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Xenophon PCDGS

Xenophon PCDGS

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Peterhead is the final closed station on this journey.
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We next move to England for the next journey.....


This is number 510 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Holcombe Brook
It follows the line of the LYR Bury to Holcombe Brook Branch Line
It then follows the line of the ELR Bury to Clifton Junction Line
It then follows the line of the Manchester and Bolton Railway
It then follows the line of the Manchester and Leeds Railway
It then follows the line of the LYR Heywood Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Liverpool and Bury Railway
It then follows the line of the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway
It then follows the line of the East Lancashire Line...using the Great Harwood Loop Line
It then follows the line of the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway
It then follows the line of the GNR Keighley to Queensbury Line
It then follows the line of the Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the LYR Hipperholme Branch Line
It then follows the line of the LYR Pickle Bridge Line
It then follows the line of the Manchester and Leeds Railway
It then follows the line of the LYR Rochdale to Bacup Line
It then follows the line of the ELR Bacup to Bury Line
It then follows the line of the ELR Ramsbottom to Accrington Line
It then follows the line of the East Lancashire Line...just one closed 1st station on this short stretch
It then follows the line of the Blackburn and Preston Railway
It then follows the line of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the Garstang and Knot (sic) End Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Knott End-on-Sea

The first closed station on this journey is Holcombe Brook
 
DerekC

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Just been reading some fascinating industrial history concerning the Wet Earth Colliery which was near Dixon Fold station on the Manchester to Bolton line. It was linked to the LNWR Clifton Branch and thence to our route between Molyneux Brow and Clifton Junction by a branch marked on an old OS map as the "Wet Earth Railway".
 
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