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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I remember the steam trains and the old railway station which used to have buildings, waiting rooms and fireplaces with real fires. There was a railway line up to Manchester in those days too. I used to be scared of the steam trains. I thought they were dragons.
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I travelled on that Manchester line daily, from 1959 to 1963, as I worked in Bury.
I loved steam engines (still do) but perhaps it's "in the blood". My maternal grandfather was Station Master at Church and Oswaldtwistle from 1912 to 1928 (and before that, at Rochdale. My mum was born in the station house there in 1909) and, in his family, I had an uncle and a cousin who were railway engineers and another uncle who was a guard.
