St. Helens & South Lancashire Rail & Bus Site:

Huyton & Roby Area.

 Updated 3 November 2007.

HUYTON QUARRY:

47851 with a charter train on 10 June 2007.

With 45407 on the rear. This was the site of Huyton Quarry Station, closed in the 1950's.

HUYTON.

60094 with a Liverpool - Fiddlers Ferry MGR service on 31 October 2007.

 

156.425 on 10 June 2007.

45407 with the "Bowring Centenarian" charter on 10 June 2007.

 

With 47851 on the rear.

156.440 and 156.480 on 2 June 2007.

Huyton in 1970, before removal of the slow lines, with a Class 108 heading east towards Manchester.

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37419 on 4 July 1992 with a Liverpool - Preston service.

Huyton Signal Box.

 

185.126 /136 with a Liverpool - Scarborough service. 

7 October 2007.

 

57306 + 390.019 with a Liverpool - London service.

7 October 2007.

47414 near Roby with a Trans Pennine service on 10 August 1980.

(This & next photo.) (4)5690 near Roby on 10 August 1980.

The vegetation has since grown so high that this view is no longer possible.

The nearest equivalent view in 2005, with 57309 on a diverted Liverpool - London service.

ROBY STATION:

573   with a diverted London - Liverpool service.

 

Class 124 "Trans Pennine" dmu at Roby in 1975. 

 

40.xxx substituting for a dmu on a Wigan - Liverpool local service in 1975.

The slow lines (right) had been removed, but the platforms still existed behind the fence.

 

 

 

 

All photographs by Bevan Price