Wigan.....without pier

Photo courtesy of Ben Brookbank

Certainly without peer, 64242 City of Glasgow speeds through Wigan North Western in charge of the southbound Caledonian during the summer of 1957, the year this titled express service was inaugurated.
I must move on from this Wigan theme but I just couldn't resist this scene which we will replicate, albeit further south, on New Mills at the Wigan Show in December http://www.wiganfrm.org.uk/