Famous for being a cotton-spinning capital benefiting from its close proximity to industrial Manchester, the town of Oldham was once a landscape of chimneys and red-brick mills. But it was also railway mad, full of goods depots, engine sheds, grand old stations and crisscrossed by a complicated set of lines.

Today its one of the largest towns in Britain with no mainline connection to its town centre. So what happened to Oldham's railways?

In this video I follow the recently abandoned line through the town centre, which closed only in 2009. Here the infrastructure is still largely in place, including good track bed, bridges and two short tunnels with some epic portal mouths. We'll look at the former stations of Mumps, Oldham Central, Oldham Clegg Street and Oldham Werneth, and the famous Werneth incline, the steepest railway incline in the country.

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