Dinner-time goods"

Church Road, Buckley

1970

see 1.334 for a photo of the gates

There used to be two bars across the base of the gates. Once, a young child caught his head in between the spacing of the bars. He couldn't remove his head in time for the train and he was killed. The bars were then removed.

This branch line finished on the edge of the common. The line carried freight for the mines and brickworks.

DINNER-TIME GOODS

CAPTION ONE

The Buckley Railway line crossed Church Road near the Horse and Jockey public house. Large white crossing gates guarded the road. These were often thronged by excited school boys on their way to school, as the dinner-time goods train took its load of waggons from the Mountain Colliery. To the chagrin of one small boy, his bossy sister won't let him stay!

CAPTION TWO

Mountain Colliery was served by a railway branch line which crossed Church Road. The gate was removed relatively recently. About noon each day, a coal train proceeded down to connah's Quay docks and en route crossed the level crossing. Children, proceeding to dinner from Saint Matthew's School, often gathered at the crossing gates in order to wave to the driver. Often an irate mother would drag her son away from the scene before his dinner grew cold.

OLD BUCKLEY DAYS AND WAYS

PICTURE NUMBER 37

see entry number 1.51

Author: Bentley, James

Dinner-time goods"

Church Road, Buckley

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