Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway



Dates

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Takes over the Lancaster Canal, and thus the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. Services to the south from Lancaster Penny Lane diverted to Lancaster Castle.
15/05/1837Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Incorporated.
  /  /1840Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Line opened
25/06/1840Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Opened.
16/07/1840Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour
Opened with a terminus at Preston Leighton Street (later Maudlands Goods), the line crossing the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway on the level to the immediate west of the terminus.
31/12/1845Railway Clearing House
By this date, Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, Chester and Birmingham Railway?, Grand Junction Railway, Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Manchester and Birmingham Railway, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and North Union Railway join.
01/06/1885London and North Western Railway
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
A joint curve opened from the Longridge branch to the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. Maudlands Goods depot altered to be approached from the North East via the Longridge branch and level crossings taken out.
06/05/1974Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Preston and Wigan Railway
Electric services begin.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This is an end on junction north of Preston station where the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway met the North Union Railway.
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North Union Railway


This short lived station was the proposed terminus of the Bolton and Preston Railway in Preston, when proposed it was to be reached from the south perhaps using the former route of the Preston to Walton Tramroad (Lancaster Canal) which had a number of sidings in the area around the canal basin as far as Dock Street to the west.
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North Union Railway


A Virgin Pendolino accelerates northwards having just passed Fylde Junction in Preston on 1st November 2016. The buildings on the left are part of St ...
Mark Bartlett 01/11/2016
The lines around Preston were closed on 18th and 19th February 2023 for major pointwork replacement. The sidings at Fylde Junction would usually be ...
Mark Bartlett 18/02/2023
Northern Sprinter 150110 swings west at Fylde Junction with a Hazel Grove to Blackpool North stopping service on 19th May 2016. The Lancaster lines ...
Mark Bartlett 19/05/2016
Christmas Day 2020 sees three different types of EMU stabled outside Preston Power Signal Box for the two day break in rail services. Three TPE 397s ...
Mark Bartlett 25/12/2020
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This was a pair of railway flat crossings immediately north of Fylde Junction.
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Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour


This is a fine bridge over Fylde Road of dressed stone with footpath arches on either side and a roadway arch in the middle (a little narrow for a two lane modern road).
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The last arch at the north end of the mainly brick Fylde Road Viaduct is this stone structure, which still carries the WCML. Now hidden away at the ...
Mark Bartlett 06/12/2020
St. Walburge's Church spire is a landmark that has appeared on many Preston railway photographs over the years, although usually captured from the ...
Mark Bartlett 28/01/2017
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This station closed in 1925 and little if anything remains to show its location. It served Oxheys Cattle Market.
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195118 crosses the Sharoe Brook Bridge as it heads out of Preston with a Northern service from Manchester Airport to Barrow on 15th November 2021. ...
Mark Bartlett 15/11/2021
397006, working from Edinburgh to Manchester Airport, crosses the Sharoe Brook on the run down towards the Preston stop on 15th November 2021. This ...
Mark Bartlett 15/11/2021
Tree and vegetation clearance of the WCML cutting north of Oxheys by Network Rail has opened up some vantage points around the Sharoe Brook Bridge, ...
Mark Bartlett 15/11/2021
Heading back to Mossend after weekend engineering duties are DBS 66140, 66060, 66105 (in DBS red) and 66011. This image, looking towards Preston on ...
Mark Bartlett 04/10/2015
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This was a short lived station to the west of Broughton. Opened 26 June 1840 and closed and replaced by Broughton [Lancashire] [2nd], which was further north, in November 1840. Nothing now remains.
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This was a two platform station with the main building on the northbound platform.
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TPE 397004 hurries past the St. Helier footbridge in Barton, nearing its Preston destination, with a service from Glasgow on a bitterly cold 13th ...
Mark Bartlett 13/02/2021
Before its recent repaint into BR Green (and before running as 45562 and 45627), 45699 'Galatea' ran in this London Midland Region crimson livery, ...
