Accrington Railways - Robert Kenyon

Company. Mr Goodier had previously been deputy to Mr Shaw for twenty years, and had started on the railways as a guard on the East Lancs Railway. In the early hours of one November Sunday morning, twenty sheep were killed or had to be slaughtered at Accrington Station, when a Colne-bound luggage train ran into a goods train being shunted across the running lines towards the engine sheds. It hit the goods amidships knocking two wagons

containing the livestock belonging to a Burnley butcher off the rails. 1868 In a letter to the Accrington Times in July ‘Scholar’ wrote -

Sirs, There is much dissatisfaction amongst students and teachers about the amount the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway was charging for tickets on excursions for scholars. The facts are that when a group decides to go to either Chester, Windermere or York the price of a return ticket is 3/6d, when only twelve months before the fare was 3/-, and there appears to be little consistency in the charges. The return fare to Blackpool, Southport or Liverpool is 2/- despite the disparity in distances. Why should there be a difference in the fare when travelling from Accrington to Halifax, than there is when travelling from Halifax to Accrington? Is this because the Railway Company’s profits are in decline, or is it because we are not vociferous enough in our demands? One group of children were to be taken on an outing to York, but when the cost had been totalled up it was decided to go to another less distant destination. But they will soon become tired of visiting the same destinations over and over again! July A Clayton-le-Moors mother, Mrs Walsh, was returning with her son from Liverpool at 6pm on an excursion train, when the driver of the engine backed on to the carriages so hard that she was thrown across the compartment banging her head violently against the side. She was removed dazed to a 1st Class compartment, but became so ill that the train was halted at Aintree and she was taken to a hotel. She remained there for several days before she was allowed to return home. From the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways timetables published in the Accrington Times in September, it appears as though the services were reasonably sparse - ACCRINGTON to BLACKBURN & PRESTON (* denotes 3 rd Class only) Mondays to Saturdays at 06:50*, 07:45, 09:00, 09:40, 09:55, 11:45, 12:30*, 14:30 Saturdays only, 14:45, 16:40 Saturdays only, 17:00, 17:50, 18:30* & 20:45 Saturdays only, on Sundays at 07:00*, 08:05*, 13:15*, 17:15 terminates at Blackburn, 19:20* and 20:36. ACCRINGTON to BURNLEY & COLNE Mondays to Saturdays at 05:40 Mondays only, 07:45, 09:55, 12:05, 14:34 Saturdays only, 14:45, 17:05, 17:25, 17:38, 19:25 and 21:55, on Sundays at 08:05*, 15:30*, 19:25* and 21:55*. ACCRINGTON to BURY & MANCHESTER Mondays to Saturdays at 07:45*, 09:00, 09:45 Tuesdays & Fridays only, 10:00, 12:05, 14:45, 17:05, 18:30, 19:35* and 20:45*, on Sundays at 08:10, 15:20 and 19:25. ACCRINGTON to BLACKPOOL, LYTHAM & FLEETWOOD Mondays to Saturdays at 06:50, 07:45, 09:55, 12:30, 14:40, 17:00, & 17:50, on Sundays at 08:05 and 13:15. ACCRINGTON to TODMORDEN, HALIFAX, BRADFORD, LEEDS & WAKEFIELD Mondays to Saturdays at 07:45*, 09:00, 09:55, 11:40, 12:05, 14:45, 17:10 and 18:30, on Sundays at 08:00 and 19:25. ACCRINGTON to ORMSKIRK, SOUTHPORT & LIVERPOOL Mondays to Saturdays at 06:05 not Southport, 07:45, 09:00, 09:40* not Southport, 09:55 and 11:45, on Sundays at 11:55*, 14:25, 17:50* and 18:30. TRAINS to ACCRINGTON from BLACKBURN, and then going onwards.

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