IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Oakwood Drive, PRESTON, PR4 3EW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Oakwood Drive, PR4 3EW 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.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (53 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
1
Oakwood Drive, Wesham
New development of 'family houses' on the south side of Derby Road.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 5 Oct 2015
0.02 miles
2
Wesham Doorstep Green
Bounded by Derby Road and Park Lane
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 5 Oct 2015
0.06 miles
3
331007 arriving at Kirkham and Wesham bound for Blackpool North
Image: © Peter Moore
Taken: 20 Oct 2022
0.06 miles
4
Waste land beside Kirkham and Wesham station
Was once the route of a station avoiding line.
Image: © John Lucas
Taken: 3 Mar 2023
0.06 miles
5
Train to Hazel Grove
The introduction of electric trains on the Preston to Blackpool line has led to some longer distance workings. Here, a fairly new 'Civity' electric unit (331019) departs from Kirkham & Wesham station with the 12.28 Blackpool North to Hazel Grove via Manchester - a journey of nearly 100km and over 100 minutes. Compare Image taken nearly sixty years earlier: although there are fewer tracks and trains, the stations has actually gained a platform for eastbound trains in recent years, allowing the two tracks of the island platform to be used independently by trains to Blackpool South and North.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 17 Nov 2021
0.07 miles
6
Kirkham & Wesham railway station, Lancashire
Opened in 1890 by the Preston & Wyre Joint Railway on its lines from Preston to Blackpool and Fleetwood, to replace an earlier station slightly further west.
View west towards Blackpool shortly after the line was electrified, and a new platform and footbridge added. The track on the right and the platform from which the image was taken are on the site of the former 'fast' lines, for which no previous platform at Kirkham & Wesham was provided. See Image for a pre-electrification view taken closer to the road bridge.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 13 Jul 2018
0.07 miles
7
Blackpool Illuminations Special at Kirkham & Wesham Station
View eastward, with a Special from Bradford (Exchange) to Blackpool (Central) passing, signalled for the Marton cut-off line. The locomotive is LMS 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45694 'Bellerophon'. At Kirkham & Wesham station, the ex-London & north Western & Lancashire & Yorkshire (Preston & Wyre) Joint four-track line from Preston divided three ways: to Blackpool Central via Lytham St Annes or by the Marton Direct line, and to Poulton-le-Fylde and Blackpool North/Fleetwood.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 8 Sep 1962
0.07 miles
8
Down Blackpool Illuminations special train passing Kirkham & Wesham Station, 1962
View eastwards, towards Preston etc. This is one of the numerous 'Illuminations Specials', in this case being made up of non-corridor stock, hauled by Hughes/Fowler 4P5F 'Crab' 2-6-0 No. 42719 (built 1927, withdrawn 2/64).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 8 Sep 1962
0.07 miles
9
Houses on Derby Road, Wesham
On the south side.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 5 Oct 2015
0.08 miles
10
A train at Kirkham & Wesham station
A class 156 unit running from Blackpool South to Preston.
Image: © John Lucas
Taken: 3 Mar 2023
0.09 miles