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Blackburn LNWR Parcels Office circa 1922
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Ex LNER Class A4 Loco No. 60009, Union of South Africa, pauses at Blackburn on 17th December 1994, during the steam leg of the Northampton to Carlisle “Cumbrian Mountain Express"
Photo: J. Matthews
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Class 142, 142054, stands in Platform 1 with a Colne service circa 1997. Note the L&Y Platform Clock featured at the top of this page.
Photo: B. Haworth
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Platforms 2 & 4 before demolition
Photo: B. Haworth
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Blackburn West End - 150 150 forming a departing Clitheroe to Manchester train one Saturday in March 1999
Photo: E. Buckley
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60103, Flying Scotsman, heads north through an almost deserted Blackburn Station on an October Saturday in 2002. This was the only train to pass through Blackburn that day, as both Arriva and FNW staff were on strike.
Photo: E. Buckley |
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View of Blackburn Station before demolition taken from Ciceley Lane Bridge
Photo: B. Haworth
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Blackburn undergoing reconstruction - 3rd March 2001
Photo: E. Buckley |
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Blackburn Platform One - July 2001
Photo: N.Kirby
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View of Blackburn Station from the Guard’s cab on a Santa Special
Photo: B. Haworth |
On 2 Feb 2003, guardless 1S62, Virgin XC Birmingham New St - Edinburgh, waits in Platform 2. whilst 156452 waits in bay Platform 3 with a shuttle service to Bolton, and Plasser & Theurer tamper, Europa, rests in the siding alongside the former transit shed.
Photo: W. Briggs |
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West Yorkshire PTE Metro liveried 158907 approaches Blackburn's Platform 4 with the 12:36 to Blackpool North on 13th May 2003
Photo: C. Carr
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This photograph clearly illustrates the problems currently encountered by passengers using Platform 4, a far cry from the days when a heated refreshment room was available both on this platform and platform 2. Not shown however are two "bus shelters".
Photo: Anonymous |
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Daisyfield Junction - the point of divergence of the Ribble Valley and the East Lancs Lines.
The Great Harwood - Padiham Loop to Rose Grove diverged at a point shortly after the railway bridge in the background.
As viewed in the RVR Cab Ride film "To Hellifield and Back"
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Daisyfield Level Crossing and the remains of Daisyfield Station closed 3 November 1958
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