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Ramsgreave And Wilpshire
All photographs of this location in date order.
![A Clitheroe to Manchester Victoria service calls at Ramsgreave and Wilpshire, a station that only opened when services to Clitheroe resumed in 1987. It is better sited for the local population than the original Wilpshire station, closed in 1962, which is the white building in the distance, [See image 19311] now a private residence. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/11/2009]](/images/26000/26384.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
![The change in gradient can be seen ahead of 156479 as it leaves Ramsgreave and Wilpshire for Blackburn and begins the descent to Daisyfield Junction. It was this steep gradient that necessitated the sand drag being installed at Daisyfield [See image 26413] to protect the East Lancashire line junction when loose coupled diesel hauled freights were routed this way after the WCML was electrified. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/11/2009]](/images/26000/26476.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
![A late running Clitheroe - Manchester Victoria service is seen <br>
just south of Ramsgreave & Wilpshire station. Having completed the climb over the summit it is now on the downhill section to Daisyfield Junction and its next sheduled stop at Blackburn.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/03/2011]](/images/33000/33117.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
![A Manchester Victoria - Clitheroe service formed by 156425 departs <br>
north from Ramsgreave and Wilpshire station on 1 March 2011. This station was a new creation on the reopening to passenger services in the 1990s. The previous Wilpshire station was on the bend to the left and the Clitheroe bound platform can just be seen on the curve.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/03/2011]](/images/33000/33600.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
![A Clitheroe to Manchester service, formed by 156472, slows to a halt in the very short platform at Ramsgreave and Wilpshire. Behind the train the original Wilpshire station, closed in 1962, can be glimpsed. [See image 19868].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/07/2011]](/images/35000/35280.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
![A pair of 153s heading north from Daisyfield Junction, Blackburn, just about to reach the summit close to Ramsgreave & Wilpshire station on 29 August 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/08/2012]](/images/40000/40147.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
![A Clitheroe to Manchester Victoria service restarts from Ramsgreave & Wilpshire on 29 August 2012. The train is climbing Wilpshire bank, something it has been doing for over 4 miles since crossing Whalley viaduct.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/08/2012]](/images/40000/40159.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
![A 153/156 combination heading south to Manchester Victoria on 29 August 2012, having passed the site of the old Wilpshire station and now approaching the present day Ramsgreave & Wilpshire.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/08/2012]](/images/40000/40174.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
![156487, climbing the last few yards of the bank from Daisyfield Junction, passes under the Blackburn ring road near Ramsgreave and Wilpshire station on a service for Clitheroe.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/06/2014]](/images/48000/48365.jpg "Ramsgreave and Wilpshire")
