Up express at Farington
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Up express at Farington
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 1 Aug 1959
View northward, towards Preston; West Coast Main Line, ex-Lancashire Union Railway (London & North Western & Lancashire & Yorkshire Joint) section, Euxton Junction - Preston. On Summer Saturdays this section was immensely busy, with Blackpool traffic interspersed with the WCML trains: on this afternoon, 82 trains (75 expresses) passed on the main lines in 185 minutes, i.e. one every 2¼ minutes. Here on the Up Fast, Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44971 (built 5/46, withdrawn at the End of Steam, 8/68) heads the 15.40 Blackpool North to Walsall and Birmingham.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.722788
Longitude
-2.698144