Date: 28/11/2021

There are calls for people to throw their support behind Lancashire's Restoring Your Railways Fund bids

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Plans for new stations and lines in Lancashire railway overhaul

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There are calls for people to throw their support behind Lancashire's Restoring Your Railways Fund bids

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This view looks north along the Fleetwood line from Gerrard's Terrace bridge in Poulton-le-Fylde on 31st December 2019. Signals and track are still in place on the long closed (and severed) railway, although when the lines were fully operational there was a triple bracket signal at this point. Immediately behind the camera was Poulton No.5 signal box where the direct line to Blackpool North (the Poulton Curve) diverged from the line to Poulton No.3 just outside the station. The preservation group who hope to reopen the line to Fleetwood continue to make slow progress. See image [[27344]] taken from this spot ten year's earlier.
See query 2225
Location: Poulton No 5 Junction
Company: Poulton Deviation (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and London and North Western Railway)
31/12/2019 Mark Bartlett

View from the buffer stops at Colne station on 9 November as a train prepares to depart for Blackpool South via Burnley, Blackburn and Preston.
Location: Colne
Company: Accrington, Burnley and Colne Branch (East Lancashire Railway)
09/11/2007 John McIntyre

There isn't a railway here and there hasn't been one, however the derelict site of the former Glenburn Sports College (right) and West Lancashire College (left) has been mentioned in a proposal to bring rail back to Skelmersdale. The document suggests extending the Merseyrail service east of Kirkby and leave the existing Wigan to Kirkby line east of Rainford Jct. This is the proposed station site in Skelmersdale and interestingly a planning notice for the demolition of these buildings on or after 24 April 2017 was found during the visit.
Location: Skelmersdale
Company: Unset
07/04/2017 John McIntyre

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Tags: x Great British Railways x Network Rail x Fleetwood x Poulton x Skipton x Colne x Skelmersdale x South Fylde Loop x Clitheroe x Hellifield