Date: 16/01/2023

A Lancashire haulage firm has wound back the hands of time by reopening a 70-year-old railhead. This week, Blackpool-based Fox Group - which specialises in the supply and haulage of aggregates - began their expansion into rail with the opening of a site in Leyland, part of a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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DB 66134, still in EWS livery, rolls a Daventry to Grangemouth intermodal service along the Down Fast line at Leyland on a sunny but bitterly cold 17th March 2018.
Location: Leyland
Company: North Union Railway
17/03/2018 Mark Bartlett

One of the last freights to enter the Leyland Motors complex, a train of oil tankers, seen around 1981. The Class 47 is running round while the resident industrial Fowler diesel shunter lurks in the background. Although not used for thirty years the sidings are still in place and the Fowler was only removed a few years ago (into preservation on the proposed Poulton to Fleetwood line). View north towards Preston with the WCML to the right.
Location: Farington Junction
Company: North Union Railway
//1981 Mark Bartlett

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