Kirkham and Wesham

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Kirkham and Wesham (1890-)

Opened on the Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour.

Description

This is a three platform station on the Preston to Blackpool line.

This station replaced Kirkham, immediately to its west, in 1890.

Until 2017 two high speed tracks bypassed the station on its north side, dividing where a planned (but not built) island platform would have been. To the south were two slow lines on either side of an island platform.

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Station




News items

17/11/2017Blackpool to Preston railway line work will be worth pain says rail chief '[Blackpool Gazette]
06/07/2016Rail line to close for up to 18 weeks [Gazette]