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Originally Posted by hairyhandedfool
Don't think they use the facilities anymore, it is very overgrown, although there is an 07 on site which seems to shift about.
I think there is a Hope (?)-Weaste cement train during the week, usually turns at Eccles around 4pm.
And today and any day where the WCML is shut between Crewe/Wigan/Preston there are the diverted freights, including the LessCo train.
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I might be wrong, but I'm not sure if freight is now banned from the Bolton line because of the sheer volume of passenger movements (specially in the area of Salford Crescent). A far cry from the days when the succession of parcel vans for Red Bank Carriage Sidings used to ply the route to places like Bolton, Preston, Barrow & Glasgow.