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The Blackpool branch lines are two railway lines running from the West Coast Main Line at Preston to Blackpool. The main branch, which is double-tracked and electrified , runs to Blackpool North station via Poulton-le-Fylde .
The line is still extant (albeit overgrown and disused), but the junction with the Blackpool line west of the station was removed in April 2017 in preparation for electrification of the route. [6] Since June 2006, there have been plans by Poulton & Wyre Railway Society to restore (and preserve) the passenger rail link towards Fleetwood via ...
When the Blackpool branch was opened in 1846, it left the Fleetwood line by a sharp curve, and there was a west curve, enabling Blackpool to Fleetwood direct running. [ note 4 ] [ 34 ] The alignment was obviously unsatisfactory, and on 28 March 1896, a new loop line by-passing Poulton by a loop was opened, enabling a station better located for ...
It is the terminus of the main Blackpool branch line and is 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (28 km) northwest of Preston. It also has an adjacent tram stop on the Blackpool Tramway . The station was opened in its present form in 1974, and succeeded a previous station a few hundred yards (metres) away on Talbot Road which had first opened in 1846 and had ...
Trains from Preston to Colne usually begin at Blackpool South, on the Blackpool branch line, which makes the whole length of the line a total of 50 miles (80 km). Services via the Roses line routing encompass the Calder Valley line semi-fast trains from Blackpool North stopping at Preston, Blackburn, Accrington and Burnley Manchester Road ...
The station opened on 6 April 1863 as "Hounds Hill" and was renamed "Blackpool Central" in 1878. [2] Initially, it was a relatively small town centre terminus for an isolated line running along the south Fylde coast from Lytham. In 1874 this line was connected to another branch from Lytham to Kirkham, allowing through trains from Preston and
The station from Station Road level crossing in 2024, at which point its upkeep was in a period of inactivity. Today, the majority of the buildings at the station have long since been demolished, but the platforms remain, along with one of the original walls used to support the station's canopy and the bases for the waiting rooms on the up platform.
Blackpool South signalbox, 1973 Blackpool South station in 1983, showing the former size of the station. At this point only the platform to the far left was in use. The station was originally called Waterloo Road when it opened in 1903, at the junction with a newly built express Marton Line direct from Kirkham.