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Kirkham And Wesham
All photographs of this location in date order.
![A sparkling 47429 seen nearing Kirkham with a train from Euston on 24th July 1982. Despite appearances the former D1541 was withdrawn less than five years later and cut up by a contractor at Crewe in 1989. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/07/1982]](/images/59000/59495.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A Summer Saturday train from Blackpool seen between Kirkham & Wesham and Salwick stations behind Brush Type 2 31293 on 7th August 1982. The former D5826 was built in 1961 and would last in service until 1990 before being scrapped at Stratford in 1994. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 07/08/1982]](/images/60000/60619.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![The now preserved Brechin Railway Class 25 25072 heads for Blackpool North between Salwick and Kirkham on a sweltering Bank Holiday Saturday in 1982. At that time Blackpool bound loco hauled (25, 31, 37, 40, 46, 47) trains were still common on Summer Saturdays but alas no more. [see image 12351] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/1982]](/images/19000/19198.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Blackpool Bank Holiday traffic between Salwick and Kirkham with 40097 westbound on a passenger train on a very hot August day. 40097 was withdrawn in June the following year and cut up at Doncaster by March 1984. Map ref SD 448324 - Salwick station can just be seen in the distance.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/1982]](/images/20000/20389.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![40084, returning from Blackpool North between Kirkham and Salwick with yet another long Saturdays Only train on the busy August Bank Holiday weekend of 1982. This was the last summer of passenger working for 40084 as it was withdrawn the following May and cut up at Crewe a year later. Map Ref SD 446325 <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/1982]](/images/20000/20392.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Mixed DMU working a Blackpool (August Bank Holiday weekend) service in 1982. The seven coach train comprises a Class 105 Cravens, A Swindon Class 120 3-car and a Derby Class 108. Although I had gone to this spot to photograph the loco hauled Saturday extras I'm glad I also captured this unusual formation for posterity. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/1982]](/images/24000/24710.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![It's Summer Bank Holiday 1982 and a Saturdays only train from Blackpool North heads east at Kirkham behind now preserved EE Type 3 no 37215. [See image 29976].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/1982]](/images/29000/29977.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Sporting the locomotive equivalent of a <I>black eye,</I> EE Class 40 no 40133, of the split headcode variety, has the throttle wide open as it leaves Kirkham. The train, heading back towards Preston from Blackpool North, is a summer Saturday extra service on the August Bank Holiday weekend 1982. The scrubland to the right of the picture marks the path of the former slow lines.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/1982]](/images/30000/30352.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A Blackpool (Bank Holiday) Saturday extra returns from the resort in the summer of 1982. 40197 and its seven coaches are heading east between Kirkham and Salwick stations. The Class 40 had another year to go in service before withdrawal from Crewe in September 1983 followed by cutting up at Doncaster eight months later.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/1982]](/images/35000/35429.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Memories of another long hot summer. 40097 is eastbound from Blackpool North on 28 August 1982 with a returning Summer Saturdays only train that has just passed through Kirkham and Wesham. [See image 20389] showing the locomotive heading for Blackpool earlier in the day. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/1982]](/images/43000/43789.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A <I>Peak</I> hauled Summer Saturday train returns from Blackpool North, with Class 46 No. 46039, along the former four track section east of Kirkham. Although the Blackpool line is still busy today these lengthy trains of holiday makers are long gone. 46039 itself had only three months of service left before withdrawal and was cut up at Swindon in 1985. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/07/1983]](/images/23000/23560.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Westbound 150144 calls at Kirkham & Wesham in August 1994 on a Blackpool to Buxton service. Twenty three years later this Sprinter unit is still a regular visitor to the Blackpool lines on Northern services.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1994]](/images/59000/59692.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![The feather on the green signal indicates that 156473 is heading for Blackpool South at Kirkham North Junction, which lies just beyond the overbridge. The unit has just called at Kirkham and Wesham and the fast Blackpool lines that bypass the platforms can be seen on the far right. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/04/2008]](/images/18000/18921.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A Buxton to Blackpool North service, formed of 156426, departs from Kirkham and Wesham. View of the down slow line towards Kirkham North Junction and Blackpool. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/04/2008]](/images/18000/18922.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![The <I>12 mile siding</I> that is the Blackpool South branch operates pretty much at capacity for most of the day. 150224 has just left the branch, which starts by the bridge, and the signal for the next service has already cleared. The train is about to call at Kirkham & Wesham on its way to Preston and Colne.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/10/2008]](/images/21000/21247.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Low winter sun as a Blackpool to Manchester Airport service takes the Up Fast line through Kirkham and Wesham. 185129 is passing the site of Kirkham station signal box, which is the reason for the fast line deviation. The four lines become two again just round the corner. View east towards Salwick.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/01/2009]](/images/22000/22043.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![With around 80 trains in each direction every day (Monday to Saturday) there is always something happening at Kirkham and Wesham. The four tracks that run from east of the station to beyond Kirkham North Junction also give a very flexible operating layout. In this view, towards Salwick from the overbridge, 156441 on the Up Slow calls at the station with the fast lines visible in the foreground.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/01/2009]](/images/22000/22070.