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©Tudor Williams
View westward, towards Liverpool, Farington Curve Junction and Preston, with the Shed on the right, the Station being behind. LMS 3F 0-6-0T No. 47360 and (earlier, ex-Midland) No. 47211 are in the foreground, with another ex-Midland one (No. 47201) behind; No. 47360 was already withdrawn from service. Lostock Hall Depot (coded 24C) had an allocation of 40 locomotives in 1954:- 9 0-6-0, 11 2-6-4T, 2 2-4-2T, 3 0-6-0T and 15 ex-War Department 2-8-0s, and it was one of the very last depots to retain steam locomotives - until August 1968.
©Ben Brooksbank
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©Galatas
Dist:0.2km<br/>There are NUMEROUS eating outlets and takeaways in Lostock Hall .... this is just one of them - the Sunflower Chinese Takeaway, right in the centre. This was taken on my way home tonight - I just managed to get home before the heavens opened (note the very dark clouds .....)
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.4km<br/>Methodist Church on the B5254 Watkin Lane at Lostock Hall
©Roger May
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©Chris Allen
Dist:0.5km<br/>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continues via Euxton Junction and Bolton, headed by Stanier 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45701 'Conqueror' (built 4/36, withdrawn 2/63).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 [[[2061947]]] etc.).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>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via Barrow should reach Euston at 19.30, here headed by Stanier 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45586 'Mysore' (built 11/34, withdrawn 1/65).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 [[[2059928]]] and [[[2061947]]]).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>View northward, towards Preston etc. on the WCML - see [[[2738485]]] and other images here. On this exceptionally busy Summer Saturday, Control found it necessary to roster a Stanier 8F for a Relief from Blackpool to a Central Division (ex-L&Y) destination, No. 48602 (built by the SR at Eastleigh in 4/43, but employed on the LMS/BR(LMR), withdrawn in 7/67).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>This photograph was taken just five minutes after [[2059928]], from a short distance further back; it shows the overbridge carrying the former East Lancashire Lostock Hall Loop, which connected Liverpool with Blackburn avoiding Preston, but was also traversed by Blackpool - Glasgow trains that passed through Preston twice on their U-shaped route. This second express on the Up Fast was the 07.30 Aberdeen to Manchester Victoria, double-headed by Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45195 piloting 'Patriot' 4-6-0 No. 45537 'Private E. Sykes, V.C.'.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>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 heads the 15.40 Blackpool North to Walsall and Birmingham.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>View northward on the West Coast Main Line. The Class C freight is headed by Hughes/Fowler 5P4F 2-6-0 No. 42841 and is running on the Up Fast line. In 1957 Farington station was still intact. See also [[2160175]] and other photographs.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>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, 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.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>View southward, towards Euxton Junction then Wigan and the South on the WCML, and Bolton and Manchester Victoria on the L&Y main line. (See [[[2054755]]] for more detail). The 16.35 from Rochdale has come via Bolton and is headed by LMS Fowler 6'9" 3-cylinder Compound 4P 4-4-0 No. 41193 (built 1932, withdrawn 11/58).
©Ben Brooksbank

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