Date: 09/08/2010

ALMOST 500 train passengers were scanned for knives and drugs as Lancashire Constabulary and British Transport Police officers carried out checks on commuters at Blackburn, Accrington and Darwen train stations. [From Mark Bartlett]

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500 checked in East Lancs train stations sweep

Lancashire Telegraph

ALMOST 500 train passengers were scanned for knives and drugs as Lancashire Constabulary and British Transport Police officers carried out checks on

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A Clitheroe - Manchester Victoria train runs into Darwen station on 17 May 2008.
Location: Darwen
Company: Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway (Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway)
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A Glasgow - Birmingham Voyager, diverted due to engineering work, crawls west through Clitheroe station on Saturday 17 May. The train is following in the wake of a local Clitheroe - Manchester Victoria DMU (as far as Blackburn) as it heads towards the WCML to regain its normal route south.
Location: Clitheroe
Company: Blackburn, Clitheroe and North Western Junction Railway (Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway)
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Location: Blackburn
Company: Blackburn and Preston Railway
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