Mark Bartlett 03/03/2018
The last operational 87 in the UK, 87002 'Royal Sovereign', splendidly liveried in Inter-City Swallow colours and paused for stock inspection in ...
Mark Bartlett 14/01/2022
A pair of Avanti Super Voyagers head south from Barton & Broughton on 15 April 2021 making their way to their next stop at Preston, To the left is the ...
John McIntyre 15/04/2021
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This was a short lived station to the east of Dunscombe. It was named for the nearby Roe Buck Inn, now Roebuck Hotel. The bridge over the line was called Roebuck Bridge. The station was replaced by Brock, just to the north, in 1849, or possibly earlier.
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A reminder alongside the Lancaster Canal that, before nationalisation, this waterway was owned by the railway. This L&NWR boundary post is on the ...
Mark Bartlett 08/11/2020
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This was a small two platform station which replaced Roebuck to the south. There was a siding on the west side of the line to the north of a level crossing and passenger station to the south.
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Black 5 45231 is seen on the Brock straight working Saphos Trains 'The Lakelander' tour on 29 August 2020. The tour had started diesel hauled at ...
John McIntyre 29/08/2020
A Class 221 five car Virgin Voyager heads south in the evening sunshine at Brock on 8 August 2011. The view is south-east, with the River Brock just ...
John McIntyre 08/08/2011
While waiting at Brock for the late running GB XV railtour, 66425 'Nigel J Kerchstein' ran through with a Mossend to Daventry container train. The ...
Mark Bartlett 18/04/2023
Classic traction on the evening flasks as 57004 and 37611 head south at Brock on 2nd June 2015. This working has gone over entirely to Class 68 and/or ...
Mark Bartlett 02/06/2015
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I saw only one container space vacant on the northbound Tesco on 29th June 2022. 88006 'Juno' was in charge, seen approaching Badger Bridge at Brock. ...
Mark Bartlett 29/06/2022
Unusual working on the WCML on 11th July 2022. Royal liveried 67005 hauls Bellmond Pullman coaches north at Brock in an empty stock move from Stewarts ...
Mark Bartlett 11/07/2022
56302 takes a rake of empty box wagons northwards through Brock on 10th March 2022. This Colas working was from Longport, near Stoke, to Carlisle and ...
Mark Bartlett 10/03/2022
66130 passes the site of Brock Water Troughs with the Seaforth to Mossend containers on 10th March 2022. Plenty of goods being transported along the ...
Mark Bartlett 10/03/2022
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This station on the main line was the junction for the line to Knott End. The two lines ran north for some distance before the branch ran to Garstang Town.
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Garstang and Knot End Railway
Recently refurbished Voyagers 221114 and 115 approach the bridge over the River Calder at Garstang, working from Euston to Glasgow (via Birmingham), ...
Mark Bartlett 27/02/2021
Glimpsed through bare trees, over a mill pond smooth canal, 88010 heads north through Garstang and Catterall with a Daventry to Mossend intermodal ...
Mark Bartlett 26/11/2020
In the run up to Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, TPE 397011 has had special vinyls applied to its cabs. Seen at Garstang and Catterall on 1st May ...
Mark Bartlett 01/05/2023
A very clean looking 66175 heads south at Garstang with a Mossend to Daventry service on 14th April 2020. The previous month the locomotive had been ...
Mark Bartlett 14/04/2020
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The former site of a level crossing where a footbridge crosses the railway alongside Woodacre Hall (to the west) and the M6 (to the east).
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Freightliner ran some regular driver training trips from Crewe to Carlisle and back during November 2023. This is 90047 crossing the Grizedale Brook ...
Mark Bartlett 23/11/2023
92043 takes four empty Caledonian Sleeper MkV coaches from Wembley to Polmadie, seen passing Woodacre on Sunday 18th September 2022. The different ...
Mark Bartlett 18/09/2022
Scotrail 156456 makes an unusual sight passing Woodacre on 6th January 2024. This was an ecs working from Corkerhill to Wolverton. A hurried shot. I ...
