Blackpool South railway station
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The photograph on this page of Blackpool South railway station by Roger W Haworth as part of the Geograph project.
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Blackpool South railway station
Image: © Roger W Haworth Taken: 24 Dec 2005
If the cars in this picture carry on forward through the roundabout, the road, Yeadon Way curves off to the left and goes up on to former railway embankment of the direct line from here to Kirkham. On the right in front of the hoardings is one of the former curved platforms of Blackpool South station. The one platform which remains in use is behind the hoarding. Now try and imagine this scene on a summer Sunday afternoon between the wars. A dozen or more excursion trains which brought day trippers here in the morning are sitting in the sidings, gently steaming, waiting to take the trippers back in the evening to various Lancashire mill towns.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.796824
Longitude
-3.047494