Date: 01/09/2011

It was named and shamed on a list of Lancashire grot spots last year. Now this neglected corner of Lostock Hall looks set to flourish again, with plans to transform it into a nature area and peace garden. South Ribble Council has lodged the master plan to redevelop the old Lostock Hall Engine Sheds site off Watkin Lane, which has lain derelict for decades. [From Mark Bartlett]

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A York - Blackpool service passes the site of the former Lostock Hall station on 3 August 2011. In the wasteland to the left stood Lostock Hall shed. Some clues still remain from the concrete between each road and even the odd bit of rail in the long grass. The photograph was taken from Watkin Lane looking west, with the present day Lostock Hall station behind the camera.
Location: Lostock Hall
Company: Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway (East Lancashire Railway)
03/08/2011 John McIntyre

A view of Lostock Hall at the end of steam working. All the steam locos visible are LMS 5MT 4-6-0s, those on the far right being on the scrap line. Two Class 25 Type 2 and a Brush Class 47 are also visible as is one of the four Yorkshire Engine Co 0-4-0DH Class 02 shunters (D2861/2/3/8) that replaced the Kitson LMS 0F 0-4-0STs [see image 31189] on local shunting duties and worked from here until 1970.
Location: Lostock Hall
Company: Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway (East Lancashire Railway)
02/08/1968 David Hindle

Front ends. Black 5s on shed at Lostock Hall in 1966.
Location: Lostock Hall
Company: Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway (East Lancashire Railway)
//1966 Jim Peebles