Mark Bartlett 06/01/2024
Chiltern Railways 68013 'Peter Wrenford-Bush' was an unusual sighting passing Woodacre on 24th June 2022. Presumably following repair or heavy exam it ...
Mark Bartlett 24/06/2022
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This short lived station was replaced by Scorton [Lancashire] [2nd] not far to the north. It opened on 26th June 1840 and closed in August. It was south of Scorton.
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195119 runs across the low embankment at Scorton, working from Windermere to Manchester Airport, on a sunny 31st January 2022. ...
Mark Bartlett 31/01/2022
The very distinctive 390119 passes south through Scorton on 31st January 2022. ...
Mark Bartlett 31/01/2022
The autumn colours are almost gone as 66716 passes Scorton with the Hams Hall to Mossend intermodal on 20th November 2023. The two boxes behind the ...
Mark Bartlett 20/11/2023
Now that the Hitachi sets for the West Coast are being assembled, what next for the Avanti Voyagers? Two unidentified sets tilt round the curves, as ...
Mark Bartlett 25/08/2022
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This was a two platform station with the main building on the southbound platform and a signal box. It was to the west of Scorton itself.
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47853, running as 47614, brings up the rear of 'The Lakelander', steam hauled from Preston to Carlisle by Black 5 45231 on 20th May 2023. The Brush 4 ...
Mark Bartlett 20/05/2023
Black 5 45231 takes 'The Lakelander' from Preston to Carlisle, passing Scorton on a sunny 20th May 2023. The train returned south via the Cumbrian ...
Mark Bartlett 20/05/2023
47805, running as D1935, takes a rake of empty LSL stock from Crewe to Carlisle past frost covered fields at Scorton on 17th January 2023. The loco ...
Mark Bartlett 17/01/2023
DBSO 9707 leads the Scotrail push-pull set over the embankment at Scorton working ecs back to Crewe on Monday 26th June 2023 after starring at the ...
Mark Bartlett 26/06/2023
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This fine double track six arch viaduct crosses the River Wyre not far north of the former Scorton [Lancashire] [2nd] station. Also known, historically, as Wyre Bridge or even Six Arch Viaduct.
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A grubby 68003 'Astute', caught by the setting sun as it double heads a fully loaded Daventry to Mossend container train with even dirtier 68018 ...
Mark Bartlett 20/12/2022
GBRf 66708 'Glory to Ukraine' shows off its special livery as it hauls the Hams Hall to Mossend containers over the embankment at Scorton, approaching ...
Mark Bartlett 15/08/2023
GBRf 66731 shows off its special Thank you NHS livery as it passes over the River Wyre at Scorton with a lightly loaded Hams Hall to Mossend ...
Mark Bartlett 09/08/2022
66735 'Peterborough United' crosses the River Wyre at Scorton, on 3rd March 2023, hauling the daily Hams Hall to Mossend containers. ...
Mark Bartlett 03/03/2023
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This was a two platform station with the main station building on the southbound platform.
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Snowploughs on the move. Having travelled down from Carlisle to Crewe a couple of nights earlier, these two ploughs were taken back to Kingmoor on ...
Mark Bartlett 20/01/2024
Colas liveried 43274 leads the Network Rail Management Train through Bay Horse on 21st June 2023. This was a working from Slateford to Crewe with ...
Mark Bartlett 21/06/2023
Evening sunshine accentuates the orange livery on 90011 and 90015 as they take a Coatbridge to Daventry intermodal service through Bay Horse on 14th ...
Mark Bartlett 14/06/2022
A Manchester Airport to Edinburgh TPE 397 heads across the embankment at Bay Horse on 22nd January 2021. Photograph incidental to daily permitted ...
Mark Bartlett 22/01/2021
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This was a two platform station. The station house still stands to the west of the site.
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66422 hauls 37425, in Regional Railways livery, from Crewe to Carlisle seen approaching Hampson Lane on 16th September 2022. 37425 is one of the DRS ...
