Merry Christmas, Larry.
Ah, Parkbridge. Spent many happy hours there, watching the rolling od bars and sections in the Bottom Forge, playing on the old railway trackbed at Rocher Rock and up the the station goods yard. The old steam crane in the sidings near the tennis courts, etc. Towards the end of the line, I remember hearing a slipping loco from our garden in Bardsley and riding my bike to Alt Lane bridge at Fairbottom to find a WD hauled freight stalled and slipping continuously. Must have taken the best part of half an hour to get a grip and slowly head off past the signal box, heading towards Oldham. Sadly of course, the box was later burned down by vandals.
Dave.