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Although the Transpennine Services do not stop at Kirkham, 185140 was routed through the platform road on this Manchester Airport to Blackpool North train. This view, from the overbridge outside the station entrance, is towards Kirkham North Junction with the fast lines on the right of the picture.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/01/2009]](/images/22000/22232.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Leaving Kirkham for Preston on the former four track section is a Northern Pacer, 142047, on a Blackpool South to Colne working. In this view from Carr Lane bridge Kirkham and Wesham station is hidden by the trees directly behind the train, which is just passing the Boys' Brigade camp site. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 07/04/2009]](/images/23000/23164.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![6233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I>, in gleaming LMS black livery, heads for Blackpool North with an excursion from Derby and Crewe. The loco is seen here accelerating its twelve coaches along the avoiding lines at Kirkham as seen from the station's island platform.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/06/2010]](/images/29000/29245.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Double Donkeys call at Kirkham & Wesham on their way west to <br>
Blackpool North (a few hundred yards from the beach!) on 9 March 2011. Unit 142007 is on the front and 142028 on the rear, the destination board on the latter still showing Manchester Victoria. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/03/2011]](/images/33000/33236.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Arriving at Kirkham & Wesham is 150150 on its way from Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria on 9 March 2011. The station building is receiving some refurbishment at present and temporary steps (under the white sheeting) have been installed while work is carried out on the normal stairway leading from the ticket office. The tracks on the right are the fast lines that bypass the station.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/03/2011]](/images/33000/33247.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Although their stay with 'Northern' was extended until May 2011 the three Adelante units are due to go to 'East Coast' with the summer timetable change. Manchester - Blackpool passengers will miss these 5-car express units and are unlikely to view cascaded London Midland 150 sets as an improvement. Roll on electrification. 180106 pulls away from a stop at Kirkham on 13 May heading for Blackpool.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/05/2011]](/images/34000/34088.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A Class 156/142 double act heads west from the station stop at Kirkham and Wesham en-route to Blackpool North on 14 January 2012. The train is about to cross Kirkham North Jct where the line to Blackpool South diverges and, once upon a time, the direct line to Blackpool Central.<br><br>[John McIntyre 14/01/2012]](/images/37000/37239.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Peeping under the road bridge carrying the A583 to Blackpool, a Class 142 has just left the junction at Kirkham as it heads to Blackpool South on 2 February 2015. In the background the Bowland fells have a light covering of snow. [Ref query 6878]<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/02/2013]](/images/50000/50293.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![185112 heads west from Kirkham on 27 July 2013 on its way from Manchester Airport to Blackpool North. In the background 185117 on the reverse service has just crossed from the through line in order to call at Kirkham and Wesham station. Above the nearer 185 is a surviving abuttment of the flyover that once carried the line from Blackpool Central. Beyond that Kirkham signal box can just be seen.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/07/2013]](/images/43000/43976.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Northern 156464 on a Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service heads east towards Kirkham on 27 July. In the left background is the hazy outline of Blackpool Tower, which overlooks the site of the former Blackpool Central station. The direct line to Central was on the left here and ran through the hillside in front of the tower in a cutting. In the undergrowth on the left rails from the former engineers tip still survive.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/07/2013]](/images/44000/44011.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Bridge work is taking place along the Preston to Blackpool line ahead of electrification. The deck of the bridge at Kirkham station has been raised recently - seen here with 158860 passing beneath. The <I>Movember embellished</I> unit is on a Burnley Manchester Rd to Blackpool working, York services being operated in two halves between November and March due to the rebuilding of Holme Tunnel (See recent news item).<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/11/2013]](/images/45000/45336.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![In preparation for electrification to Blackpool North, various overbridges along the route are being raised. These include the bridge at Kirkham, seen here on 2 February 2015 as a Northern service to Blackpool North arrives at the platform.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/02/2015]](/images/50000/50255.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A York - Blackpool North service has just passed through Kirkham station non-stop as it heads west on 2 February 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/02/2015]](/images/50000/50353.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Northern 158901, originally a dedicated WYPTE unit, takes the sweeping curve of the Up Fast line through Kirkham station with a Blackpool to York service on 14th March 2016. The wide space between the tracks originally accommodated the station signal box and may have been intended for an additional but never built island platform. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/03/2016]](/images/54000/54849.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![One of the few through services during the week from Blackpool to Liverpool departs from Kirkham and Wesham on the evening of 20 July 2016.<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/07/2016]](/images/56000/56587.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A Blackpool North to Manchester Airport service approaches Kirkham and Wesham on 31 May 2017. The Up and Down Fast lines to the left have been lifted in preparation for a new third platform being built. This is part of the electrification works that are underway between Preston and Blackpool.<br><br>[John McIntyre 31/05/2017]](/images/59000/59456.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Transformation at Kirkham. All traffic is presently concentrated on the two platform lines as the fast lines were recently lifted. A third platform is planned here as part of the electrification work. 150150 calls on a Blackpool North to Manchester service on 16th June 2017. [See image 22070] for an earlier view from the same vantage point.