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My interest in railways, and my
connection with Preston Station began in the late 1970s, and lasted
until around 1985. For those few years, I was a regular visitor to
the station, arriving by train from my home in Blackrod. Manchester
Victoria was also within easy (and more importantly, cheap) reach,
but Preston was a much more spotter-friendly station. In the
intervening years, I had the usual break from railways through my
late-teens and twenties until about 2000 when I found myself living
in Preston, with a young son to use as an excuse to reacquaint
myself with railways and Preston station...
Depsite my regular visits to Preston through
the early 1980s, I never took a single photograph there. A couple of
years ago I decided to try and plug that gap by buying photos of
that era from Ebay or wherever I could find them. Perhaps
inevitably, I ended up buying pictures from the 60s and before,
which sparked an interest in the history of the station. This
website is the result.
This page is a home for all those BR corporate
blue-era photos which didn't fit in on other pages on the site. If
you remember sitting in "Brute" cages at the end of
platform 3 or dashing between 3 and 4 as a class 81 arrived from the
north, just an 87 pulled in from the south, with a class 40
whistling away somewhere in the background....well this page is for
you!
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by Alan Robinson : |
A class 47 arrives from the south with a rake of MK1s, probably
heading for Blackpool. 29th Oct 1977. |
84003 and 85017, two of the original West Coast AC electics. |
Simultaneous arrivals from the south - a class 86 and a two DMU sets
headed by a class 108. |
My personal favourite type - an English Electric type 4 - or class
40 as I knew them. |
Simultanious arrivals, this time from the north, with class 108 and
a class 86 having just passed under Fishergate bridge. |
A class 86 heads the up Clansman in 1977 |
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by Andrew Swarbrick : |
In 1983 and 84, the ill-fated Advanced Passenger Train was running
trials up and down the West Coast Main Line. Here set 370006 is seen
leaving platform 6 and heading south. |
The APT never entered fleet service, but it did run public trial
services, where passengers were invited to sample the delights of
the world's first tilting train. Sadly the writing was already on
the wall for the APT. |
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by Carl Hodgkinson : |
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To the north
of the station, the other side of Fishergate, was Ladywell Sidings,
where many locos would usualy be stabled. The sidings were lost when
the Preston ring-road was built in the 90s, but here we see the view
from Corporation St, with three class 47s, a 25 and a BL rail-bus
all visible. |
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