Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour

Introduction

This line ran from Preston to Fleetwood [1st]. The majority of it, from Fylde Junction to Poulton No 1 Junction, remains open with the portion from Poulton to Burn Naze, and beyond, currently in preservation for re-opening.



Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Preston to Fleetwood



This was a pair of railway flat crossings immediately north of Fylde Junction.
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Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway


The name is assumed. At this junction the Preston and Wyre Railway Dock and Harbour's approach to its Preston terminus (Maudlands [P&WR] , opened 1840) was met by a curve of 1844 which gave it access to Preston via what is now named Fylde Junction.
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The Pacers are now almost gone from Lancashire rails but here is a flash back to the summer of 2018 and 142036 leads a trio of the four-wheelers over ...
Mark Bartlett 10/07/2018
Class 319s have become regular traction on the Blackpool line since electrification, and will take over even more services when they start using the ...
Mark Bartlett 10/07/2018
Former Scotrail 158870, still with Saltire vinyls, has been used on Northern driver training for several months. Seen here at Maudlands Viaduct ...
Mark Bartlett 10/07/2018
A Sprinter Pacer combination runs across Maudlands Viaduct towards Preston with a service from Blackpool South on 10th February 2018. All masts and ...
Mark Bartlett 10/02/2018
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A Hazel Grove to Blackpool North stopping service, formed by 150132/138, approaches the Blackpool Road bridge on a gloomy 22nd November 2016. This ...
Mark Bartlett 22/11/2016
A Then & Now shot from Blackpool Road bridge in Preston with a Blackpool North to Euston Pendolino heading towards the city centre. See image ...
Mark Bartlett 09/10/2018
397011 leads a line up of CAF EMUs, stabled in front of Preston PSB on Christmas Day 2019. In addition to TPE Class 397s there were also Northern ...
Mark Bartlett 25/12/2019
319381 runs under the new wires alongside 'Tom Benson Way' as it approaches Preston with a Blackpool North to Manchester service on 7th October 2018. ...
Mark Bartlett 07/10/2018
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Future photos submitted from this location may have to be under the name Cottam Parkway, as that new station is now funded and scheduled to be ...
Mark Bartlett 07/06/2021
This short but pleasant lineside public footpath, from Sidgreaves Lane to Lea Road, will disappear when the new Cottam Parkway station is built on ...
Mark Bartlett 14/06/2021
DB 90036 brings up the rear of a test/training train passing through Lea Road on 5th March 2020. 90019 was leading this rake of ex-LNER stock in ...
Mark Bartlett 05/03/2020
319381 approaches Darkinson Lane road bridge to the west of the site of Lea Road station on 17 August 2019 while working a Blackpool to Manchester ...
John McIntyre 17/08/2019
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A pair of CAF EMUs, working from Blackpool to Hazel Grove, pass under the Sidgreaves Lane/Darkinson Lane bridge near Lea Road on 7th June 2021. In the ...
Mark Bartlett 07/06/2021
Day 7 of the GBXV Tour was supposed to be hauled by two Jubilees from Blackpool North to York. 45690 and 45699 both left Carnforth with the empty ...
Mark Bartlett 21/04/2023
Main deck girders in place on the Lea Viaduct, carrying a new road over the railway between Salwick and the site of the new Cottam Parkway station, ...
Mark Bartlett 14/06/2021
Good progress is being made on the Lea Viaduct of the new Preston Western Distributor Road with decking now in place. The bridge will span the railway ...
Mark Bartlett 14/06/2021
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390137 passes Salwick's island platform with the 0744 Blackpool North to Euston Avanti service on 21st April 2023. ...
Mark Bartlett 21/04/2023
Seen from the Lancaster Canal towpath, two CAF 331 EMUs pass the nuclear fuel plant at Salwick with a Hazel Grove to Blackpool North service on 17th ...
Mark Bartlett 17/10/2020
Driver training on the new Northern CAF trains continues apace. 195110 was one of two sets working out of Blackpool North on these duties on 16th ...
Mark Bartlett 16/08/2019
Five commuters to the nearby works alighted from 156452 at Salwick on 21st April 2023. This was the 0748, which continues to Blackpool South. The ...
Mark Bartlett 21/04/2023
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331025 leads a Manchester Airport to Blackpool North service, running past the site of Spen Lane box, between Salwick and Kirkham, on 16th November ...
Mark Bartlett 16/11/2020
158817, on the Blackpool South, East Lancs and Ormskirk roster, crosses the bridge at Spen Lane near Kirkham on 16th November 2020. This long and low ...
Mark Bartlett 16/11/2020
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150149 passes near to the site of Treales Siding as it heads west towards Kirkham whilst on a Colne to Blackpool South service on 25 May 2017. The ...
John McIntyre 25/05/2017
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This is a three platform station on the Preston to Blackpool line.
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DBC 90036, pan down, brings up the rear of a Euston to Blackpool Illuminations excursion, seen passing Kirkham on 27th November 2021. Train engine was ...
Mark Bartlett 27/11/2021
390002 slides through Kirkham and Wesham with the morning service from Birmingham New St to Blackpool North on 29th March 2022. Compared to many ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2022
Northern DMU 150149 is seen leaving Kirkham and Wesham on 27 October 2017 with a service to Blackpool North. On the left the new sleepers have been ...
John McIntyre 27/10/2017
The Vintage Trains 'Blackpool Illuminations Explorer' hurries through Kirkham & Wesham behind Loram Rail's 37418 'An Commun Gaidhealach' on 11th ...
Mark Bartlett 11/11/2023
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This station was replaced by Kirkham and Wesham just to the east. ...

