Ribble Branch (North Union Railway and Preston Corporation Joint)






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Always impressive to see the Lindsey bitumen tanks climbing the 1:29 gradient from the docks and emerging alongside Preston station. On 1st December ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2022
Over the top. DBS 60024 and 13 loaded bitumen tankers take the steep descent towards Preston Docks on 14 March. This view is from the south end ...
Mark Bartlett 14/03/2014
Breasting the top of the 1:29 incline of the Preston Dock branch 66182 emerges opposite the platforms of Preston station on 20 July 2011. The ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2011
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66127 accelerates the 14 bitumen empties away from Strand Road level crossing towards the 1:29 incline to the main line. The thrice weekly train from ...
Mark Bartlett 11/06/2012
66167 emerges from Fishergate Tunnel straight onto the 1:29 climb back to the main line with fourteen empty bitumen tanks from Preston Dock to Lindsey ...
Mark Bartlett 16/03/2012
Looking every inch a rural branch line this is Fishergate Hill tunnel in the heart of Preston on the branch to the dock estate. Beyond the 145yd ...
Mark Bartlett 16/08/2008
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DRS 57304 leads a Pathfinder railtour over Strand Road level crossing heading for the Ribble Steam Railway in February 2018. The tour was top and ...
John McIntyre 10/02/2018
Strand Road level crossing was completely relaid in March 2022, resulting in no rail traffic and a road closure, but hopefully ensuring the long term ...
John McIntyre 19/04/2022
The Lindsey to Preston Docks loaded bitumen tank train was significantly delayed on 11 July 2011 after 66061 failed during the journey and had to be ...
John McIntyre 11/07/2011
After a long and circuitous run from Eastleigh, with several changes of motive power (DRS 37, 88 and 68 also used on the day), the Pathfinder Tours ...
Mark Bartlett 10/02/2018
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Colas 56302 and 56049 run round the train of loaded bitumen tanks that they have brought in from Lindsey Refinery (left hand road) and wait to draw ...
John McIntyre 19/04/2022
'Courageous' almost looks like it has been posed as it runs round its passenger train in the Exchange Sidings at Preston Docks on 22nd September 2019. ...
Mark Bartlett 22/09/2019
56078 and 56113 wait for departure time at Strand Road on 10th April 2019, with the empty bitumen tanks for Lindsey near Immingham. ...
Mark Bartlett 10/04/2019
Discussion time at Strand Road on 5 November as 60040 The Territorial Army Centenary, newly arrived from Lindsey, is uncoupled from the loaded ...
Mark Bartlett 05/11/2014
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A glimpse into the cab of Sentinel 'Enterprise' as it rumbles onto the Ashton Swing Bridge taking loaded bitumen tanks towards the RSR depot and ...
Mark Bartlett 13/09/2023
Lookalike Preston Dock Tank 'Courageous' brings up the rear of an RSR Santa Special, passing the sand drag that protects the swing bridge on a misty ...
Mark Bartlett 19/12/2021
RSR Sentinel 'Enterprise' approaches the swing bridge with a short rake of bitumen tanks, heading for the unloading point in September 2023. During ...
Mark Bartlett 13/09/2023
L&YR 0-4-0ST No.19 was sold into industry in 1931 as LMS 11243 and never carried a BR number. It was a static exhibit at the Ribble Steam Railway for ...
Mark Bartlett 17/09/2022
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An operational railfreight terminal. This is the bitumen unloading siding at Preston Dock, viewed from a passing Ribble Steam Railway train. Out of ...
Mark Bartlett 06/02/2010
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Grant Ritchie 272 of 1894, an 0-4-0ST once resident in the Fife coalfield, now restored from scrapyard condition to full working order by Ribble Steam ...
Bill Roberton 22/05/2017
A recent arrival at the RSR awaits its turn in the workshops. Glenfield is a 5-ton capacity Andrew Barclay (880/1902) crane tank that spent ...
Mark Bartlett 17/04/2016
Furness Railway 0-4-0 No.20 was withdrawn from service during 2018 but there is no period of static display for the old timer. It went straight into ...
Mark Bartlett 19/08/2018
During the Ribble Steam 2016 Autumn diesel gala the resident self-propelled crane performed a couple of demonstration lifts of railway axles from a ...
Mark Bartlett 01/10/2016
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The Ribble Steam Railway have marked the 50th Anniversary of the arrival of the three Rolls-Royce Sentinels on Preston Docks by repainting ...
Mark Bartlett 19/08/2018
As part of the RSR marking the 50th Anniversary of the arrival of the Preston Dock Sentinels, resident 'Enterprise' has been repainted in original ...
Mark Bartlett 19/08/2018
2017 was the 60th anniversary of the closure of the Whittingham Hospital Railway in 1957. To mark the occasion the Ribble Steam Railway Museum had a ...
Mark Bartlett 10/12/2017
One of the interactive exhibits for younger visitors to the Ribble Steam Railway museum. This is The Right Signal game. The four different aspects of ...
Mark Bartlett 19/08/2018
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LYR Pug No 19 visiting from the East Lancashire Railway crosses the bridge at Riversway with the last train of the day on the Ribble Steam Railway. ...
Stephen Willetts 24/09/2022
Hunslet 0-6-0ST 'Brookes No.1', from the Middleton Railway, has been touring the UK in 2019. See image 70401 at Blaenavon. She was the guest loco ...
Mark Bartlett 28/09/2019
The Branch Line Society 'Ribble Lune Railtour' stands in the Ribble Steam station platform on 10th October 2010, having arrived behind 66066. 55022 ...
Mike Burke 10/10/2010
Class 14 0-6-0DH D9537 was a visitor to the Ribble Steam Railway during 2015, running at that time in the old Western Region experimental Desert Sand ...
Mark Bartlett 04/10/2015
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