Recent content by Preston Pilot

Thank you for the information. I'm off to Whalley viaduct with camera, let's hope for good weather this weekend.

Thanks all for the information. I took a look at the website. Interesting how the proposers intend to get over, or rather under the M6. The original bridge over the motorway went several years ago when the carriageway was increased to 8 lanes, and was replaced by a footbridge. I see they are...

Yikes! Thanks Bluenoxid for the prompt reply - not going down the bottom of the garden ever again, who knows what you may find there. The wife can do her own weeding in future!

I live close to the Blackburn-Hellifield line and when the track was upgraded 18 months ago a couple of these boxes were planted at the bottom of my garden. Ever since their implementation I seem to have had poor radio reception. Does anyone know what they are and could they be the cause of the...

Does anyone have any up to date information on the Preston Light Railway/Tramway system to be built on the trackbed of the old Preston-Longridge railway? It was all over the local media a couple of years ago but now appears to have gone quiet.

I saw several Virgin Super Voyager trains passing my home on the Blackburn-Hellifield line this weekend due to WCML route improvements. Does anyone know if this is likely to happen again this coming weekend (9-10 April) as I'd like to take a few photos, and if so, is there a timetable of when I...