IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
North Union View, PRESTON, PR5 5RF
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This page details the photographs taken nearby to North Union View, PR5 5RF by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (29 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Grazing off Coote Lane
Beside the railway line from Blackburn to Preston.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 25 Oct 2018
0.09 miles
2
Coote Lane
Looking south west from the railway bridge.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 25 Oct 2018
0.09 miles
3
Railway towards Preston
The line from Blacburn curving around towards the West Coast Main Line.
Looking north from the bridge on Coote Lane.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 25 Oct 2018
0.09 miles
4
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
0.12 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 Here on the Up Fast, Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44971 (built 5/46, withdrawn at the End of Steam, 8/68) heads the 15.40 Blackpool North to Walsall and Birmingham.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
0.13 miles
6
Return holiday express at Farington
View northward, towards Preston; West Coast Main Line, combined with ex-North Union (London & North Western and Lancashire & Yorkshire Joint line, Euxton Junction - Preston - Blackpool/Fleetwood). The train (of LNER coaches) is the 15.30 Summer Saturdays Blackpool North to Cleethorpes, which will go by a tortuous route, turning off at Euxton Junction and going via the Whelley Loop round Wigan, through to Manchester Victoria, then Miles Platting and Midland Junction onto the ex-Great Central Woodhead route for its first stop at Penistone, then via Barnsley to Doncaster and eventually to Cleethorpes! The locomotive is Hughes/Fowler Class 5P4F 2-6-0 No. 42707 (built 1927 as No. 13007, withdrawn 9/64), which will hand over to a Eastern engine at Midland Junction (Manchester). Farington Station was closed a few months later. The bridge in the background carried the Liverpool - Blackburn direct route.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 Aug 1959
0.13 miles
7
Site of Farington station
This modern day freight train is passing the site of the former Farington Station (which perhaps explains the large gap between the tracks, where platforms stood).
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 30 Jul 1992
0.14 miles
8
Railway towards Preston
Looking north from the bridge on Coote Lane.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 25 Oct 2018
0.14 miles
10
Railway at Farington Moss (North)
Looking northwards from the bridge at Coote Lane.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 12 Jul 2015
0.14 miles