IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Lockside Road, PRESTON, PR2 2EF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Lockside Road, PR2 2EF by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (55 Images Found)
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Bitumen Tankers at Preston Riverside
Bitumen tankers standing at Lanfina Siding which is adjacent to Lockside Road near The Ribble Steam Railway's Preston Riverside Station.
The railway lines around Preston Dock largely fell into disuse after the closure of the docks in 1981. The Dock Branch, however, was retained to allow a limited service for bitumen and tar rail traffic, diesel hauled down the branch, which continued until 1995.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190225223633/https://ribblesteam.org.uk/news/ribble-steam-railway-and-preston-docks/ Ribble Steam Railway (archived Feb 2019).
After the line had been taken over by the Ribble Steam Railway to run as a heritage railway, the running of the bitumen trains to the Total Fina Elf plant adjacent to the Riversway site was resumed in 2004. These trains are loaded at Lindsay Oil Refinery on the East Coast and travel overnight to Preston via Hebden Bridge three times each week. The train is delivered by main line diesel loco to the Dock Railway sidings, from where the Ribble Rail Sentinel diesel locos shunt the tankers into the Total Fina Elf plant for discharge, processing, and onward distribution by road.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 22 Apr 2019
0.03 miles
2
Bull Nose, River Ribble
View of boats leaving the Bull Nose as they exit Preston Marina in their rush to use the Millennium Ribble Link to get back into the Lancaster Canal
Image: © Rude Health
Taken: 23 Jul 2012
0.03 miles
5
Entrance to Preston Marina
Entrance viewed from the Ribble Way path on south side of the river.
Image: © Tony Mercer
Taken: 8 Apr 2010
0.05 miles
6
Preston Marina's lock gates
These outer gates are higher than the gates behind it and were constructed in the 1980s as part of flood defence improvements.
Image: © K A
Taken: 7 Feb 2010
0.05 miles
7
The entrance to Preston Marina
The former dock. Preston city centre is visible beyond.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 18 Apr 2012
0.05 miles
8
Bull Nose View
Viewed from the Ribble Way on the Penwortham side of the river.
Image: © Mary and Angus Hogg
Taken: 18 Feb 2019
0.05 miles
9
Ribble Steam Railway: Water Tower at Preston Riverside Station
The Ribble Steam Railway is a standard gauge preserved railway running along part of the former Preston Docks railway line. It was opened to the public on 17 September 2005. The railway began by housing much of the collection from the previously closed Southport Railway Museum (Steamport), which was based in the old Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway engine shed at Southport (BR shed code 27C).
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 22 Apr 2019
0.07 miles
10
The River Ribble from the 'Bull Nose'
The River Ribble (tidal at this point) flows out of Preston into the picture from the left, and out of the centre of the picture towards Lytham and the sea.
To the right of the picture is the man-made entrance to Preston Marina and Docks (SD 5129) which is controlled by sea gates.
Image: © Martin Stockdale
Taken: 21 May 2005
0.07 miles