We start at Crumpsall, where this ex L&YR signal box controlled the DC electrified Bury line, before being replaced by the Metrolink trams.
To see where we're going next, I advise you to see the map here, So, Blackley is our next stop, for the Pleasant Inn, only to find out that it closed in 2017.
Never mind, the Blue Bell at Moston is still seeing pints being pulled.
Newton Heath was one of the main locomotive sheds serving the L&YR in Manchester. 0-6-0 no. 85 is seen here with an "earth fault".
One of the famous L&YR Pugs photographed at Newton Heath shed.
Now, it's 1931 and LMS (ex L&YR) 12459 is in the shed yard.
Newton Heath was one of the last bastions of steam. Here are a few shots taken around 1967.
Around the same time, D2858, a Yorkshire Engine Company shunter was found on Newton Heath shed.
Newton Heath survived into diesel days.
Some housing built for railway employees in Graver Lane, Newton Heath (Mikey - Creative Commons License).
A lovely Holt's pub serves the residents of Newton Heath, the Railway Hotel.
Sadly the Grosvenor Arms and the Robin Hood Inn are now closed.
L&YR no 18 leaving Dean Lane station, Newton Heath, with a transfer to Oldham circa 1920.
To the west is the former Manchester Corporation bus depot on Boyle Street, now the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester. Here are a few buses within its walls.
There's a few other exhibits too.
Not far away is was Queens Road signal box, where two EMUs pass on the Bury line.
Nearby, at Cheetham, the Metrolink depot in 1991.
On our way into Manchester city centre we pass Holt's Brewery.
We would have our last pint of this post in the Queens Arms, but it is no longer open.
So we catch a bus down Cheetham Hill into the city, but you'll have to wait until the next post for that (Richard Huggins).
See you soon.
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