Branch Lines around Preston and Lancaster

Apart from what remains of the former Preston Dock railway network that serves the Total bitumen terminal and Ribble Steam Railway and Museum, all the branch lines covered in this album were closed and lifted long ago. There are traces of the Longridge branch at Maudland Bridge through the abandoned Miley Tunnel and also occasional traces of earth works of the former branch to Knott End in open fields. Much of the Glasson Dock branch trackbed is now part of the Lancashire Coastal Way and Bay Cycleway and the bridge that carried the Lancaster power station branch over Water Street is still in place.

Reviews:

'It is a worthy addition to the existing publications on regional rail history and will reward anyone wanting to track down the ghosts of our railway past.'
(Lancaster Guardian online, 11th July 2024) 

'An excellent in-depth dealing with the historical development of the area.'
(The Railway Observer, RCTS, August 2024, Vol.94, No.1146)

'Following the characteristic Middleton Press format with maps, timetables, reproduced adverts and many photographs this book offers an interesting glimpse of lines once only glimpsed from Anglo-Scottish expresses.'
(R.Backhouse, National Railway Museum Review, Summer 2024)