The 'Corrie' Connection

giner · Post by **giner** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:15 am

If you've ever watched Coronation Street, and really, who hasn't? (Well, you're not under any obligation to admit anything on here, are you?)

Any road, in Roy and Hayley Cropper's cordon bleu establishment you will not have failed to notice (you wouldn't have, would you?) all the railwayana artifacts around the place.

Okay, here's what I'm just curious about. On one wall in t'cafe there's an LNER bridge plate, numbered 22. At a wild guess I'd reckon it was around Hornsey or Wood Green. Anyone know? Maybe you were a spotter at the very spot.

R. pike · Post by **R. pike** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:24 am

I'd rather gnaw my own arm off that watch corrie though my girlfriend is always goin on about it. All i can suggest as a pointer is for a structure to have an LNER plate it must have been built or rebuilt in the LNER period. Everything else round here has or had GN plates.. Br99 is just South of Hitchin Station..

52A · Post by **52A** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:03 pm

There would be a number of bridge 22s, each route numbered bridges from the origin. There would be 4 on the ECML, between KX and York, York and Newcastle, Newcastle and Berwick and Edinburgh and Berwick.

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:43 pm

The 99 arches into Wakefield Westgate from the river Calder to almost the station itself were all renumbered in the early 1960s.

All the numbers were gone [stolen I suppose] withing a few weeks.

I didn't get mine though

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:38 pm

In the days of Ena Sharples the railway viaduct at the end of the street was operational. And featured a crash.
Was this line part of the LNER? Maybe CLC? GC?
If so could this have been the source of the plate?

52A · Post by **52A** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:56 pm

Is this viaduct in the vicinity of Deansgate?

giner · Post by **giner** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:20 pm

Hmmmm . . . all sorts of possibiities. I guess the only certainty is that we'll never know quite where the Croppers' plate originated. Sweet mysteries of life and all that.

60041 · Post by **60041** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:47 pm

I once read that all the railwayana displayed in the program is genuine, and was bought as a job lot from a collector in or around London by one of the programme's researchers. I suppose it could have come from anywhere but the south seems likely.
The article did not say what the collection cost, but I'll bet that it's worth quite a lot more now.

silver fox · Post by **silver fox** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:09 am

Does anyone know where the first 'street' was? as the present one is in Ganada studios and contains the interior studios, I know, I've been there...no t-shirt!

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hq1hitchin · Post by **hq1hitchin** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:03 pm

Spot on Giner - Bridge 30 is the big long o/bridge that straddles all lines at the north end of Wood Green station so if we work back towards The Cross that brings us somewhere near Hornsey Station.

Don't see Corrie much, I'm afraid so can't comment on the plate.

Incidentally, the late, great, Eric Steward (one time signalman New Southgate) moved from the post of Asst. Station Manager, KX to the equivalent post at Liverpool Lime St. in the early 1970s. Hadn't been there for long before the Scousers started calling him 'Jesus Christ'. Eric was a bit baffled at first until it was explained to him that it was because of his habit of prefacing his stories with 'When I was up The Cross.....'

giner · Post by **giner** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:39 am

That's a good story, hq1. LOL!

By your moniker, you must be from the same neck of the woods as me. My spotting heyday was from 1952-60 around Stevenage/Hitchin, mainly Langley troughs, up until I discovered girls, in fact. Ruin everything, don't they?:D (Just kidding, ladies). I hope the wife's not reading this.