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Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway

Introduction

This was the only portion built of a much larger proposal. It was to have run through to Clitheroe and Elslack on the Leeds - Bradford and meet the Blackburn, Clitheroe and North Junction Railway at Clitheroe (the Blackburn line to extend to Elslack - never built beyond Chatburn).

Dates

27/07/1846	Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway The line, supported by the Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour, is incorporated.
14/01/1850	Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway Partly opened.
31/12/1850	Railway Clearing House By this date, Ardrossan Railway, Caledonian Railway, Cockermouth and Workington Railway, Eastern Counties Railway, East Lincolnshire Railway, Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway, Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, Great Northern Railway, Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (London and North Western Railway), Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Maryport and Carlisle Railway, North British Railway, Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour, Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, South Staffordshire Railway, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Stockton and Hartlepool Railway, St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, Stirling and Dunfermline Railway, Whitehaven Junction Railway and York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway join.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

Maudlands to Deepdale

Maudland Bridge

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A view east under the bridge that carried Maudland Bank road over the railway. Under the left hand part was the chord line of 1850-1885 that connected ...
John McIntyre 24/03/2008

Work continues (slowly) on what appears to be an extension to a university car park at Maudland Bridge, and it seems the rails of the old Longridge ...
Mark Bartlett 25/12/2020

Recent vegetation clearance at Maudlands Bridge has opened up the view along the old Deepdale and Longridge line towards the entrance to the Miley ...
Mark Bartlett 16/01/2017

Slumbering under the snow. Tracks of the erstwhile Longridge branch, unused now for nearly twenty years, can just be seen beneath the Boxing ...
Mark Bartlett 26/12/2010

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Deepdale Tunnels

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Deepdale Junction

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Preston and Longridge Railway

The end of the line. View along the old Longridge branch formation towards Deepdale Junction through the Network Rail boundary fence. The Longridge ...
Mark Bartlett 21/04/2019

Deepdale Mill Street level crossing, disused since the last coal train ran in 1994, looking north east towards Deepdale Junction and Longridge. Behind ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/2011

Nearly twenty years after the final coal train, one of the rails on the surviving track at Deepdale Junction can be seen in this September 2011 view ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/2011

The now disused level crossing at Deepdale Mill Street in Preston looking north west. The lines in the foreground originally went to the terminus of ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/2011

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Aborted Works

Hurst Green Cutting

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The story of the abortive main line through Ribblesdale to Yorkshire has a full chapter in David Hindle's excellent book 'All stations to Longridge'. ...
Mark Bartlett 22/06/2020

Visiting the Hurst Green Cutting, on the railway through Ribblesdale that never was, it is not obvious where most of the 15,000 cubic yards of ...
Mark Bartlett 22/06/2020

The railway that never was. In 1847 the Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway excavated a cutting near Hurst Green, on a proposed ...
Mark Bartlett 22/06/2020

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Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway

Introduction

Dates

Portions of line and locations

Maudlands to Deepdale

Maudland Bridge

Deepdale Tunnels

Deepdale Junction

Aborted Works

Hurst Green Cutting

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