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    Jun 18, 2021 5 minutes

    REVIEW OF THE MONTH

    Liverpool & Manchester Railway Atlas

    Joe Brown

    Crecy Publishing, 1A Ringway Trading Estate, Shadowmoss Road, Manchester M22 5LH.

    Tel: 0161 499 0024. Website: www.crecy.co.uk. Email: enquiries@crecy.co.uk

    Description: Hardback, 305mm x 205mm, 186 maps plus index.

    ISBN: 9780860936879

    Price £30.00

    Newton Heath, Longsight, Patricroft, Lostock Hall, Rose Grove and Edge Hill were North Western steam sheds we all scrambled round in the 1950s and 1960s. Only the engine numbers mattered and there wasn’t the time to ponder why such vast complexes were even there, or when they had been built.

    Now, from an armchair, it is possible to understand all this in a comprehensive map book and gazetteer that covers much more than its title suggests because it also takes in the majority of Lancashire, and spreads out to Stockport, Buxton, the

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