NEWS & UPDATES - 14/08/2021 Photos added to the BR Full & Empty Wagon Working section. 06/01/2021 A Link to Alan Roach's Youtube video of Middleton Junction Signal Box added. This is in the Middleton Junction & Vitriol section. 30/12/2020 - Loco working details updated. 22/12/2020 - No updates for a while but hopefully more to come in 2021. In the photo section for the Industrial Shunter there is a YouTube link. I you look at 2:58 in the video you will see a familar sight.
Derker
Birthplace of Bernard Cribbins a Goods Yard and the newest Railway Station on the Loop opened in 1985.
Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Shaw 7 Rochdale bound entrance to Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Somewhere down there is Derker Station. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
I told you it was here. The Shaw & Rochdale station "facilities",Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Signs of the sidings at Derker / Higginshaw. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Into the former yard at Higginshaw. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Derker Station from Yate Street Bridge. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
The Oldham & Manchester bound entrance. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
THe footpath to the Oldham & Manchester platform. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Station information & timetable. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Looking back up the footpath to Yate Street. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
The view along the Oldham & Manchester platform from the entrance gate. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Trains heading for Shaw got their flanges lubricated. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
The Shaw & Rochdale platform viewed from the opposite entrance. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Looking bacl towards the entrance from the end of the Oldham & Manchester platform. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
Yate Street bridge seen from the Oldham & Manchester platform. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
The line towards Royton Junction. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
What was once the railway yard at Higginshaw is now a steel stockholders. Derker. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
150207 approaching Derker from Royton junction. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
142028 head to Shaw & Crompton on a "turn back". Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
142028 heads for Oldham and Manchester Victoria. Copyright Chris Bruce 2017
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