[Source:
Paul Wright & Alan Young]
The site of Bacup engine shed and sidings and the adjacent Facit Branch railway towards Britannia have all been redeveloped as New Line Industrial Estate. The name is taken from the nearby road, which in turn took its name from the new railway opened from Fcit to Bacup in 1881. The road through the industrial estate is known as ‘The Sidings’. The photo was taken in May 2016.
Photo by Alan Young 
‘The Sidings’ is the road serving New Line Industrial Estate. The estate has been developed on the site of Bacup engine shed and sidings and the adjacent Facit Branch railway. The photo was
taken in May 2016. Photo by Alan Young  Looking north-west in New Line Industrial Estate, Bacup, in May 2016. The road approximately follows the course of the old Rochdale – Bacup railway, and the engine shed was ahead and to the right. The Bacup (or Newline) Tunnel is behind the photographer.
Photo by Alan Young 
Looking north-east in May 2016 down the short lane from New Line that used to give access to Bacup engine shed. It is not known if the building on the left was a railway property. The original Britannia / Bacup Engine Shed signal box stood just beyond it. Height Barn Mill used to occupy the grassed area in the right foreground. The site of the old engine shed is some distance off the picture, to the left.
Photo by Alan Young 
In May 2016 this is the north-west portal of Britannia, or New Line, Tunnel, now within an industrial site. In recent years the tunnel was offered for sale by a local estate agent.
Photo by Alan Young 
The south-east portal of Britannia, or New Line, Tunnel is seen here in May 2016 from a point close to the nearby road, known as New Line.
Photo by Alan Young  Looking north-west in May 2016 from the road known as New Line, between Bacup and Britannia. The parapet of the bridge over the Rochdale – Bacup railway is in the foreground. A short, heavily vegetated cutting separates the bridge on which the photographer is standing from the south-east portal of the Britannia, or New Line, Tunnel.
Photo by Alan Young 
The route of the former Rochdale – Bacup railway (the Facit Branch) can be walked from Shawforth and Britannia as far as the point seen on this photograph, where the earth has been built up as high as the stone parapet, burying the bridge where New Line crosses the railway trackbed. This photo was taken in May 2016.
Photo
by Alan Young
Looking north-west across New Line, a road between Britannia and Bacup, where it crosses the route of the former Rochdale – Bacup railway. Although the bridge on which the photographer is standing in May 2016 has been filled in, the parapets have been left in place. Beyond the parapet on the opposite side of the road is the short, overgrown cutting that separates this bridge from the Bacup (or Newline) Tunnel.
Photo by Alan Young 
Looking east in May 2016 across the road between Britannia and Bacup known as New Line. This old turnpike road was given the name ‘New Line’ after the railway from Facit to Bacup opened in 1881; the ‘old line’ was the Irwell Valley route between Bury, Rawtenstall and Bacup. Immediately ahead is the infilled bridge where New Line crossed the Rochdale – Facit – Bacup railway; the railway through this point had closed to passengers in 1947 and to all traffic in 1952, although it was available for wagon storage until 1963. The rails were removed in 1964. It is not known when this bridge was infilled. Beyond this bridge the old railway route is used as a footpath to Britannia and Shawforth.
Photo by Alan Young
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