Godley Turntable Revisited

Just like the trains now.. we wait ages for a picture of the turn table and then two turned up.

We recently showed another picture from around here and now we have Eric to thank for sending this one in... It shows how busy this junction must have once been.   "Enjoy"

Godley Station

Here are two more great photos from Joe Lloyd via David Stafford.

 

The Cheshire Lines side of Godley Junction Station with the island platform in the foreground and the assembled staff on the CLC side if the V-shaped station buildings. On the extreme right are vans in the sidings on the up-side of the main line, behind which is the tall Signal Shop building completed in 1875.

The station name board reads – ‘’GODLEY – JUNCTION FOR GREAT CENTRAL & GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAYS AND OTHER LINES BEYOND’’

CLC Sidings at Godley  

GCR Loco No. 161 – one of 12 Class 12A engines built by the MSLR in 8/1885 – this one was originally No.541 and was renumbered 161 in October 1893, being scrapped in May 1915.

 Many Thanks to Joe and David. 
Much appreciated .

Godley train turntable.

 This fabulous photo was lent to us by Joe Lloyd and comes via David Stafford.

What a quality photo. I hadn't ever seen a train on the turntable before !
Am I right in thinking that men used to push the turntable by hand, as shown on the photo?



The CLC turntable in use at Godley Junction with much other activity. In one of the early air raids on the Manchester area, a bomb exploded some 25 yards to the right of the turntable, just in the field beyond the railway boundary fence. Extreme left behind the main line up-side sidings, stand the Signal Shop the building of which was authorized by the MS&LR Board in 1873 and completed in 1875. The newer brick building was Walls Meat Products Factory, now Kerry Foods and the extensive housing development on the skyline is the Hattersley Housing Estate built post-war by Manchester City Council.