tarboat's photos with the keyword: hazel grove

Corrugated iron blister hangars at the Marcliff Industrial Estate in Hazel Grove. These were probably erected here for wartime manufacturing purposes.

The light is fading as 150 137 heads a Buxton train into Hazel Grove station. Since the Blackpool trains were diverted to Manchester Airport there are only a few rush hour electric services using the line from Edgeley Junction to Hazel Grove which is a great waste of the investment that went into installing the catenary and associated infrastructure. This must be something to do with the very wonderful Northern Powerhouse that our esteemed government keeps banging on about. This is the same government that funded the Ordsall curve in Manchester to allow services between Manchester Victoria and Piccadilly stations. They also removed the funds to increase capacity between Deansgate and Piccadilly with the result that the expensive track has exactly no passenger services using it at all. Joined up thinking at its best.

An East Midlands service comprising 158 889 and 156 408 leaving Disley Tunnel towards Hazel Grove.

An East Midlands service comprising 156 408 headed by 158 889 is approaching the site of Hazel Grove MR Station and will soon take the Hazel Grove chord onto the LNWR Buxton branch towards Stockport. This section of line opened as the Midland Railway's Disley Cutoff in 1902. The chord line at Hazel Grove was completed in 1986 and allows services from Sheffield to access Stockport on the way to Manchester Piccadilly.

A Barton & Sons Ltd manufactured cotton wadding at their Albion Mill in Hazel Grove, Stockport. Their trade name was Lion Fleece Wadding. The mill closed by the 1970s and in 1984 was demolished for a supermarket development. Just before demolition I was able to visit the site and took a very few photographs. This is one of a long row of carding machines awaiting the scrap man.

Another photo of the Foden 4 ton capacity wagon on demonstration during 1918 and seen in the yard of George Fryer's joinery works in Hazel Grove. It appears that Fryer did not purchase the wagon and it was sold to a business in Barmouth at the beginning of 1919. George Fryer never had a brickworks in Hazel Grove although he did operate brickworks at Tenement Lane, Bramhall and also in adjacent Adswood. They say the camera cannot lie, but this image could certainly be misleading.

Former Govia Thameslink emu 319424 cascaded to Northern is seen on the first day of operations onto the Buxton Branch at Hazel Grove where the wires finish. It was nice to ride in the erstwhile first class area which will no doubt soon be rearranged with 3 + 2 seating.

The Buxton branch had been blocked for two days after the recent snowfall and Network Rail finally got around to sending out the ploughs from Crewe with 56105 & 56087. The worked from Stockport to Buxton via Chinley and then came down the branch to Hazel Grove before returning to Buxton and ploughing the Hindlow line. I assume that they then returned via Chinley. I caught them at Norbury Crossing on the way down to Hazel Grove as the light was fading. In years gone by there were two large ploughs at Buxton and the branch was kept open by running them all night if necessary. These days there seems to be no appetite for keeping the line open when it snows. This is probably due to the beancounters telling them it is not cost effective. That's not much of a consolation to those trapped and unable to get to or from home/work. Whatever happened to the concept of public service?

They are building a new road near where I live and tonight I went for a mooch to see how they were getting on. The new footbridge over the brook has become one that can accommodate vehicles. At least it had a rainbow watching over it.

Jubilee 45690, 'Leander', headed by Standard 4 76084 on its main line debut on the approach to Disley Tunnel with this morning's Buxton Spa Express. Pity it was almost dark and also pouring with rain.

The construction of the Manchester Airport relief road between the A6 at Hazel Grove and the M56 near the airport requires a large bridge for the Stockport to Buxton railway to cross the new road. The bridge and its abutments had been erected in an adjacent field over the past few months and at Easter 2016 a four day possession was granted to get it all in. Good Friday saw the embankment removed entirely and around lunchtime on Saturday the big move commenced with the bridge and attached abutments jacked onto massive multi-axle self-propelled platforms running on steel plates. Within three hours it was in position for lowering onto prepared concrete pads outside the width of the original embankment, which is where it is seen here. The bridge was already filled with ballast ready for the tracks to be laid. The new embankment ends were to be laid in stone in 150mm layers, each rolled just once before the next layer is added. Trains were running again at 6.00am on Tuesday.

Whilst out walking this morning I found a brick on the spoil tip of Middlecale Colliery bearing the letters "N C" which stands for "NORBURY COLLIERY". The works was behind the Robin Hood pub on the A6 heading up towards High Lane. This brick must date from no later than 1878 when the Middlecale Pit closed.

The construction of the Manchester Airport relief road between the A6 at Hazel Grove and the M56 near the airport requires a large bridge for the Stockport to Buxton railway to cross the new road. The bridge and its abutments had been erected in an adjacent field over the past few months and at Easter a four day possession was granted to get it all in. Good Friday saw the embankment removed entirely and around lunchtime on Saturday the big move commenced with the bridge and attached abutments jacked onto massive multi-axle self propelled platforms running on steel plates. Within three hours it was in position for lowering onto prepared concrete pads outside the width of the original embankment, which is where it is seen here. The bridge was already filled with ballast ready for the tracks to be laid. The new embankment ends were to be laid in stone in 150mm layers, each rolled just once before the next layer is added. Trains were running again at 6.00am on Tuesday.

Seen from a passing train, this corrugated iron Hangar is one of two erected here probably for wartime manufacturing purposes.

A single frog brick made at the Norbury Colliery brickworks operated by Messrs Clayton & Brooke in the nineteenth century. The works was located behind the Robin Hood pub on the north side of the main road from the colliery which was situated between Hazel Grove and High Lane on what is now the A6. It appears that brickmaking ended with the closure of the colliery in 1892.

Another product of Messrs Clayton & Brooke, Norbury Colliery. The brickworks, on the opposite side of the current A6 from the colliery, closed in 1892 along with the colliery. These square bricks were used as pavers at various properties around the district.

The Norbury Moor brickyard was situated on Jackson's Lane in Hazel Grove and appears to have started production c1890. It still appears on the 1907 surveyed 25" OS map, but probably didn't survive the First World War. The map shows a large preparation building and four round kilns.

This one is a bit of a puzzle as I cannot definitely locate the brickworks of George Fryer in Hazel Grove. The only candidate is that at Norbury Moor so I can only surmise that this was his at the time. The Foden steam lorry was first registered in 1918 so the photo is post WW1. Fryer was operating from Tenement Lane brickworks in Cheadle Hulme in the late 1920s and this was absorbed into the J & A Jackson group c1929.