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Looking for The Delph Donkey ? Forgotten Branch Lines

In this video we are looking at a disused railway line and a disused railway tunnel. The now abandoned railway branch line was called the Delph Donkey. Situated just outside the town of Oldham in Lancashire. It ran from Oldham through the village of Lees and on into Saddleworth terminating at the village of Delph. A myth about the service was that at some point the train was pulled by a Donkey. However its was a single steam locomotive that did a push pull service. The Steam locomotive pulled the train from Oldham then pushed it back from Delph. We look at old heritage railway photographs of the now closed line. The line was populated mainly by Cotton mill workers that commuted from Oldham into Saddleworth. The line served the villages of Greenfield, Grasscroft, Dob Cross, Grotton, Lees and finally Delph. The branch line closed to passengers in 1955 and finally to freight trains in 1963. The railway lines were removed in 1964. The trackbed is now a walk and cycleway on the outskirts of Oldham.