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Preston and Longridge Railway

Dates

14/07/1836	Preston and Longridge Railway Act passed.
01/05/1840	Preston and Longridge Railway Opened to Preston Deepdale. Horse operated.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Deepdale Street

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Deepdale Coal Concentration Depot, at the truncated end of the Longridge branch, in 1992. This was two years before final closure and a rake of hopper ...
Bill Roberton //1992

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Deepdale Junction

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See also
Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction 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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Ribbleton [1st]

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Looking towards Preston along the old Longridge Railway at Ribbleton in March 2019. The telephone exchange seen here, and an adjacent housing ...
Mark Bartlett 17/03/2019

Unless you know where to look the old platform at Ribbleton is easy to miss. It lies about 200 yards north of the Cromwell Road cycleway access point. ...
Mark Bartlett 21/04/2019

A view along the trackbed cycle path, looking toward Preston, between Ribbleton and Deepdale in March 2019. The railway land is very wide at this ...
Mark Bartlett 17/03/2019

Looking towards Longridge on the old trackbed cycle path between Deepdale and Ribbleton in March 2019. The steel bridge carries Blackpool Road, built ...
Mark Bartlett 17/03/2019

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Ribbleton [2nd]

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It is over ninety years since passengers last used Ribbleton, on the Longridge branch from Preston, but the station survived as a dwelling. The grass ...
Mark Bartlett 17/05/2021

A view along the old trackbed towards Longridge at the former Ribbleton station, the building on the left in March 2008. The over bridge in the ...
John McIntyre 18/03/2008

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Grimsargh

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The Preston and Longridge Railway was built as a horse drawn tramway taking stone from the Longridge quarries. Many of the significant public ...
Mark Bartlett 08/09/2021

A public footpath briefly follows the old Longridge branch trackbed out of Grimsargh towards Longridge. This is the point where, until 1957, the ...
Mark Bartlett 30/08/2021

The view along the Preston and Longridge railway trackbed towards Grimsargh in August 2021. The posts by the trees roughly mark the spot where the ...
Mark Bartlett 30/08/2021

This old gradient post, just outside Grimsargh heading for Longridge, has been photographed before but has now been turned into a footpath marker post ...
Mark Bartlett 30/08/2021

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Longridge (Lancashire)

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Inside the restored station building at Longridge See image 33685 is a display of railway pictures and artefacts including this reminder that from ...
Mark Bartlett 16/04/2011

For a structure built to carry the horse tramway to Lord's Quarry over a minor track this is a very substantial and well built bridge. However, the ...
Mark Bartlett 22/02/2019

End of the line. One of two spurs of the Tootle Height branch in Longridge ran to Lord's Quarry. This closed around the time of WWI and is now almost ...
Mark Bartlett 22/02/2019

Beyond Longridge station a freight only line continued towards Tootle Heights where it split into two short branches. One line turned east and passed ...
Mark Bartlett 08/07/2010

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Preston and Longridge Railway

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Locations along the line

Deepdale Street

Deepdale Junction

Ribbleton [1st]

Ribbleton [2nd]

Grimsargh

Longridge (Lancashire)

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