Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway

Introduction

This was the only portion built of a much larger proposal. It was to have run through to Clitheroe and Elslack on the Leeds - Bradford and meet the Blackburn, Clitheroe and North Junction Railway at Clitheroe (the Blackburn line to extend to Elslack - never built beyond Chatburn).






Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Maudlands to Deepdale

A view east under the bridge that carried Maudland Bank road over the railway. Under the left hand part was the chord line of 1850-1885 that connected ...
John McIntyre 24/03/2008
Work continues (slowly) on what appears to be an extension to a university car park at Maudland Bridge, and it seems the rails of the old Longridge ...
Mark Bartlett 25/12/2020
Recent vegetation clearance at Maudlands Bridge has opened up the view along the old Deepdale and Longridge line towards the entrance to the Miley ...
Mark Bartlett 16/01/2017
Slumbering under the snow. Tracks of the erstwhile Longridge branch, unused now for nearly twenty years, can just be seen beneath the Boxing ...
Mark Bartlett 26/12/2010
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The end of the line. View along the old Longridge branch formation towards Deepdale Junction through the Network Rail boundary fence. The Longridge ...
Mark Bartlett 21/04/2019
Deepdale Mill Street level crossing, disused since the last coal train ran in 1994, looking north east towards Deepdale Junction and Longridge. Behind ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/2011
Nearly twenty years after the final coal train, one of the rails on the surviving track at Deepdale Junction can be seen in this September 2011 view ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/2011
The now disused level crossing at Deepdale Mill Street in Preston looking north west. The lines in the foreground originally went to the terminus of ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/2011
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Aborted Works

The story of the abortive main line through Ribblesdale to Yorkshire has a full chapter in David Hindle's excellent book 'All stations to Longridge'. ...
Mark Bartlett 22/06/2020
Visiting the Hurst Green Cutting, on the railway through Ribblesdale that never was, it is not obvious where most of the 15,000 cubic yards of ...
Mark Bartlett 22/06/2020
The railway that never was. In 1847 the Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway excavated a cutting near Hurst Green, on a proposed ...
Mark Bartlett 22/06/2020
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