A PROTOTYPE IN ‘THE PARK’
Industrial areas can offer various model railway possibilities and one of the most interesting was Trafford Park, the world’s first industrial estate, which was developed following the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894.
Over the ensuing decades, ‘the Park’ became an important centre for the food, engineering, and oil and chemical industries, and by the 1930s, was home to over 125 companies, many of whom had their own private sidings connected to the estate’s rail system. Worked by the Manchester Ship Canal Co., the Trafford Park estate railway was in turn
