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You asked about pictures of Deltic on the Cheshire Lines, this photo is from the Napier Chronicles:-
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Well, nearly 60 years later, the Cheshire Lines have gone, the embankment has gone...but the power lines are still there:-
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I really need to be about 25-30 feet more elevated, and with a wider angle lens, but it's not far off where the picture was taken imho (60 years ago this was the Cheshire Lines embankment after passing Old Roan station).
There's also a picture in the Napier Power Heritage Trust webpages here showing the loco at Netherton works :-
East Lancashire Road, Liverpool With the outbreak of WWII Napier needed to expand its engine production facilities as part of the war effort. Acton Vale to the west of London was considered to be a vulnerable site so, by the end of October 1939, the decision was made to build a shadow factory on
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I've stood fairly close to where Deltic is stood...about 30 years ago. The Napier Trust mentions that EE at Netherton were subcontracted to make Rolls-Royce Avon engines, well when I visited it was called Coopers-Bessemer ( a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce) and was testing RR RB211 engines to destruction...by running them flat out for months at a time!