IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Greenfield Drive, PRESTON, PR5 5JL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Greenfield Drive, PR5 5JL by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (20 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
West Coast Main Line south of Preston
Viewed from a train on the Preston-Blackburn line that crosses the main line.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 24 Mar 2018
0.08 miles
3
Converging railway lines, Lostock Hall
Looking north from the bridge on Coote Lane.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 25 Oct 2018
0.11 miles
5
Up express at Farington
View northward, towards Preston; West Coast Main Line, ex-Lancashire Union Railway (London & North Western & Lancashire & Yorkshire Joint) section, Euxton Junction - Preston. On Summer Saturdays this section was immensely busy, with Blackpool traffic interspersed with the WCML trains: on this afternoon, 82 trains (75 expresses) passed on the main lines in 185 minutes, i.e. one every 2¼ minutes. Here on the Up Fast, Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44971 (built 5/46, withdrawn at the End of Steam, 8/68) heads the 15.40 Blackpool North to Walsall and Birmingham.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 Aug 1959
0.12 miles
6
Railway towards Preston
Looking north from the bridge on Coote Lane.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 25 Oct 2018
0.12 miles
7
Tardy Gate Manufacturing Company, Lostock Hall
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 14 Sep 2008
0.12 miles
8
Edinburgh - Manchester express passing Farington
View northward, towards Preston etc.: WCML. The 11.10 Saturdays Only Edinburgh Princes Street - Manchester Victoria, after shedding its Liverpool coaches at Preston continues via Euxton Junction and Bolton, headed by Stanier 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45701 'Conqueror' (built 4/36, withdrawn 2/63). (See other trains at this busy spot Image] etc.).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 Aug 1959
0.13 miles
9
Railway heading south
West Coast Main Line towards Wigan.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 7 Nov 2012
0.13 miles
10
Workington - London express at Farington
View northward, towards Preston and the North: ex-Lancashire Union (LNW & L&Y Joint) section of the WCML. The 10.53 from Workington via Barrow should reach Euston at 19.30, here headed by Stanier 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45586 'Mysore' (built 11/34, withdrawn 1/65). The bridge above the train carries the ex-L&Y (East Lancashire) Lostock Hall loop line. Farington station was closed not long after, on 7/3/60. (See also Image] and Image]).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 Aug 1959
0.13 miles