrella
Closed on 30 December 1965 after more than 60 years of passenger service, the ovee’…
Dartmouth Train Station – The Station with No Trains
Dartmouth Station has never been served by trains, and despite multiple plans during the 1850s…
St Annes on Sea, a Lost Train Station?
Serving St-Annes-on-Sea, part of the Lytham St Annes area, the St Annes on Sea Railway…
Manchester Liverpool Road Station – Lost Stations
An anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage, the Science and Industry Museum,…
How Lord Beaverbrook gave aircraft production wings!
On 14 May 1940, Winston Churchill appointed the Canadian-British Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, as…
The Trams of Manchester’s Oxford Street
Trams often queued in Manchester’s Oxford Street in the early 1900s – and for good…
Manchester’s Golden Gate for more than 100 years
It may be a long way from San Francisco, but Trafford’s swing bridge has been…
The Trams of Stockport Road, 1924
Stockport Road in Longsight now sees some of the busiest traffic in Manchester. But it…
The Ford Halewood Car Plant Strike – 1968
195 women at Ford’s Halewood car plant on Merseyside went on strike, helping to make…
The Home to the First-Ever Passenger Hovercraft Service – the Wirral
For a few brief months in 1962, the Wirral made history as the location of…
Track-laying an Engineering Marvel to Draw the Crowds
The laying of tram tracks proved a real show-stopper back at the start of the…