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Looking westward along the A556 from Hartford Picnic Area.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>Trees at the western boundary of Hartford Picnic Area.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>The south western boundary of the picnic site.
©David Dixon
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©David Dixon
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©David Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking eastwards along the A556 from the exit of Hartford Picnic site.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>Great Food in a nice location
©Iain Lees
Dist:0.4km<br/>View SE, towards Crewe; ex-London & North Western West Coast Main Line, Crewe - Carlisle. A Down local train is calling, hauled by a 'Patriot' Class 5XP 4-6-0. The station is being rebuilt and masts and wires for the Electrification between Crewe and Liverpool are being erected, but electric trains would not however, appear for another seven months.
©Ben Brooksbank
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©Dr Duncan Pepper
Dist:0.4km<br/>View NW, towards Weaver Junction (for Liverpool), Warrington, Preston etc., West Coast Main Line. The station had been recently rebuilt, for the electrification between Crewe and Liverpool that was about to commence on 1/1/62. The Up Class F empties is rushing through with Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 48490, as I and others wait shivering on the Down platform.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.4km<br/>View northward towards Warrington and the North; London & North Western West Coast Main Line, Crewe - Carlisle. The 06.15 Carlisle - Crewe semi-fast is stopping to pick up me (and my wife, and others) on a bitterly cold day in December 1962. The wires are for the electric trains that started to run between Liverpool and Crewe on 1/1/62.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>View SE, towards Crewe and the South: WCML. Electrification is now complete between Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street and electric services are about to start in a few days, on 1 January 1962, but not for another 14 years on the WCML (Weaver Junction to Glasgow). The Down express is headed by Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 45493 (built 1944, withdrawn 1/68).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>Viewed from Hartford Station car park, across the A559, Chester Road.
©Jo Lxix
Dist:0.6km<br/>View SE to Hartford Station and towards Crewe, West Coast Main Line (Crewe - Carlisle section); this was one of two fairly short two-track stretches on the route which between Crewe and Weaver Junction (where the line to Liverpool left the WCML) were bottle-ncks on a very busy route. The Down Class D semi-fitted freight is headed by LMS 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45613 'Kenya'. The bridge is on the main A559.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.6km<br/>Miraculously this area has two functioning railway stations with lines running N-S and E-W.
©Dr Duncan Pepper

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