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Preston & Wyre Railway

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In the list below the information is set out in tabular form, spread over four columns. The column entries are -

RailRef The Line Code used in RailRef system.
Line Detail The principal locations included within the Line Code. They are arranged in 'down' direction order. Locations shown are primarily stations and junctions to allow easy cross check against published atlases. Signal box names appear in italics where these are 'intermediate' to stations or have been shown to facilitate links from other pages on this web site. The inclusion of a station or junction name does not imply that there was always a signal box of that same name!
SBR The section reference used in the relevant Signal Box Register published by the Society.
ELR The corresponding Engineer's Line Reference(s). This will be blank for railways that never came within British Railways terms of reference. It will also be blank where British Railways had no surviving responsibility for infrastructure at the time the ELR system came into use.

RailRef Line Detail SBR ELR
PY001
LY240
NW863
Fylde Junction, Preston - Blackpool North
datum Preston Station
0m40c Preston P&W (Fylde) Junction NW860
0m72c   Maudland Viaduct PY002
1m68c Ashton
3m05c Lea Road
3m54c Constable Lane
4m43c Salwick No.1
5m04c Salwick No.2
5m17c Salwick (1)
5m73c Spen Lane
6m76c Treales
7m35c Kirkham South Junction
7m67c Kirkham & Wesham (2nd) (2)
  Kirkham (1st)
8m29c Kirkham North Junction PY004
  Lytham Junction
9m14c Bradkirk Junction PY009
10m09c Weeton
11m05c Singleton Bank
12m32c Singleton
13m38c Todderstaffe
14m00c Poulton No.1 Junction PY012
14m21c Poulton No.2
14m31c Poulton (2nd) (3)
14m44c Poulton No.3 Junction PY020
  Poulton No.4 Junction PY013 PY021
15m44c Carleton Crossing
16m32c Bispham (4)
17m00c Blackpool North No.1
17m30c Blackpool North No.2
17m40c Blackpool North No.3
17m49c Blackpool North
(1) Salwick Road until 1842
(2) Kirkham until c1905
(3) Poulton-le-Fylde from c1960
(4) Layton from 1938

PBN: Preston & Wyre Junction - Blackpool North
BCR: Blackpool Carriage Sidings (16m69c - 17m36c)
  PBN
BCR
PY002
LY241
NW864
Preston & Wyre Goods Branch, Maudlands
datum
Maudland Curve Junction PR001
Maudland Viaduct PY001
Opened 1850 with flat crossing over WCML. Subsequently split by removal of flat crossing. See L&Y Historical Maps.
   
PY003
LY242
NW865
Original Preston & Wyre Goods Branch, Maudlands
datum
Off PY002.
1840-1844, flat crossing over WCML.
   
PY004
LY243
NW866
Kirkham North Junction - Blackpool Central Station
datum Preston Station
8m28c Kirkham North Junction PY001 PY007
8m78c Ribby
  Wrea Green Junction PY009
9m48c Wrea Green
11m14c Moss Side
12m23c Warton Junction
13m11c Lytham Goods Junction PY006
13m56c Lytham
  Andsell (1st)
14m75c Andsell & Fairhaven (2nd) (1)
16m51c St Annes (2)
  Cross Slack
  Gillett's Crossing
  Stoney Hill
18m34c Squires Gate
19m18c Blackpool Pleasure Beach
  Burlington Road
19m70c Blackpool South No.1
  Blackpool South No.3 Junction PY007
20m00c Waterloo Road (3)
20m27c Bloomfield Road
20m51c Spen Dyke
21m00c Blackpool Central (4)
(1) Andsell until 1906.
(2) St Annes-on-the-Sea from 1955.
(3) Blackpool South from 1932
(4) Blackpool until 1878
  KBS1
PY005
LY244
NW867
Warton Dock Branch
datum
Warton Junction PY004
Warton (Lytham Dock)
1846-1930s
   
PY006
LY245
NW868
Lytham Goods Branch
datum
Lytham Goods Junction PY004
Lytham Goods
   
PY007
LY246
NW869
Kirkham North Junction - Blackpool South
datum Preston Station
8m28c Kirkham North Junction PY001 PY004
9m15c Bradkirk Junction
10m55c Plumpton
12m47c Marton
14m34c Watson's Lane
14m55c Blackpool South No.2
14m77c Blackpool South No.3 Junction PY004
  KBS2
PY008
LY247
NW870
Kirkham North Flying Connection
datum
   
PY009
LY248
NW871
Old alignment at Kirkham
datum
Bradkirk Junction PY001
Bradkirk South Junction
Wrea Green Junction PY004
   
PY010
LY249
NW872
Bradkirk Curve
datum
Bradkirk South Junction PY009
Bradkirk Junction PY007
Pre 1903
   
PY011
LY250
NW873
Bradkirk Curve
datum
Bradkirk South Junction PY009
Bradkirk Junction PY007
1903-1967
   
PY012
LY251
NW874
old main line alignment at Poulton
datum
Poulton No.1 Junction PY001
Poulton (1st)
Poulton Junction
(diversion link up) PY015
   
PY013
LY252
NW875
old alignment of Blackpool Line at Poulton
datum
Poulton Junction PY012
Poulton No.4 Junction PY001
   
PY014
LY253
NW876
old alignment of north curve at Poulton
datum
No evidence of this in Cobb's Atlas.
   
PY020
LY260
NW880
Poulton No.3 - Fleetwood Station
datum Preston Station
14m44c Poulton No.3 Junction PY001
  Poulton No.5 Junction PY021
  (diversion end) PY012
15m58c Tarn Gate Crossing
  Thornton (1st) (1)
16m20c Thornton (2nd) (1)
16m43c Hilly Laid Crossing
17m40c Burn Naze
  Burn Naze Junction PY022
  Wyre Dock Junction
20m33c Wyre Dock (2)
  Fleetwood Station Junction PY023
20m60c Fleetwood (3rd)
(1) originally Ramper Road (1842-1843), then closed. Reopened as Cleveleys 1865 and renamed Thornton in 1905. Moved to new site 1925 and became Thornton-Cleveleys in 1953.
(2) Fleetwood (4th) from 1966.
  WPS
PY021
LY261
NW881
Poulton Curve
datum
0m37c Poulton No.4 Junction PY001
  Poulton Curve Halt
0m00c Poulton No.5 Junction PY020
  POU
PY022 Fleetwood (1st) Station
datum
Burn Naze Junction PY020
Fleetwood (1st)
1840-1851. Not joint as closed before joint ownership started in 1888.
   
PY023 Fleetwood (2nd) Station
datum
Fleetwood Station Junction PY020
Fleetwood Dock Street (2nd)
1851-1883. Not joint as closed before joint ownership started in 1888.
   

 





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