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'Colne, Accrington and Burnley, and Bradford, all figure highly in official indexes of multiple deprivation. The Colne railway line currently goes through wards that are among the most deprived.'
(Permalink) Accrington Bradford Burnley Colne Hyndburn Pendle Skipton  Colne: View past 150131, awaiting departure for Preston on 8th March 2023, looking over the end of the platform at Colne, the bridge over Primet Hill and the viaduct beyond. On the other side of the viaduct ...  Skipton: The well travelled 322482 rolls into Skipton on a service from Bradford Forster Square in September 2012. The EMU has previously been used on the North Berwick branch and Stansted Express services see ... |
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Broadcaster and former senior politician Michael Portillo has added his voice to the campaign to reopen a rail link which would provide a direct route from Keighley into Lancashire.
The presenter of the popular BBC series, Great British Railway Journeys, has pledged to feature a reopened Skipton-Colne line in the programme. Campaigners have long been calling for the 12-mile route, which closed in 1970, to be restored. (Permalink) Colne Michael Portillo Skipton  Colne: Basic facilities at Colne in August 1977 looking south west towards Nelson. The station was by then a terminus, with the through line to Skipton (behind the camera) having closed in 1970 see image [[3 ...  Colne: Site of the former carriage sidings at Colne in November 2007, with the entrance to an old air-raid shelter standing alongside.  Colne: Ivatt 2-6-0 46440 entering Colne from Skipton in June 1952. |
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There are calls for people to throw their support behind Lancashire's Restoring Your Railways Fund bids
(Permalink) Clitheroe Colne Fleetwood Great British Railways Hellifield Network Rail Poulton Skelmersdale Skipton South Fylde Loop  Skelmersdale: 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 bri ...  Poulton No 5 Junction: 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, a ...  Colne: 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. |
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