Liverpool to Ashton in Makerfield - Rail Journey

This video showed up on my YooTube homepage today, and what a treat for me as it was a rail freight journey from Liverpool to the stone terminal at the old Hanson Cement factory at Edge Green in Ashton in Makerfield.

I don't know if there are any other such video's on YouTube, but I have never come across any before, but what I found very interesting is the journey through Ince Moss Junction, Ince Moss Chord and on to the WCML with a reference to the Wigan Flash Wetlands and that the Chord is actually a causeway between two large bodies of water, and from the WCML through Haydock Branch Junction and on to the Haydock Branch line, and at the stone terminal the wagons are unloaded, the loco is refueled from a road tanker, and the loco 'runs around' to hook up with the wagons at the other end of the train, and then it is back to Liverpool, with another brilliant journey along the Ince Moss Chord, and on the outward journey the driver says that the abandoned rail ballast wagon, which is in between Bryn and the WCML was abandoned some 40yrs ago, apologies if you don't like train stuff

Coffin Lane sounds creepy, but I suppose we are still thinking Halloween. I must have blinked and missed the flashes.

Coffin Wood

“As for Coffin Wood and Coffin Lane you need to go back to a time before the mines came along when the residents of Bamfurlong and Stubshaw areas had to travel to the then Parish Church, Holy Trinity in what is now North Ashton to bury their dead. They carried the coffins along a lane which went over the fields from Bolton Road near to Baldwin’s Farm to Four Footed Cross (now called Bryn Cross) and then onto the Church in Ashton (now Downall Green). The lane from Bolton Road to Four Footed Cross passed through a wood where the mourners would rest and pray before continuing to the church, hence the name; Coffin Lane and Coffin Wood. Unfortunately, Coffin Wood was buried under the slag heaps that became the Three Sisters and the lane although no longer there, followed a route similar to the diagonal footpath across Viridor Wood from a point near to Baldwin’s Farm.”

https://www.moochandpotter.co.uk/viridor-walking-woods-central-section/