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Burscough Street, ORMSKIRK, L39 2EY

Burscough Street and Burscough Road (from where this picture is taken) used to be continuous but since the opening of a trading estate (just off to the left) they have been separated by an offset roundabout which is marginally too small for articulated lorries to negotiate and an utter pain to cross on foot! Still, it looks nice in the snow.

Off Burscough Road.

Named after the Doctor who established the nearby dispensary, this Grade II listed building dates from the first half of the nineteenth century and is now lodging rooms. The small building attached to it, now a hairdressers, was formerly a chapel.

Linking Railway Approach and Station Road.

On a typically Lancastrian brick chimney beside the railway station, part of a building which is probably no longer there.

Single-track railway line from Ormskirk, looking northbound towards Preston.

Shops and offices have been built on the site shown in Image, where the Hattersley's valves factory used to be.

The kink in the single track here represents the extant line through the station (formerly southbound track) joining the extant line northwards to Preston (formerly the northbound track)

A Northern service operated by 150122 standing at Ormskirk. The line is separated between the Merseyrail network and the Ormskirk - Preston line necessitating a change of train.

The line from Liverpool to Preston was cut in two at Ormskirk at some time around 1980. South of here is electrified to Liverpool as can be seen from the third rail here. North to Preston, beyond these buffers, remains diesel-operated. The single platform (originally just for southbound trains) is thus divided into platforms 1 (Liverpool) and 2 (Preston). Compare my earlier view Image from my only other visit to the station thirty years earlier. A larger stop board has been added to the buffers for trains from Preston.