Newton Heath Works
1877 Works opened for the manufacture of carriages and wagons for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company
1896 Additions made to the original building with addition of a paint shop and mess-rooms
1914 The carriage repair shop was opened as a wagon repairing shop.
1923 Incorporated into the LMSR
Grew to become a major local employer which, by the 1960s, as the Newton Heath Traction Maintenance Depot, had been expanded to a 40 acre site with over 2000 workers.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia