I wonder if I might submit the following entries for Eye's occasional series 'Railway Sculptures'?
Seen near the former Staff Halt for Longsight depot, this track panel and sleepers appear to have been left over from a relaying job.
Judging by the colour of the sleepers, and the well established vegetation which has sprouted through them, it looks like they've been there for a number of years and should qualify for entry into Eye's Railway Garden Competition as well.
A little further south are more piles of several hundred new concrete sleepers, slowly being swallowed up by the encroaching greenery.
Aside from the untidy appearance these present, how can the rail industry afford to waste material like this, I doubt this stuff is particularly cheap?