Stop five · On your right as you come in

Town & Industry

Step through the fold-up section and the bus depot is just to your right, a double-decker for Northwich in its doorway.

Beyond it, along the main line, is the working side of town: a British Road Services dock, a scrap yard, a gang with the road up, the brewery with its lorries of barrels, and a goods depot.

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A red-brick model bus depot signed “BUS DEPOT”, its blue doors open on two red double-deckers, with uniformed busmen outside and terraced houses behind. — A red-and-cream double-decker showing Northwich noses out of the brick bus depot. Uniformed staff stand by the doors, and an Esso pump and REDEX sign mark the office.17:26

A long view beside a railway line: a stone wall hung with enamel signs, a scrap yard, roadworks with cones, parked lorries and a bus depot in the distance. — By the railway, a skip heaped with scrap stands outside a shed signed STEPTOE, while workmen busy themselves among cones and pipe sections and a policeman raises a gloved hand. Across the tracks stands the Bus Depot.17:24

Road up

Beside the railway, a gang has the road up among concrete pipes and cones, while a policeman in white gloves keeps the traffic moving.

Look closer

On point duty by the roadworks, a policeman in white gloves holds up the traffic so the gang can get on with the digging.

Two lorries parked beside a railway line, a brown Whitbread one with a black sheet and a lime-green one piled with green barrels, in front of a red-brick brewery. — A brown Whitbread lorry and a lime-green lorry laden with L. Rose & Co barrels stand outside the brick brewery, beside the railway.17:27

Model workmen with pickaxes, drills and shovels digging beside a stone railway wall, among concrete pipes, a sand heap, a wheelbarrow and traffic cones. — Workmen with a shovel, pickaxes and pneumatic drills work among concrete pipe sections and traffic cones, while one man in a yellow hard hat stands with his hands on his hips.17:26

A red British Road Services lorry beside a goods platform stacked with wooden crates, a man in uniform among them, with more lorries parked beyond a stone wall. — A British Road Services lorry stands beside a loading dock stacked with crates, where a man in a dark uniform rests a hand on a small box. Beyond the wall are parked lorries and a Halls Distemper sign.17:23

A brown lorry with a black “WHITBREAD” sheet and a lime-green lorry loaded with green barrels, parked by a picket fence beside a railway line, a brewery behind. — A brown Whitbread lorry and a lime-green lorry loaded with barrels stand outside the brewery, while two sailors cross the zebra outside Joshville station.17:26

A red-brick model bus depot with red double-deckers, seen across two tracks from a station platform, with red lorries beside it and a diesel’s yellow nose at right. — Across the tracks, a red and cream double-decker for Northwich stands in the bus depot doorway, beside an Esso pump and a British Road Services lorry.19:24

A yellow-brick goods shed with a paved ramp, a porter holding a crate at its door and a man carrying a sack below, a red and cream lorry beside it, and lorries, the bus depot and a green diesel beyond the tracks. — At the goods depot a porter holds a wooden crate by the door while a man shoulders a sack at the foot of the ramp. Beyond the tracks are the bus depot, a Royal Mail lorry and a Hymek diesel.19:31

A green diesel locomotive with a yellow front, numbered D7046, stands on the far track beside a red-brick bus depot where a red and cream double-decker waits in the open doors, with passengers on a platform in the foreground. — Hymek diesel D7046, in two-tone green, stands beside the bus depot, where a cream-and-red double-decker waits in the doorway. In the foreground, passengers wait on the platform by a lamp post.19:31

A yellow-brick model station with a slate roof and a clock on its gable, with a black taxi, a yellow Mini and figures in the car park, and a yellow three-wheeled lorry loaded with sacks and barrels in front. — A couple embrace in the car park of the station by the bus depot, while passengers with suitcases gather at the taxi rank. A yellow Scarab waits out front, loaded with sacks, crates and barrels.19:30

A yellow-brick two-storey house with a green door stands beside a railway platform with luggage barrows, as curving tracks lead past a timber yard and cottages in the distance. — Two decorators in hard hats work on a brick house beside the platform, where maroon trolleys stand loaded with crates and trunks. Beyond, the tracks curve away towards cottages and a lorry loaded with logs.19:32