North Lancashire Loop (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

150224 and 150139 have just left Blackburn heading for Rainford via Copy Pit and Manchester Victoria on 13th September 2023. The train is passing the ...
Mark Bartlett 13/09/2023
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Until 1964 this would have been a view from the Blackburn bound platform at Great Harwood. The station had closed in 1957 but handled summer ...
Mark Bartlett 13/09/2023
The last trains ran through Great Harwood in 1964. Now this street, known as Railway Terrace, overlooks a public greenspace that has been built on the ...
Mark Bartlett 13/09/2023
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Just to the south of Martholme Viaduct some sidings were opened in 1900 to serve nearby Martholme Colliery via a short branch. A signal box controlled ...
Mark Bartlett 13/09/2023
For many years the viaduct at Martholme was inaccessible but is now a feature of a trackbed greenway that leads to it from Mill Lane in Great Harwood. ...
Mark Bartlett 13/09/2023
The tall and curving Martholme Viaduct, on the old Padiham Loop, seen at track level looking towards Great Harwood in 2016. See image 20590 taken ...
Mark Bartlett 08/04/2016
The curved viaduct on the LYR Padiham Loop between Simonstone and Great Harwood opened in 1877 and last carried trains in 1964 but thankfully ...
Mark Bartlett 28/03/2008
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A view east towards the site of Padiham station. This was to the left of the trees in the centre of the photo, with the goods yard to the right in the ...
John McIntyre 15/06/2010
The remains of a bufferstop and a short length of track to the west of Padiham near to the entrance to the former power station. The Padiham Greenway ...
John McIntyre 15/06/2010
Looking down the bank towards Padiham station from Dryden Street bridge on 10th October 2019. Although the line from Rose Grove was on a 1:40 gradient ...
Mark Bartlett 10/10/2019
After final closure in 1993, thirty years after the last passenger train, the tracks of the line to Padiham Power Station lay undisturbed for many ...
Mark Bartlett 10/10/2019
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A grab shot of the point where the west end extension of the lengthy goods loop, that runs west from Gannow Junction to beyond Rose Grove station, ...
David Pesterfield 04/07/2023
73069+73134 stand at Rose Grove West with the MRTS/SVRS 'North West Tour' on 20 April 1968 see image 29203. ...
K A Gray 20/04/1968
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