Return holiday express at Farington
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Return holiday express at Farington
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 1 Aug 1959
View northward, towards Preston; West Coast Main Line, combined with ex-North Union (London & North Western and Lancashire & Yorkshire Joint line, Euxton Junction - Preston - Blackpool/Fleetwood). The train (of LNER coaches) is the 15.30 Summer Saturdays Blackpool North to Cleethorpes, which will go by a tortuous route, turning off at Euxton Junction and going via the Whelley Loop round Wigan, through to Manchester Victoria, then Miles Platting and Midland Junction onto the ex-Great Central Woodhead route for its first stop at Penistone, then via Barnsley to Doncaster and eventually to Cleethorpes! The locomotive is Hughes/Fowler Class 5P4F 2-6-0 No. 42707 (built 1927 as No. 13007, withdrawn 9/64), which will hand over to a Eastern engine at Midland Junction (Manchester). Farington Station was closed a few months later. The bridge in the background carried the Liverpool - Blackburn direct route.
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Image Location
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