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/06/2017]](/images/59000/59693.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A four car Pacer train slows for the Kirkham stop with a Blackpool North to Hazel Grove service on 16th June 2017. Alongside the surviving running lines work is taking place on the site of the recently lifted fast lines in connection with electrification and Kirkham's new third platform. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/06/2017]](/images/59000/59807.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A Blackpool to Huddersfield service arrives at Kirkham and Wesham on 05 July 2017. On the right the former fast lines have been removed and the formation levelled. A new third platform is due to be built on this area in connection with the electrification of the line from Preston to Blackpool North.<br><br>[John McIntyre 05/07/2017]](/images/60000/60064.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Looking east from the road bridge at Kirkham and Wesham on 27 October 2017. The former fast lines have gone and work is progressing to create a third platform linked to the existing island platform by footbridge with lifts to provide step free access. For a similar view before this work started [see image 22043] <br><br>[John McIntyre 27/10/2017]](/images/61000/61425.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A Northern Class 150 and Class 156 on a Blackpool to Huddersfield service pass the biscuit factory (right) in Kirkham on 27 October 2017.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/10/2017]](/images/61000/61603.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A Northern Class 142 has just departed from Kirkham and Wesham station (behind the photographer) with a service to Blackpool South and will turn south at Kirkham North Jct a short distance away. On the right a TPE Class 185 (on contract to Northern) is on a Blackpool North to Manchester Airport service.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/10/2017]](/images/61000/61677.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![The new third platform taking shape at Kirkham on 21st November 2017. This station will reopen at the end of January 2018, but only for trains to Blackpool South until the rest of the Fylde lines electrification project is complete. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/11/2017]](/images/61000/61833.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Site update Kirkham and Wesham 09 December 2017 - Work has started on the renewal of the platform walls on the original island platform while the wall has appeared for the new platform 3. The track has now been positioned through platform 3 as well.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/12/2017]](/images/62000/62069.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Still plenty of work to do at Kirkham before it reopens for Blackpool South trains on 28th January 2018. This was the view on Christmas Day 2017 showing work in progress on the island platform and the new third platform being constructed beyond. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/12/2017]](/images/62000/62262.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![The footbridge for the new third platform at Kirkham being installed, with the help of a huge Ainscough crane, on 18th January 2018. The main bridge span was installed that same evening but the station is scheduled to reopen for Blackpool South line services on 29th January 2018 so there is still plenty for the <I>Orange Army</I> to do. [See image 59693] taken six months earlier showing the transformation of this location. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/01/2018]](/images/62000/62548.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![A German registered lorry passes through Platform 1 at Kirkham on 18th January 2018 as round-the-clock work continues to get the station ready for reopening on 29th January. When complete Platform 1 will be used solely by trains heading for the Blackpool South branch and will not be electrified. Platform 2 will usually be used by trains heading towards Blackpool North, but occasional trains coming off the Blackpool South branch will be able to reverse there. The new Platform 3, under construction, will be for all trains heading towards Preston. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/01/2018]](/images/62000/62549.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![With one week to go the footbridge is now installed at Kirkham and the new third platform is being surfaced. [See image 62548] taken less than a week earlier. No doubt the new lifts will be a later addition to the facilities. As from Monday 29th January there will be an hourly service between Preston and Blackpool South calling here with full resumption of services in time for Easter 2018. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/01/2018]](/images/62000/62596.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Second day of operations from the new third platform at Kirkham following reopening to Blackpool South services. A Pacer/Sprinter combination calls on 30th January 2018 with an eastbound service. The new footbridge is available to passengers although the lifts have not yet been installed. There is further work to be done on the new platform and of course the masts and wires have to be erected before Easter. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/01/2018]](/images/62000/62689.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![The view east from the original island platform at Kirkham on 30th January 2018. Work is still in progress but services to Blackpool South had resumed the previous day. A Pacer/Sprinter combination arrives from Preston in the branch platform. The Down Blackpool North line is on the left along with the new Up line.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/01/2018]](/images/62000/62719.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Dusk at Kirkham as 150140 and a Pacer prepare to leave Platform 1 for Blackpool South on 14th February 2018. Building work is continuing at the station but the platforms are looking tidier now. [See image 62549] from one month earlier. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/02/2018]](/images/62000/62869.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![Still some work to do at Kirkham station to complete the passenger lifts but all the overhead wiring was in place on 12th April 2018.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/04/2018]](/images/63000/63589.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
![All overhead catenary in place on the Blackpool North lines at Kirkham on 12th April 2018 as a service from Blackpool South to Preston passes. The Down Blackpool South line is not being wired but has been resignalled. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/04/2018]](/images/63000/63590.jpg "Kirkham and Wesham")