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Stanier Coronation class pacific 6233, in LMS lined black livery, heads to Blackpool North with a railtour on 5 June 2010. The train is seen at the ...
John McIntyre 05/06/2010
A Blackpool North service west of Kirkham on 12 September. The tracks on the right once carried trains to Blackpool Central. ...
John McIntyre 12/09/2007
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Catenary now clutters the views from this footbridge, to the west of Kirkham station. See image 62067 from 2017. 195111 passes the junction with ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2022
Blackpool South services pass at Kirkham on 29th March 2022. 156455 has just left the branch and briefly run 'wrong line' before crossing to the Up ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2022
156452 joins the single line branch to Blackpool South at Kirkham North Junction on 29th March 2022. This view is from the Tarnbrick bridge carrying ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2022
A Northern Class 142 on a Blackpool South to Colne service comes off the branch at Kirkham North Jct on 29 July 2011. The signalbox on the right was ...
John McIntyre 29/07/2011
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Northern 319384 heads towards Kirkham & Wesham with a Manchester service from Blackpool North in June 2018. On the left is the remains of the line ...
John McIntyre 08/06/2018
319368 rolls along the long straight to the west of Kirkham with a Liverpool to Blackpool North service on 27th November 2021. This view taken from ...
Mark Bartlett 27/11/2021
Bradkirk Junction opened as a triangle in 1846 and was the start of the Lytham branch, now part of the Blackpool South line. In 1874 a cut off line ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2022
Part way between Bradkirk Junction and Weeton a public footpath crosses the line. This bridge, installed for electrification, replaced a foot crossing ...
Mark Bartlett 27/11/2021
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This signal box from around 1877 survived until the early 1980s. The location was south of Weeton where the B5260 crossed the line. Weeton [Lancashire] station was to the west of Weeton. ...

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Pendolino 390013 runs through the Fylde countryside to the north of Weeton cutting between Kirkham and Poulton-le-Fylde. The train is 1P92, the ...
Mark Bartlett 25/06/2018
A nearly thwarted attempt at a Then and Now image of London trains at Weeton between Poulton and Kirkham. New bridge parapets prevented a ...
Mark Bartlett 25/06/2018
Just beyond the deep cutting at Weeton the line to Blackpool North runs onto a low embankment covered with reeds. These are lit by the evening sun as ...
Mark Bartlett 07/04/2010
Electrification progress at Weeton, viewed from the over bridge by the site of the signal box on 9th January 2018. The line reopened in April 2018 ...
Mark Bartlett 09/01/2018
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This was the site of a short lived station. The site was probably close to where the 1847 OS map is marked 'Watch House'. The station was west of Weeton.
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A sunny afternoon as Northern 319365 runs over the long Singleton embankment towards Poulton-le-Fylde with a Manchester Airport to Blackpool North ...
Mark Bartlett 13/02/2019
A 156 Sprinter (covering for the rostered 319 EMU) passes through the site of long closed Singleton station with a Blackpool to Preston service on ...
Mark Bartlett 13/02/2019
The overhead wiring team out at work on a sunny but cold 19 March 2018. This view east across Singleton Bank shows a road-rail lorry on the left ...
John McIntyre 19/03/2018
Situated a long way from the village it was supposed to serve, Singleton station closed in 1932. Until the 1990s a small signal cabin remained as an ...
Mark Bartlett 09/09/2008
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This was one of the original stations on the line. By 1890 the southbound platform had become an island platform allowing departures to north and south from the east face of the platform. The original northbound platform was rather short. There was a small goods yard on either side of the line and Poulton Junction to the north where the line to Blackpool North struck west and left the original ...

