As well as steam trains taking on water before heading off for the last time, they include the long-vanished custom of Wakes Week – where the town’s workers would descend en masse to the station for two weeks by the seaside – along with excited schoolchildren departing for a school trip abroad.
13. Wigan's workforce gather to board their trains to holiday at the seaside during Wakes Week, July 1969
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14. Off to Switzerland...pupils at Up Holland Grammar School pictured arriving at Wallgate Station Wigan in 1971
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15. The train to Southport leaves Wallgate station Wigan in 1999
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16. An InterCity train pictured from Wallgate station Wigan in 1999.
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