Also in the Park Hotel opened which was a magnificent Gothic style building overlooking the ornamental Miller Park and the Ribble Valley and with close access to the station. This became a Local Government building, in the 's a 'modern' box mini tower type building was built next to it to accommodate the administrators.
The expresses between London and Glasgow stop in Preston and the passengers can use the fine restaurant facility. Photo of the bridge supports in the River Ribble that once was the Preston to Southport line with a station at the bottom of Fishergate Hill. The railways were largely built by the end of the 19th Century. In the first half of the century traffic through Preston increased especially in summer. Blackpool attracted specials from all over the country.
Locomotives from all the regions, except the Southern, ventured North to Blackpool. The Glasgow trains had a special link that took them through Preston, south for 3 miles to Farington then round through Lostock Hall and Preston Junction Todd Lane Junction before passing through Preston again and straight through to Blackpool, without reversing.
Whole families and whole streets worked in the railways. Looking up my own family they once lived in Moss Street in Lostock Hall, around , and looking at an old census page the occupation of almost everyone in that street was on the railways. The railways brought in people from all over the country, the places of birth of many in Moss Street was in other places on the line, such as Leeds and Liverpool.
My great grandfather had 4 sons and everyone of them was a railway worker including many of their sons and daughters.
My own grandfather was a driver at Lostock Hall sheds and used to go to Leeds, Liverpool and Blackpool, sometimes staying overnight, driving a 'black 5' or a tanker. He'd tell me he could recognise a loco by its sound which was impressive and if he was wrong it seemed to me that the loco was off-sound that day, he could recognise 'flats' in the wheels and track abnormalities. There had been constant amalgamation and take over of railway companies. Each claiming to be the best with the fastest most powerful locomotives.
From a Preston viewpoint the Stanier Pacifics were the best pulling the Royal Scot, Mid-day Scot and Caledonian titled expresses passing through north and south bound each day. There was also the Royal Mail Train which had a film made which started with a well known poem by W. Auden, Night Mail.
Read it here. In the private rail companies were nationalised to form British Rail although they kept their distinction largely due to the locomotives. Although the standard BR built steam loco's and diesels began to bring greater commonality. Photograph of my mother, next to the window, working at the railway offices in Christian Road Preston, assumed as the photo beneath it has that date on it.
Don't know who they are but my mother said she worked with William Beckett who was to become a mayor of Preston, if one of the males is him. As did the direct route to Blackpool along with Blackpool Central Station, leaving North as the main station.
Preston locomotive shed burnt down and Lostock Hall shed closed. Preston was electrified in the early 's. View later trains. Station guides Get information about your destination station. Enter a station name. Search stations.
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