Guide Bridge Sidings is a Train Sim World featured stabling point (Depot) located to the east of Glossop Line Guide Bridge railway station in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, used for stabling and maintaining railway equipment like tampers and track finishing machines.
Guide Bridge Sidings Location
- Location: The depot is situated east of Guide Bridge station, on the line to Stalybridge in Europe.
- Route Function: It serves as a stabling point for railway equipment, currently occupied by Swietelsky and Babcock rail.
- Equipment Stabled: The depot is used for stabling and maintaining their fleet of tampers, ballast regulators, and track finishing machines.
- Historical Context: Guide Bridge was also a location where local coal merchants transferred coal from British Rail coal wagons.
- Woodhead Line: The Woodhead Line, which ran through Guide Bridge, saw the closure of express passenger trains on January 5, 1970, and the final closure of the line east of Hadfield on July 20, 1981.
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