Mark Bartlett 16/09/2022
Most southbound TPEs from Glasgow and Edinburgh run through to Manchester or Liverpool but this Class 397, seen in the cutting at Hampson Lane near ...
Mark Bartlett 30/10/2020
After a wet morning there is a little watery sunshine as 390103 powers north through the cutting at Hampson on 30th October 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 30/10/2020
After a sunny few days it was a grey morning as 195117, working Barrow to Manchester Airport on 24th June 2022, emerged from the cutting to the south ...
Mark Bartlett 24/06/2022
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This double track six arch viaduct bestrides Galgate crossing the River Conder and neighbouring roads.
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The red livery of a Royal Mail Class 325 parcels EMU is enhanced by the setting sun as it crosses the River Conder at Galgate, heading from Shieldmuir ...
Mark Bartlett 09/05/2016
DB 66114, and the Horrocksford to Mossend cement tankers, are illuminated by the evening sun as they cross the Conder Viaduct at Galgate on 9th May ...
Mark Bartlett 09/05/2016
High above the Galgate rooftops 90048 and 90045 speed a Daventry to Coatbridge intermodal over the Conder Viaduct on 11th January 2018. The River ...
Mark Bartlett 11/01/2018
Just to the south of the Oubeck Loops a six arch viaduct carries the WCML across the River Conder and the village of Galgate. Here, looking east, a ...
Mark Bartlett 29/01/2010
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After a succession of fine sunny evenings it was quite murky when I managed to venture out to Lancaster on 27th July 2021. TPE 397008 hurried through ...
Mark Bartlett 27/07/2021
On a misty July morning the 'Pendle Dalesman' topped the climb out of Lancaster with a Bullied Whuffle from the chimney rather than a ...
Mark Bartlett 27/07/2021
68026 'Enterprise' propels an ecs TPE push-pull set south at Oubeck, working from Carlisle to Crewe on a dull and grey 29th January 2021. Photo ...
Mark Bartlett 29/01/2021
66013, on the thrice weekly Hardendale to Margam freight, climbs slowly up the bank out of Lancaster on 4th June 2021. It was briefly looped at Oubeck ...
Mark Bartlett 04/06/2021
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This was the junction between the approach to the original Lancaster [1st] terminus of 1840 and the extension north by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway of 1846 which left the old terminus on a short branch.
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Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Freightliner's 90048 and 90015, heading from Basford Hall to Coatbridge, run slowly down the bank at Lancaster on 14th June 2023. They were under a ...
Mark Bartlett 14/06/2023
After some regular runs by 35018, 46115 'Scots Guardsman' put in an appearance on 'The Dalesman' on 23rd August 2022 and made a spirited departure ...
Mark Bartlett 23/08/2022
With the heat from its exhaust shimmering, 66616 digs in to the climb of the bank out of Lancaster, passing Lancaster Old Junction with the daily ...
Mark Bartlett 01/06/2022
Despite its interchangeable identities (see image 77792) Jubilee 45699 was making some glorious chimney music as it dug in to the bank out of ...
Mark Bartlett 10/08/2021
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Now known as Lancaster Greaves, it was almost certainly not known as this when open as a passenger station. This was the original terminus of the line from Preston and was left on a short branch following the opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway in 1846 and closed to passengers in 1849.
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The original L&PJ station in Lancaster was only used by passengers from 1840 to 1849 but most of its site continued in use as the city's railway goods ...
Mark Bartlett 13/10/2017
The imposing frontage of Lancaster's first station, a Grade 2 listed building is unfortunately obscured by two leilandi trees in the front garden. ...
Mark Bartlett 25/09/2009
The rear of Lancaster Greaves station building and probably the point where the tracks from Preston would have terminated. Former stable block still ...
Mark Bartlett 25/09/2009
The view out from the rear of the original terminus of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, only used as such from 1840 to 1849. The old ...
Mark Bartlett 25/09/2009
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