Accrington Railways - Robert Kenyon

Chambers a venue for this proposed conference, and that the Chairman and Vice-Chairman would be appointed to represent Accrington Council. December At a meeting of the Legal & Parliamentary Committee, they received a second letter from the Clerk of Oswaldtwistle District Council, which contained the resolutions passed at the recent conference on improved railway facilities for North East Lancashire. The Chairman, who had attended this conference held in the Council Chamber, expressed his own views on this subject. In accordance with the request contained in this letter, the Mayor was asked to attend another planned meeting with the Midland Railway Company in order to represent Accrington Council. ( Note the nearest railhead of the Midland was situated at Colne Railway Station, which seems an odd situation as Accrington was a vital Lancashire & Yorkshire Junction! ) Here are some details of just how many trains worked through Accrington during a 24-hour period in 1905, with passenger services in bold type . (Does not include trains from the south. All L & Y unless stated. Information from the Lancashire & Yorkshire Societies’ Records .) Key. MTuX = Mondays & Tuesdays excepted. MO = Mondays Only. MX = Mondays excepted. MOW = Mondays Only & Wednesdays. MTh = Mondays & Thursdays. MSX = Mondays & Saturdays excepted. SO = Saturdays Only. SX = Saturdays excepted. ThO = Thursdays only. WO = Wednesdays Only.

00:12 - Ormskirk to Goole Class A goods. MX 00:18 - Ormskirk to Goole Class A goods. MO 00:22 - Haslingden to Church goods. MX

00:48 - Aintree Sorting Sidings to Leeds ‘special’ express goods. MX 00:52 - Rose Grove to Aintree Sorting Sidings Class A goods. MX 01:12 - Nelson to Carnforth LNWR goods. SO 01:23 - Spring Vale to Normanton Class A goods. SO 01:22 - Colne to Church Class B goods. 01:43 - Bamber Bridge to Leeds Class B goods. MO 02:18 - Leeds to Liverpool ‘special’ express goods. MX 02:18 - Bamber Bridge to Castleton ‘fast’ goods. MX 02:27 - Crofton Junction to Blackburn Class B goods. MX 02:28 - Bolton to Accrington exchange sidings ‘express’ goods. MX 02:33 - Aintree Sorting Sidings to Leeds ‘special’ express goods. MX 02:38 - Lostock Hall to Rose Grove Class B goods. MX 02:40 - Normanton to Bolton Fish Train. MTuX 02:44 - Rose Grove to Aintree Sorting Sidings Class A goods. SO 02:49 - Hollinwood to Lostock Hall ’express’ goods. MX 02:57 - Bury to Fleetwood Class B goods. MX 03:00 - Nelson to Carnforth LNWR goods. MSX 03:12 - Normanton to Bolton fish. TuO 03:28 - Fleetwood to Bury ‘fast’ goods. MX 03:38 - Preston to Burnley ‘mail’ and goods. 03:52 - Goole to Lostock Hall Class A goods. MX 04:13 - Lostock Hall to Hollingsworth ‘fast’ goods. MO 04:18 - Aintree Sorting Sidings to Accrington Class A goods. MX 04:43 - Aintree Sorting Sidings to Rose Grove Class B goods. MO

04:48 - Hellifield to Cliviger ‘fast’ goods. MX 05:12 - Rose Grove to Lostock Hall ‘fast’ goods. 05:17 - Werneth to Lostock Hall Class B goods. MO 05:23 - Hellifield to Rose Grove ‘fast’ goods. MX 05:42 - Blackburn to Accrington.

05:47 - Miles Platting to Church Class B goods. MX 05:53 - Phillips Park to Nelson fruit, fish and goods. MX 06:05 - Accrington to Preston. 06:15 - Rose Grove to Aintree Sorting Sidings ‘express’ goods. MO 06:17 - Rose Grove to Blackburn goods. MO 06:22 - Preston to Todmorden. 06:22 - Accrington to Church ‘pilot’ goods, (locomotive comes off to shunt sidings).

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