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Yeadon Way, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6BF

Esso, Blackpool. This photograph is part of a series taken in homage to the American artist Ed Ruscha's 1963 publication of 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations'. More properly known as filling stations in the UK, I am attempting to photograph as many as possible to mark the sixty year anniversary.

Believed to be the site of the former Blackpool South Shore railway station, opened in 1863 by the Blackpool and Lytham Railway, closed in 1916 as it had been superseded by Blackpool South station (platforms visible in distance, and called Waterloo Road until 1932). View north from Lytham Road bridge towards former Blackpool Central station.

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.

The site of the LNWR Waterloo Road station platforms.

Towards the back is a multi-use games area or MUGA. The boundary beyond, in shadow, is Yeadon Way on its embankment – the line of a former railway. "Yeadon Way is the main access into Blackpool for tourists. It is a converted railway linking the M55 (via a short stretch of A5230) to car parks near the beach. As a railway conversion it bridges over several roads without junctions." (See Image ). "The railway conversion continues as Seasiders Way, though mostly at-grade, linking to more car parks. It is named after Harry Yeadon, a prominent civil engineer for Lancashire. Yeadon worked on the Preston Bypass and many other early motorways and then succeeded Sir James Drake as County Surveyor and Bridgemaster. As a retirement gift, his colleagues named this road, the only one under-construction at the time, after him." Thanks to Gerald England for directing me to the Sabre website for the above information http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Yeadon_Way

Once the site of extensive railway infrastructure. Now reduced to a single line and a single face platform.

An Aldi supermarket is on the left. Image

Formerly the Palatine Community Sports College, the school was becamean academy in December 2013.