Millbrook Railway platform and sheds
I spotted this building in Google Earth – just like another big goods shed just close by! It is part of the track run that delivered coal to the Hartshead power station up to the 1970.s before its’ closure. Since then the whole area has overgrown and been swallowed by the woods. It’s kind of eerie to be walking through them and suddenly find yourself on a section of cobbled road, pipeline bridges and buildings like these! It is an old small goods shed and a platform that served the many coal delivery trains.
Now they stand empty, run down and isolated.
Using a website I found called e-mapping Victorian Cheshire; it shows two maps beside each other. One can be maps from 1875, 1910, 1970’s aerial and modern day map! So the two maps can show the exact same place for historical comparisons!
Here is an example – showing a modern Google maps view by a 1970’s aerial!
The difference is striking! Left – modern day, right – 1970’s with all the tracks.
South side.
Internal 1.
Internal 2 – don’t move that last brick!
Sheds entrances.
A platform!
Taken from the platform!
Forgotten in the woods!
I spotted this building in Google Earth – just like another big goods shed just close by! It is part of the track run that delivered coal to the Hartshead power station up to the 1970.s before its’ closure. Since then the whole area has overgrown and been swallowed by the woods. It’s kind of eerie to be walking through them and suddenly find yourself on a section of cobbled road, pipeline bridges and buildings like these! It is an old small goods shed and a platform that served the many coal delivery trains.
Now they stand empty, run down and isolated.
Using a website I found called e-mapping Victorian Cheshire; it shows two maps beside each other. One can be maps from 1875, 1910, 1970’s aerial and modern day map! So the two maps can show the exact same place for historical comparisons!
Here is an example – showing a modern Google maps view by a 1970’s aerial!
The difference is striking! Left – modern day, right – 1970’s with all the tracks.
South side.
Internal 1.
Internal 2 – don’t move that last brick!
Sheds entrances.
A platform!
Taken from the platform!
Forgotten in the woods!
