Iconic High Speed Train visited Castleton Station
Date published: 12 October 2013
Photo: Mo Nkey
Inter City 125 High Speed Train at Castleton Station
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An iconic Inter City 125 High Speed Train visited Castleton today (Saturday 12 October), stopping at the platform and reversing into the Bags Yard. The train is of the type used in 'This is the Age of the Train' adverts for British Rail in the 1980s.
The special was on route from London St Pancras to Rawtenstall on the heritage East Lancashire Railway (ELR)and will also pass through Heywood.
Frank Salt, of The Friends of Castleton Station, comments: "Once again the importance of the East Junction at Castleton to link the main line with the ELR is shown, and the potential for hundreds of visitors to a new station of the heritage railway at Castleton would invigorate the village, as it has at Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall."
Plans to build a new station are advancing with local councillor Billy Sheerin representing Rochdale on the board of the East Lancs.
Inter City 125 High Speed Train at Castleton Station
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