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Blackpool Branch (Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour)






The former station at Thornton Cleveleys, looking north towards Fleetwood on 19th March 2018. The station is in the care and maintenance of the ...
John McIntyre 19/03/2018
The view towards Burn Naze and Fleetwood from Hillylaid Crossing in Thornton-Cleveleys. A few years ago the tracks at this point were covered in ...
Mark Bartlett 28/04/2018
Originally a full vehicle crossing, but for many years restricted to pedestrians only, this is New Road on the mothballed Fleetwood Branch just south ...
Mark Bartlett 10/06/2009
Perchance it is not dead but only sleeping, which was originally said about the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway closure but might equally apply ...
Mark Bartlett 10/06/2009
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The Poulton & Wyre Railway Society have been granted permission to access the trackbed between Poulton and Burn Naze for weed clearing and ...
Mark Bartlett 28/04/2018
End of the line. The disused former Fleetwood line peters out about one mile north of Burn Naze and this view towards Wyre Dock and Fleetwood ...
Mark Bartlett 17/02/2009
Closed station on a mothballed railway. Burn Naze lies entirely inside a secure industrial estate. It opened late, in 1908, closing with the line in ...
Mark Bartlett 09/09/2008
View south from the end of the rails on the former Fleetwood line towards Burn Naze, where the industrial complex that kept the southern section of ...
Mark Bartlett 17/02/2009
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This terminus was part of a greater plan to develop a railway served port, a resort, and reclaim land. The port was intended to be used for steamers to Cumbria, the Isle of Man and Ireland.
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Transport Trust plaque affixed to the North Euston Hotel, close to the Fleetwood Ferry tram stop and the site of the long closed railway station.
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Bruce McCartney 26/10/2019
The view north eastwards towards Fleetwood Ferry and the old Fleetwood station site in August 2012. See image 59683, a map from a century earlier. ...
Mike Burke 28/08/2012
A late evening view of Fleetwood, across the Wyre Estuary from the Knott End slipway on 21st June 2020. From left to right are the lighthouse in ...
Mark Bartlett 21/06/2020
The North Euston Hotel opened to guests in 1841 and a Transport Trust plaque by the entrance marks the period when it was a stop off point on the ...
Mark Bartlett 01/10/2019
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Maudlands Curve

A Virgin Pendolino accelerates northwards having just passed Fylde Junction in Preston on 1st November 2016. The buildings on the left are part of St ...
Mark Bartlett 01/11/2016
The lines around Preston were closed on 18th and 19th February 2023 for major pointwork replacement. The sidings at Fylde Junction would usually be ...
Mark Bartlett 18/02/2023
Northern Sprinter 150110 swings west at Fylde Junction with a Hazel Grove to Blackpool North stopping service on 19th May 2016. The Lancaster lines ...
Mark Bartlett 19/05/2016
Christmas Day 2020 sees three different types of EMU stabled outside Preston Power Signal Box for the two day break in rail services. Three TPE 397s ...
Mark Bartlett 25/12/2020
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This shed was located north of Preston station and west of Fylde Junction. The site is now the power signal box and some sidings.
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The name is assumed. At this junction the Preston and Wyre Railway Dock and Harbour's approach to its Preston terminus (Maudlands [P&WR] , opened 1840) was met by a curve of 1844 which gave it access to Preston via what is now named Fylde Junction.
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