Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

Wrexham. The signalling and the locomotive are both clearly of Great Western origin and so the title might happily read 'Approaches to Wrexham General'. Wrexham Central provided a service to Bidston on the Wirral, run by the Great Central prior to 1923, and also to Ellesmere to the south east, originally a Cambrian branch, but this line closed early in British Railways days.

The locomotive is one of Churchward's very useful mixed traffic 2-6-0s; a design first introduced in 1911. They were rated 4MT by British Railways and were used equally on freight and passenger trains

This is Croes Newydd south of the General station on the Great Western main line between Chester and Shrewsbury.
The building on the left with the sawtooth roof is the ex-Great Western Croes Newydd loco shed.
Croes Newydd formed a triangular junction surrounding the shed and branching off westward towards Brymbo and its famous steelworks.

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