Walkden Yard: The Lancashire Central Coalfield Workshops

by Alan Davies

Located close to the Ellesmere Colliery, the Walkden Yard ultimately became the NCB Central Workshops for Lancashire. From here the workshops served the Bridgewater Trustees' collieries, providing engineering support as well as maintaining the numerous railway locomotives and the many hundreds of wagons that the company owned. Opened in 1878, Walkden Yard transferred to the National Coal Board upon nationalization after the Second World War and its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184868925X
• ISBN13: 9781848689251
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"