A49 Link Road Wigan

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The Goose Green to Westwood Park Link Road, is due to start construction soon and I know that Tomplum is really looking forward to work on the new road starting and mac said in another topic that they have been pegging out for the road bridge over the stream, so this is a plan of the new road, which has been made by a company called Tekla

Sniffy Brook Bridge


Entire Road


https://www.tekla.com/uk/bim-awards/a49-link-road

The old A49 before dual carriageway.

The " BEN JONSON " RAILWAY BRIDGE ( you can just see the Original between the bridge and lamppost on the left hand side ) laden with empty coal wagons going to the pit to be filled .On the far side of the bridge on the right hand side is now the entrance to Total Fitness .

Is it not tuther way round Mac, entrance to Total Fitness is on this side of the bridge, to the left of the camera ?

Why do you think this?

I did notice someone had graffitied the bridge.

I have changed me mind, and you are right, the thing which confused me is the fact that the road is going uphill as it approaches the Ben Johnson, and looking on google earth, the old road, which is still there in parts, is set quite bit to the side of the existing dual carriageway, and as the road went past the entrance to Reeds, it did dip slightly, and then rises up as it goes past the Ben Johnson, before going dowhill towards the bottom junction, the dual carriageway was built without that dip.

As regards the graffiti on the bridge, it looks like it was an advert for a whiskey called Mac

the view today,
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5181208,-2.6526114,3a,53y,8.34h,83.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd4cYbb6wIdJqBC5Qt4q_2w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Aerial view

https://earth.google.com/web/search/Warrington+Rd,+Wigan/@53.51775344,-2.65148714,44.27073564a,298.07032478d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=CigiJgokCTVlQDCA3DRAETRlQDCA3DTAGRBMaV-aYjNAITGR31cf01TA

Map of railway lines in Goose Green around 1930,i glass House over the demolished bridge on Warrington Road.