Accrington Railways - Robert Kenyon

2. Coal fires in waiting rooms, offices and staff rooms should not be built up too much, and should be allowed to burn low some time before the end of services. Ashes should not be raked out, but the fires allowed to burn themselves out. 3. If any passengers are found to have dome malicious damage to carriages, they must be asked to pay for these damages. Any fines collected should be sent to the Superintendent of the Line, and a report on the circumstances in which they were collected. The names and addresses of those refusing to pay should be taken down. These charges are as follows –

a) A strap for a 3rd Class window at 2s – 4d. b) A strap for a 1st Class window at 9s – 6d. c) Any carriage side window at 19s – 8d. d) Any translucent toilet window at 4s – 4d. e) A lavatory basin at £2 – 16s – 2d. f) A plug for a lavatory basin at 8d. g) A carriage mirror or picture at 4s – 4d.

4. A full set of timetables and standard advertising bills should be displayed and maintained in a neat and legible condition, where they can easily be read. Any damaged or faded material should be replaced immediately, and where appropriate exhibited behind clean glass. 5. In order to render them easier to follow the stationmaster must ensure that the name of his station is underlined in red, and this line extended beneath the times of train departures. 6. Every stationmaster will be held responsible for the orderly arrangement of advertisements, including those of W. H. Smith. These must not overlap windows or doors, or encroach upon the L & Y’s own notices. 7. It will be the stationmaster’s responsibility to see that all pubic lavatories are kept working and in a reasonably sanitary and usable condition. 8. All station windows must be kept clean and all doors kept in a proper working condition and locked when not in use. March At a meeting of the General Works Committee, the Borough Surveyor reported on his meeting with representatives from the L & Y with regard to the widening of the road bridge over the railway near to Strawberry Bank. The cost of reconstruction was estimated at £5,000-plus, to which the Railway Company stated they would make no contribution. They would however, consent to the plans of the scheme being passed, and providing the Corporation carried out the work at the most reasonable cost they could go ahead with the work! The Borough Surveyor reported he would arrange a meeting with the Company’s Engineer, to look further into this matter and also the question of providing a ‘better turnout’ from the Railway Station into Eagle Street. The L & Y’s Engineer had already expressed himself agreeable to this latter change and would recommend it to his Directors subject to the Corporation bearing the whole cost of the work, whilst giving an undertaking that the land occupied would not be regarded as public highway in perpetuity. July The General Works Committee met again and resolved the Town Clerk should draw up a formal agreement with the L & Y’s Land Agent, for the terms on which the proposed improvements to the station approach on Eagle Street could be implemented. 1913 Regular L & Y workings through Accrington at this time included, the 17:00 return Colne to Manchester newspaper vans. Utilising a rake of 2-door vans was the ‘Fruit & Veg Train’ from Manchester to Colne. This was a Code A special, timed to run at speed and having precedent over stopping passenger trains. One van was detached on its journey at Ramsbottom, Haslingden, Accrington, Burnley and Brierfield with three vans going through to its ultimate destination. The 17:05 Saturdays only from Accrington to Colne contained a wagonload of ‘skins’, which were possibly the residue from the abattoir. February At a meeting of the General Works Committee, a letter was received from the Billposting Company Ltd, pointing out the difficulties with the scheme of relocating the hoarding on Eagle Street in order to improve the approach to the railway station. Under the circumstances set out, it was resolved that they were unable to proceed with this matter. Prior to the Great War the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in collaboration with the North Eastern, commencing on June the 28 th , was offering trips to Berlin via Hull and Zeebrugge, then via Bruges, Ghent and Brussels by train. From Accrington, for a 1st Class carriage on both sides of the North

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