The hand coaling platform and single-road shed at Dinting on 16th March 2017.
Dinting engine shed (a sub-shed of Gorton – 39A) was built between 1888 and 1898 for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. The coal stage and water tank were on the north-east side of the line at the southern entrance. It first closed in 1935 but was then reopened in 1942. It closed again to operational steam in 1954 but got a second lease of life via by the railway preservation group ‘The Dinting Railway Centre’ in 1968. This closed around 1990 and the shed was again left disused and fell into disrepair. The whole nine-acre site went up for sale in 2010 and was allegedly sold for circa £150,000 to a group of Manchester solicitors. However they failed to get planning permission to build houses so the site has just continued to remain as a ‘nature reserve’.
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