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The Lancaster Canal, looking north.
©David Medcalf
View SW, towards Lancaster, Preston and the South; ex-London & North Western West Coast Main Line. The train is on the Down Goods line and is headed by LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44300, which is carrying the prominent yellow stripes on the cabsides that all steam locomotives had to bear when working on the Western Division once main-line electrification began.
©Ben Brooksbank
No. 4472, probably the most famous of all preserved locomotives, at the Steamtown museum (which operated 1968-1997). The tower in this photograph is the ash handling plant of the kind installed in the 1930s and 1940s at a number of LMS (later British Rail Midland region) railway depots to facilitate the loading of the piles of ash and clinker raked and shovelled from every locomotive firebox by its fireman at the end of a shift.
©Stephen Craven
Partially obscured by trees and overhead lines. The train has stopped to take water whilst heading north, double headed by Stanier Black 5's 44871 and 45407. In the background are the sidings and workshops of West Coast Railways.
©Ian Taylor
Looking southwards along the main line, 'Steamtown' is visible on the right, but please note, there is now no public access to this - it is purely a commercial depot now.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Looking towards Lancaster. The West Coast Main Line is on the left. The tracks in the foreground go to Barrow-in-Furness and Leeds. In the distance a steam train has stopped in one of the passing loops to take water. See [[2782378]]. On the right are the sidings and workshops of West Coast Railways.
©Ian Taylor
Dist:0.1km<br/>View across to the main railway line at Carnforth from the turntable in the steam centre.
©John Firth
Dist:0.1km<br/>This view of the former Southern Region Boat Train Coach No. 3065 was taken at Carnforth on the 24th August 1999, whilst the coach was undergoing refurbishment, with the view of running on the main-line. However, this did not materialise and the coach was subsequently sold to "The Hound Inn" at Arlecdon, Cumbria, where the coach remains to this day in use as a restaurant.[[637675]]
©Clive Warneford
Dist:0.1km<br/>Carnforth Station platform, the clock and subway that appeared in the film 'Brief Encounter', filmed here in 1945. (Note the date submitted!)
©Margaret Clough
Dist:0.1km<br/>Famous as the main setting for the film Brief Encounter
©Dave Dunford
Dist:0.2km<br/>Carnforth Coaling Tower in 1999. Long time out of use, structurally unsound, was built with concrete.
©Clive Warneford
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking south west from Warton Road Bridge
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.2km<br/>42085 stands beside the water tower at the end of steam days.
©Roger Cornfoot
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©Peter Bond
Dist:0.2km<br/>Near the Station and including the Post Office
©Alan Longbottom

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